Women’s World Cup: What to Know

Who has qualified?

Most of the favorites and usual suspects advanced easily in the original round of qualification, creating an entry list that includes both soccer names fans should recognize and a few that might raise eyebrows:

Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Morocco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, the Philippines, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States, Vietnam, Zambia.

That’s not 32 teams.

There will be 32 teams at the Women’s World Cup year, up from 24 from the last tournament in France in 2019, from 16 at the ones before that and from 12 in the inaugural event in 1991. But the field is still being set this week in New Zealand, where 10 teams arrived for playoffs to decide the last three places.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/article/world-cup-womens.html