FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023

[joker_josue]

From 20 July to 20 August, Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia will be the first countries to co-host a FIFA Women’s World Cup™.
This will also be the first time that the tournament will be hosted across two confederations (AFC and OFC).
64 matches will be played in 10 iconic venues, across two countries over the course of 32 days.
by FIFA

I created this topic, so that we have a place to discuss this tournament, which will most likely be the turning point in women's football worldwide.

Group A: New Zealand (hosts), Norway, Philippines, Switzerland
Group B: Australia (hosts), Republic of Ireland, Nigeria, Canada
Group C: Spain, Costa Rica, Zambia, Japan
Group D: England, Haiti, Denmark, China PR
Group E: United States (holders), Vietnam, Netherlands, Portugal
Group F: France, Jamaica, Brazil, Panama
Group G: Sweden, South Africa, Italy, Argentina
Group H: Germany, Morocco, Colombia, South Korea


Who do you think will win this Women's World Cup? Will it be the US again?

[rdluffy]

Nice thread joker

The bets are not yet released on the site I use, but should be in about 2 weeks or so.

I'm hoping for Brazil to win this title, the girls play very well and I think they can play at the same level with any other team, an important detail is that Marta will play, bringing a lot of experience to the team with the coach Pia Sundhage (she won 2 olympic gold medals with USA)
Brazil has never won the women's world cup, and this is a great opportunity since they are in good shape and last year they won the Copa America.

The favorites in my opinion are of course the USA, England (current champion of the Eurocup), Germany and Sweden.

I think it's worth to watch the matches, and obviously do some bets.
Are you also planning to watch and bet on this year's matches?

[acroman08]

Group A: New Zealand (hosts), Norway, Philippines, Switzerland

Wow, this is surprising, either I missed the news about it or there isn't enough hyping on what the Philippine women's football team achieved.

I rarely watch football(especially women's football), but since the Philipines is competing this year I'm gonna watch to at leas show my support to my fellow countrymen.

Who do you think will win this Women's World Cup? Will it be the US again?

gonna pick US, they have won the previous 2 FIFA world cup, I am pretty sure they are going to do eveything to win and dominate this year's world cup.

[joker_josue]

The favorites in my opinion are of course the USA, England (current champion of the Eurocup), Germany and Sweden.

I think it's worth to watch the matches, and obviously do some bets.
Are you also planning to watch and bet on this year's matches?

Along with the USA, without a doubt England is another great candidate to reach the final. English women's football has evolved a lot in the last two years, and they are playing very well.

I'll try to watch some games, it will be at dawn in Portugal, it won't be easy.
At least I'll try to watch a match of the Portuguese team. Especially the USA vs Portugal game, it should be a very lively game. 

[Slow death]

the games start on the 20th of July, there is still a lot of time left for the games to start and in my opinion these women's games are very difficult to predict the result, so I will not place any bets on these games and I will not watch these games either, I don't care I remember someday I was able to watch a women's soccer game, I mean watching the game for 90 minutes, the rhythm and how the women play is not something I like so I prefer to watch something else than watch women's soccer, now something that it even made me very curious what I want to see and if in these games I will see many women watching the games or not

it will be very interesting to see if the stadiums will be full of women or men, I say this because currently women have complained a lot about being valued and that they are unjustified, but is it really that women support each other that much or is it just arguments for some people gain advantages, I'm talking about politicians, so for at least a few minutes I'll watch the games just to see if there will be many women in the stadiums or not, when men play on the fields in the stadiums despite having women the number is very small which looks like that most women are not interested in soccer games, in short, we will see in this world cup whether or not women are interested

[n0ne]

We can't be sure on which team will win. As said Brazil holds the highest chance of winning the title. Same as the mens football, here also we were able to see very little countries from the Asian continent. Hope this changes in the upcoming world Cups as different sports were started to get importance against the audience getting stagnant towards particular games.

Placing bets on these matches will be surely interesting, because quite often we can see the underdog winning the match. This needs to be promoted well and given importance as the mens football. Only then we'll be able to get more good players as well as motivate women to start their football career.

[Hispo]

I think it would be wonderful if the Argentinian team could bring another Cup this occasion and continue the good streak that country has managed to get since they got the World Cup. 

For some reason, there has not been much attention given to the female participation in the World of the football, all the football idols and legends are men. I wonder whether has anything to do with the FIFA or the culture behind this sport itself.

Anyways, Ill try to keep an eye on the developments of this tournament. Go Argentina. 

[borovichok]

Along with the USA, without a doubt England is another great candidate to reach the final. English women's football has evolved a lot in the last two years, and they are playing very well.

I'll try to watch some games, it will be at dawn in Portugal, it won't be easy.
At least I'll try to watch a match of the Portuguese team. Especially the USA vs Portugal game, it should be a very lively game. 

