2023-07-14 08:00:44
Although the Qatar World Cup To be held between November and December, summer has traditionally been the period in which the largest and most important tournaments at the national team level are held. And so it will be in the 2023 Women’s Soccer World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. The competition will take place from July 20, the day the two host teams will debut, to August 20, the date the grand final will be played.
The match that will open the contest will take place at 9:00 am on the opening day. New Zealand will face Norway, one of the favorites who are aiming to take the cup home. A few hours later, at 12:00, it will be the Australians who face off against the Irish team.
The next day, the July 21, will mark the debut of the Red in the tournament. The Spanish will play against Costa Rica at 9:30 a.m., in the third and last game of the day. Before, at 4:00 and 7:00, the Nigeria-Canada and the Philippines-Switzerland will have been played. Then we will have to wait until July 26 so that it will be the turn of ours, who will face Zambia, again at 9:30. The last match of the previous league for the Spanish team will take place on July 31 at 9:00when it intersects with Japananother of the favorites for the title, in the theoretically toughest game of the group stage.
The tournament
The first phase of the World Cup divides the 32 teams participating in the tournament into eight groups with four teams in each group. The national teams of each group face each other only once, so that each one plays three games. All the matches in this phase will be played between July 20 and August 3. The division is as follows:
Group A: New Zealand, Norway, Philippines and Switzerland.
Group B: Australia, Canada, Nigeria and Ireland.
Group C: Spain, Costa Rica, Japan and Zambia.
Group D: China, Denmark, England and Haiti.
Group E: Netherlands, Portugal, United States and Vietnam.
Group F: Brazil, France, Jamaica and Panama.
Group G: Argentina, Italy, South Africa and Sweden.
Group H: Colombia, Germany, South Korea and Morocco.
Once all the matches of the previous league have finished, the teams will have at least one day of rest before playing the round of 16, which will take place from August 5 to 8, playing two games each day. The quarterfinals will be held on July 11 and 12also with two daily clashes.
After three full days of rest, the semifinals will be held on August 15 and 16, and the grand finale will take place on August 20 at 12:00 p.m. at the Accor Stadium in Sydney, Australia, where, if all goes well, the Spanish could win their first world title in 2023.
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