2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification

The qualification process for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup will determine all 32 teams playing for the Women's World Cup, with the hosts Australia and New Zealand qualifying automatically.[1] It is the ninth FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international women's football world championship tournament. The tournament is the first Women's World Cup to be hosted in multiple countries, the second by an AFC member association after the 1991 and 2007 Women's World Cups in China, the first to be held in the Southern Hemisphere, the first senior FIFA tournament in Oceania, and also the first FIFA tournament to be hosted across multiple confederations (with Australia in the AFC and New Zealand in the OFC).

2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
Tournament details
Dates2021 – 2022
TeamsTBC (from 6 confederations)

The field was expanded from 24 teams in the 2019 edition to 32 in the 2023 edition.[2]

Qualified teams
Team Qualified as Qualification date Appearance
in finals		 Last
appearance		 Consecutive
streak		 Previous best performance
 AustraliaHosts25 June 20208th20198Quarter-finals (2007, 2011, 2015)
 New ZealandHosts25 June 20206th20195Group stage (1991, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019)

Qualification process

After FIFA increased the number of teams qualifying for the Women's World Cup, a new distribution of slots to each confederation is expected to be announced at a later date.

Summary of qualification

Qualifying matches are scheduled to start in 2021 and end in 2022.

Apart from the hosts, 208 of 209 remaining FIFA member associations could qualify through their own confederation's qualifying process if they choose to enter. The only exception may be Russia after receiving a four-year ban from all major sporting events by the World Anti-Doping Agency on 9 December 2019, after RUSADA was found non-compliant for handing over manipulated laboratory data to investigators.[3] However, the Russian women's team could still enter qualification, as the ban only applies to the final tournament. Russia's women's footballers could still potentially compete at the tournament were they to qualify, pending a decision from FIFA. Despite that, a team representing Russia, which uses its flag and anthem, is ineligible under the WADA decision.[4] The decision is pending appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.[5]

Confederation Tournament Available slots Nations started Nations eliminated Nations qualified Qualification start Qualification end
AFC2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup?+H?+H2021November 2022
CAF2022 Africa Women Cup of Nations20222022
CONCACAF2022 CONCACAF Women's Championship20222022
CONMEBOL2022 Copa América Femenina1020222022
OFC2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup?+H11?+H20222022
UEFA2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (UEFA)[1]20212022
Total2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification?+H?+H?+H20212022
1 The Women's Euro 2021 tournament was rescheduled to take place from 6 to 31 July 2022 after subsequent postponements of the 2020 Summer Olympics and UEFA Euro 2020 to the summer of 2021 amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic,[6][7] so it may possibly be used as part of the Women's World Cup European qualifiers.
  • H: Hosts

References
  1. "Australia and New Zealand selected as hosts of FIFA Women's World Cup 2023". FIFA. 25 June 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  2. "FIFA Council unanimously approves expanded 32-team field for FIFA Women's World Cup". FIFA. 31 July 2019. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  3. "Russia banned for four years to include 2020 Olympics and 2022 World Cup". BBC.com. BBC Sport. 9 December 2019. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  4. "Explained: Russia's World Cup ban & why they haven't been kicked out of Euro 2020". Goal.com. 9 December 2019. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  5. "WADA files official request with Court of Arbitration for Sport to resolve RUSADA dispute". World Anti-Doping Agency. 9 January 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  6. "Resolution of the European football family on a coordinated response to the impact of the COVID-19 on competitions". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 March 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  7. "UEFA Women's EURO moved to July 2022". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 23 April 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
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