July 15, 2023
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The FIFA Women’s World Cup will starts on Thursday, 20 July with opening matches involving hosts Australia and New Zealand.

This edition of the World Cup has been expanded from 24 teams to 32. There are eight groups of four teams who play each other in a round-robin format. There will be 64 games in total.

The top two teams from each group advance to the last 16, known as the knockout stages, with the winners progressing to the quarter-finals, then semi-finals and the final.

Eight teams will be playing in the Women’s World Cup for the first time – Haiti, Morocco, Panama, the Philippines, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Vietnam and Zambia.

Games will be played across both countries – six in Australia and four in New Zealand.

The United States are ranked number one in the world and are chasing a fifth World Cup title – and a third in a row, which would be a new record. Germany, who are the only other nation to win two consecutive World Cups and are ranked second in the world.

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