I'm getting my bets ready and hunting for good odds in order to make huge gains from these games. There are countries that I'm convinced will go far; England has a wonderful squad, and I believe they can perform even better than our expectations; it's vital to give credit to those who deserve it, and the Englishwomen are up for it. According to the evaluations, England has a decent chance of reaching the final, as opposed to other squads that appear to be struggling. Nonetheless, we should not overlook any country in the World Cup because it is a high-level competition in which we demand the best from all participants.

[LTU_btc]

I was looking for this thread After all, it's probably biggest football event this summer. Comparing with last championship, number of participants was increased from 24 to 32. I'm not sure that's good move because level of women football isn't such good everywhere around thw world. I'm afraid that it will some big results in group stage like 10:0
I hope that someone finally will end USA dominace - 3rd World Cup in a row would be too much.

I think it would be wonderful if the Argentinian team could bring another Cup this occasion and continue the good streak that country has managed to get since they got the World Cup. 

It looks that you don't follow women football at all. Argentina isn't powerhouse here, their chances to win  is same like Zambia, Vietnam or Haiti, rated at odds @501. If Argentina will get out from group somehow, it would be almost like miracle.

[Sithara007]

It looks that you don't follow women football at all. Argentina isn't powerhouse here, their chances to win  is same like Zambia, Vietnam or Haiti, rated at odds @501. If Argentina will get out from group somehow, it would be almost like miracle.

Agreed. In women's football, Argentina is not one of the top teams. I checked the odds for this event, and it looks like USA, England and Spain are the most favored ones.

https://www.forbes.com/betting/soccer/womens-world-cup-2023/

USA: +225
England: +300
Spain: +600
Germany: +700
France: +900

I checked the schedule and was surprised to see teams like Haiti, Philippines and Vietnam. The women's edition seems to be much more diverse, when compared to the men's edition. They provided only 3 slots to CONMEBOL, and that was my only complaint. BTW, FIFA hasn't increased the number of participants for the women's world cup. Even for the 2027 event, the number of participants stand at 32 (for the men's event it has been increased to 48).

[joker_josue]

Agreed. In women's football, Argentina is not one of the top teams. I checked the odds for this event, and it looks like USA, England and Spain are the most favored ones.

https://www.forbes.com/betting/soccer/womens-world-cup-2023/

USA: +225
England: +300
Spain: +600
Germany: +700
France: +900

I'm even surprised that Spain is better quoted than Germany.
And I think it's strange that Sweden doesn't even enter that top.

In the world ranking, the top 5 consists of:
1. USA
2. Germany
3. Sweden
4. England
5. France

https://www.fifa.com/fifa-world-ranking/women?dateId=ranking_20220805

[Strongkored]

Group A: New Zealand (hosts), Norway, Philippines, Switzerland

Wow, this is surprising, either I missed the news about it or there isn't enough hyping on what the Philippine women's football team achieved.

I rarely watch football(especially women's football), but since the Philipines is competing this year I'm gonna watch to at leas show my support to my fellow countrymen.

I don't really follow women's football, so I don't really understand the strength map other than later it can be seen through betting by judging the odds for each national team that competes.
Actually, it was quite surprising for me because there are two countries from Southeast Asia that can play in the women's world cup, there is your country and also Vietnam, so this is the first time I know that their women's football is more advanced than men's which is indeed a different competition, but unfortunately, Vietnam is one group with the defending champions and two other European countries, so maybe they won't be predicted to be able to do more and this is their first participation and it's quite surprising

[Frankolala]

Group A: New Zealand (hosts), Norway, Philippines, Switzerland

Wow, this is surprising, either I missed the news about it or there isn't enough hyping on what the Philippine women's football team achieved.

I rarely watch football(especially women's football), but since the Philipines is competing this year I'm gonna watch to at leas show my support to my fellow countrymen.

I don't really follow women's football, so I don't really understand the strength map other than later it can be seen through betting by judging the odds for each national team that competes.
Actually, it was quite surprising for me because there are two countries from Southeast Asia that can play in the women's world cup, there is your country and also Vietnam, so this is the first time I know that their women's football is more advanced than men's which is indeed a different competition, but unfortunately, Vietnam is one group with the defending champions and two other European countries, so maybe they won't be predicted to be able to do more and this is their first participation and it's quite surprising

Same too..I hardly watch women football because I do see it very boring compare to when the men are playing. I will give it a try this time when I am less busy to see they can catch up my attention on the games. To know the country that will win their games,I guess one can get a little knowledge from the odds.

My country is playing and for that reason,if I don't watch any of the matches,I will create out time to watch my country's match. I think Brazil or USA might be the winner in this year women world cup because I expect that these countries are strong and are more favorite to win the cup.

[TopTort777]

I rarely watch football(especially women's football), but since the Philipines is competing this year I'm gonna watch to at leas show my support to my fellow countrymen.

