FIFA Women's World Cup 2023

This month it's the FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. The competition takes place between 20th July-20th August and France won the last World Cup in 2019.

32 nations will compete in 8 groups of 4 teams in the knockout stages and England and Ireland are two of those teams. This is the first time that 32 nations have competed. It began as a 12 team competition in 1991 and this grew to 24 countries in 2015. Now the competition is bigger and better than ever, showing the popularity of the women's game.

You can find the full schedule, which you can also download and print at home, by clicking this link: https://www.fifa.com/fifaplus/en/articles/fifa-womens-world-cup-australia-and-new-zealand-2023-match-schedule-football-soccer

England seem to have their best chance of winning the World Cup this year having won last year's Euros. Their team is extremely strong in every position and their new coach, Sarina Weigman, has boosted the team spirit as well as having brought strength and a renewed passion and belief in their abilities. England also has the power in goal as their goalkeeper, Mary Earps, won FIFA'S Best Goalkeeper Award 2022. Apparently Mary aims to make goalkeeping 'cool' and we think that she is doing a pretty great job!

Apparently the matches will be live on BBC and ITV. Although we hope that, with the time difference, they are easy for us to watch in the U.K!

Group A

New Zealand

Norway

Philippines

Switzerland

Group B

Australia

Ireland

Nigeria

Canada

Group C