FIFA Women's World Cup 2023: Schedule, Fixtures, Teams; All You Need to Know!

The ninth edition of the highly anticipated sporting tournament has made a buzz all over the world. FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 is all geared up and was kickstarted in New Zealand on 20 July 2023. The FIFA Women's World Cup is an international association football competition played every four years between women's National teams and hosted by Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). Teams from all over the world compete in the tournament to become world champions.

In 1991, China hosted the inaugural Women's World Cup, with the United States taking home the title. Since then, the competition has become increasingly popular and important to women's sports. The FIFA Women's World was most recently held in France in 2019. The United States won the competition, which had 24 teams, and secured the fourth overall title.

This year's tournament is going be to collaboratively hosted by Australia and New Zealand. Due to Australia's membership in the Asian Confederation and New Zealand's in the Oceanian Confederation, it will be the first ever Senior World Cup to be held across multiple confederations and the first FIFA Women's World Cup to have more than one host nation. The teams have also expanded to 32 team's which was previously 24 teams.

New Zealand will play its first game at Eden Park in Auckland on July 20, 2023, whereas the finals will be held at the Sydney Olympic Stadium in Australia on August 20, 2023.

Witness the Mega Tournament of FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 in India

The FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 will be live telecasted over the internet in India on FanCode and Indian football enthusiasts will also be privileged to watch this historic tournament on DD Sports as the state broadcasters Doordarshan has bought the television rights of the tournament across India.

Format of the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023

Eight significant groups have been formed, from Group A to Group H, from the 32 participating teams with four teams in each group. The format of the tournament will be a round-robin format where each team in a particular group will play with every other team in that group once. The top two teams from each group will then qualify for the knockout round of 16 teams. Following the Round of 16, there will be quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals.

Groups and Teams of the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023

Venues of FIFA Women's World Cup 2023

A total of ten stadiums will host the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup matches. Australia has been allocated six stadiums, and New Zealand has four. The stadiums which will host the matches are mentioned below:

1. Stadium Australia (Sydney)

2. Sydney Football Stadium (Sydney)

3. Lang Park (Brisbane)

4. Melbourne Rectangular Stadium (Melbourne)

5. Perth Rectangular Stadium (Perth)

6. Hindmarsh Stadium (Adelaide)

7. Eden Park (Auckland)

8. Wellington Regional Stadium (Wellington)

9. Forsyth Barr Stadium (Dunedin)

10. Waikato Stadium (Hamilton)

Schedule of FIFA Women's World Cup 2023