I don't really follow women's footbal

Same too..I hardly watch women football because I do see it very boring compare to when the men are playing.

I also dont like to watch women football, not because it is boring, but because it is like watching football in slow-mo, and two completely on different level teams meat often. Sorry to say, but women football isnt developed at all. I have never seen a kid wearing t-shirt with famous women football player. I think no one could even name top players, or who won previous cup without googling. Since Brazil is most football playing country, I believe they gonna win.

[tusandii]

Who do you think will win this Women's World Cup? Will it be the US again?

The US has a pretty great women's soccer team and they are always growing with the emergence of new players who already have pretty good skills.
The US itself is a team that has been able to defend its championship up to 4 times and perhaps their toughest enemy will be Germany.
Even though Germany is still far below the US for achievements and playing performance, it looks like Germany will really prepare their team to win the title from the US.

[Sithara007]

WTF is this?

Never in my life, I have seen such a one-sided match in football. And Latvia is not that bad. I have watched a few matches of their men's team (during FIFA World Cup qualifiers and Euro Cup qualifier), but their performance was quite decent. But then women's football is an entirely different domain. In the last 10-15 years, I might have watched a maximum of 2-3 women's matches. But it will be bad for the game, if this discipline is dominated by a handful of teams. BTW, for viewers in India, this tournament will be shown in Sports 18 HD. In OTT, the matches will be shown live on JioTV.

[LTU_btc]

I also dont like to watch women football, not because it is boring, but because it is like watching football in slow-mo, and two completely on different level teams meat often. Sorry to say, but women football isnt developed at all. I have never seen a kid wearing t-shirt with famous women football player. I think no one could even name top players, or who won previous cup without googling. Since Brazil is most football playing country, I believe they gonna win.

Well, I think that now top players is quite well known. I think many heard about Ballon D'or winner Alexia Putellas, one of best US player Alex Morgan or Allisha Lehmann (mainly because of her Instagram.
I followed Champions league a bit and teams were playing in full huge stadiums like Camp Nou, Emirates or Stamford Bridge, not some training grounds like in past. Women football done big steps forward in recent years. Last week Champions league final was played and Barcelona won it by making comeback from 0:2 to 3:2 against Wolfsburg. But still, there was some moments and goals that you can see only in women football.

BTW, FIFA hasn't increased the number of participants for the women's world cup. Even for the 2027 event, the number of participants stand at 32 (for the men's event it has been increased to 48).

In 2019 World Cup 24 teams played, now we have 32, what is too much IMO. So far it's way too early to talk about 48 teams, there isn't so many teams in world now who can play good level football. And I also don't like decision to increase number of teams in men World Cup.

[TopTort777]

WTF is this?

Never in my life, I have seen such a one-sided match in football.

That was I think game in 2021 (already a wts) for FIFA 2023 qualification. If you scroll down to qualification (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_FIFA_Women%27s_World_Cup_qualification_(UEFA)) you would see that there were more example of devastating scores. We dont see often such scores in mens football, but in womens, teams are on completely different levels. There are like 3-5 teams that from year to year compete in finals. There will never be such things as Morocco performance in Qatar, or Germany not even getting to play-off.

[Sithara007]

That was I think game in 2021 (already a wts) for FIFA 2023 qualification. If you scroll down to qualification (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_FIFA_Women%27s_World_Cup_qualification_(UEFA)) you would see that there were more example of devastating scores. We dont see often such scores in mens football, but in womens, teams are on completely different levels. There are like 3-5 teams that from year to year compete in finals. There will never be such things as Morocco performance in Qatar, or Germany not even getting to play-off.

I guess women's football is two to three decades behind the men's variety. Back in the 1990s, we used to have such one-sided matches in men's football as well. But now the gap between the top teams and the tier-2 teams have narrowed down. Same will happen with the women's game, but it is going to take some time and a lot of investment from the FIFA. I agree that we will not witness an equivalent of Morocco reaching the semi-finals within the next decade in women's football. Because the women's game is confined to a handful of countries as of now.

[joker_josue]

I guess women's football is two to three decades behind the men's variety. Back in the 1990s, we used to have such one-sided matches in men's football as well. But now the gap between the top teams and the tier-2 teams have narrowed down. Same will happen with the women's game, but it is going to take some time and a lot of investment from the FIFA. I agree that we will not witness an equivalent of Morocco reaching the semi-finals within the next decade in women's football. Because the women's game is confined to a handful of countries as of now.

I think it is aimed at countries that have money to invest.
Contrary to what happens in men's football, where good players emerge with almost no investment, in women's football a strong investment is needed to attract people to this sport. Perhaps African countries will be in the worst position in this field, both for cultural and economic reasons.
But things are looking up, and in 10-20 years, it will be an equally popular sport.