The FIFA Women’s World Cup 2007 was held in China from September 10–September 30, 2007.[1] Originally, China was to host the 2003 Women’s World Cup, but the outbreak of SARS in that country forced that event to be moved to the United States. FIFA immediately granted the 2007 event to China, which means that no new host nation will be chosen competitively until voting is held for the 2011 Women’s World Cup.
The tournament opened with a record-breaking match in Shanghai, as Germany beat Argentina 11–0 to register the biggest win and the highest scoring match in Women’s World Cup history.
FIFA Women’s World Cup - China 2007
2007年FIFA女子世界杯
Official logo
Teams 16 (from 120 entrants)
Host China
Champions Germany (2nd title)
Matches played 32
Goals scored 111 (average 3.47 per match)
Attendance 1,156,955 (average 36,155 per match)
Top scorer(s) Marta (7 goals)
Cards 79 (average 2.47 per match)
Cards 2 (average 0.06 per match)
Cards 0 (average 0 per match)
Qualification
Main article: FIFA Women’s World Cup 2007 qualification
16 nations participated in the Women’s World Cup finals. As the host, China automatically qualified, having saved its automatic entry in 2003. The remaining fifteen berths were divided as follows, with at least one going to each of the six FIFA confederations: five to Europe, 2.5 to Asia (plus hosts China), two to Africa, two to South America, 2.5 to North America, Central America and the Caribbean and one to Oceania. The half spot indicates that the 16th qualifier was determined through a play-off between the third placed teams from Asia (Japan) and CONCACAF (Mexico), with the Japanese team coming out victorious.
Teams
Africa (CAF)
Nigeria
Ghana
Asia (AFC)
China PR (host nation — automatically qualified)
Australia
Korea DPR
Japan (defeated Mexico in AFC–CONCACAF playoffs)
North America, Central America & Caribbean (CONCACAF)
Canada
USA
Europe (UEFA)
Norway
Sweden
Germany
Denmark
England
Oceania (OFC)
New Zealand
South America (CONMEBOL)
Argentina
Brazil
Venues
ShanghaiChengduWuhanTianjinHangzhouThe venues selected to host the competition are:[2]
City Venues Capacity
Tianjin Tianjin Olympic Centre Stadium 60,000
Wuhan Wuhan Stadium 55,000
Hangzhou Yellow Dragon Stadium 51,000
Chengdu Chengdu Sports Center 40,000
Shanghai Hongkou Stadium 34,000 (upgrade in progress)
Squads
For a list of all players that participated in the final tournament, see 2007 FIFA Women’s World Cup squads.
Referees
For a list of the international referees that officiated at the 2007 tournament, see 2007 FIFA Women’s World Cup officials.
Coverage
Numerous TV stations across the world provide coverage of the tournament. One notable example is the Chinese-language channel CCTV-5 which is available as a free internet feed through TVUnetworks.
Monetary rewards
For the first time in FIFA Women’s World Cup history, all teams will get monetary bonuses according to the round they reach (all in USD):[3]
Champions: 1,000,000
Runners-up: 800,000
Third place: 650,000
Fourth place: 550,000
Quarter-finalists: 300,000
First round exit: 200,000
Other rewards
UEFA is using the FIFA Women’s World Cup as its qualifying tournament for the 2008 Olympic women’s tournament. The best three performing UEFA teams will qualify for the Olympics. Originally it was thought that, should England make the top three European teams, they would compete under the United Kingdom banner. However, on 6 September 2007, FIFA issued a press release indicating that England are ineligible to participate in the 2008 Olympics as England does not have its own Olympic Committee. [1]
For the determination of the ranking only first through fourth place, quarterfinal elimination or group phase elimination count. If there is a need to make a distinction between teams eliminated in the quarterfinal or between teams eliminated in the group phase these teams will meet in a play-off match. In no case will the points or goals (difference) count for teams eliminated before the semi-final.
Germany and Norway have qualified for the Olympics whereas Denmark and Sweden will play a play-off for the third Olympics spot.
Draw
The group draw took place on 22 April 2007 in Wuhan after the completion of the qualifying rounds.
FIFA automatically seeded the host and defending champions, slotting China and Germany into Group D and Group A, respectively. [3] The FIFA Women’s World Ranking for March 2007 was used to determine the teams to occupy the other seeded positions, B1 and C1.[4] United States were ranked first, Germany second and Norway third[5], so the United States and Norway were also seeded.
Also, no two teams from the same confederation could draw each other, except for those from UEFA, where a maximum of two teams from UEFA could be drawn into the same group. Group B quickly became dubbed the group of death [6] since three of the top five teams in the world were drawn in this group — the USA (1st), Sweden (3rd) and Korea DPR (5th), according to the June 2007 FIFA Women’s World Rankings, the last to be released before the tournament. The same four teams were drawn together in Group A in the 2003 FIFA Women’s World Cup[6], on that occasion the USA and Sweden progressed to the knockout stages.
Goalscorers
7 goals:
Marta
6 goals:
Ragnhild Gulbrandsen
Abby Wambach
5 goals:
Birgit Prinz
Cristiane
4 goals:
Lisa De Vanna
Kelly Smith
Renate Lingor
3 goals:
Christine Sinclair
Sandra Smisek
2 goals:
Li Jie
Cathrine Paaske Sørensen
Melanie Behringer
Kerstin Garefrekes
Aya Miyama
Isabell Herlovsen
Ane Stangeland Horpestad
Lotta Schelin
Lori Chalupny
Heather O’Reilly
1 goal:
Eva González
Heather Garriock
Collette McCallum
Cheryl Salisbury
Sarah Walsh
Lauren Colthorpe
Formiga
Daniela
Pretinha
Renata Costa
Candace-Marie Chapman
Martina Franko
Sophie Schmidt
Melissa Tancredi
Bi Yan
Song Xiaoli
Xie Caixia
Anne Dot Eggers Nielsen
Katrine Pedersen
Vicky Exley
Jill Scott
Fara Williams
Annike Krahn
Simone Laudehr
1 goal (continued):
Martina Müller
Kerstin Stegemann
Anita Amankwa
Adjoa Bayor
Florence Okoe
Yuki Nagasato
Cynthia Uwak
Kil Son Hui
Kim Yong Ae
Kim Kyong Hwa
Ri Kum Suk
Ri Un Suk
Lise Klaveness
Lene Storløkken
Victoria Svensson
Shannon Boxx
Kristine Lilly
Own goals
Eva González (for England)
Trine Rønning (for Germany)
Leslie Osborne (for Brazil)
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