The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup qualification process is a series of tournaments organized by the six FIFA confederations to decide to increase the 24 teams to 32 teams that will play in the 2023 Women’s FIFA World Cup, with Australia and NewZealand qualifying automatically as the host country.
Women’s FIFA World Cup is the 9th edition which is going to begin from 20 July to 20 August 2023 in the previous 2019 Women’s FIFA World CupUnited States was the defending champions. The matches will take place in nine scenic cities across the joint host countries.
2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Qualification Process
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In the Women’s FIFA World Cup 2023 Australia and New Zealand qualify for the tournament because as host countries the qualification process for this tournament will start on 21 and end in 2022. We have given how many slots are there in each confederation. Here is sharing the Women’s FIFA World Cup 2023 Qualification update.
AFC: 5 slots + 1 host slots
CAF: 4 slots
CONCACAF: 4 slots
CONMEBOL: 3 slots
OFC: Only host country
UEFA: 11 slots
Play-off tournament: 3 slots
For the playoff tournament, there are ten teams for 3 slots from each confederation there are following AFC, CAF, CONCACAF, and CONMEBOL. There are 2 slots, and OFC and UEFA have only 1 slot.
2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Qualification Venue
The tournament will be played in 9 different venues in Australia and NewZealand but FIFA said the tournament will use a minimum of 10 stadiums, after that on 31 March 2021, FIFA announced the final, Australia 5 cities where 6 stadiums will use for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World cup and 4 stadiums are in New Zealand.
The tournament will be played in 13 different venues in Australia and New Zealand as per them but FIFA said the tournament will use a minimum of 10 stadiums five each country, after that on 31 March 2021, FIFA announced the final, Australia 5 cities and 6 stadiums will use for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World cup and 4 stadiums are in New Zealand.
The 32 teams were divided into four pots for the draw based on the FIFA Women’s World Rankings as of October 13, 2022. Co-hosts Australia and New Zealand were automatically placed in places A1 and B1, respectively, along with the top six teams, in pot one. The next eight teams were divided into pot three, which featured the top eight teams from pot two (pot three)
The first round of 2023 Women’s FIFA World Cup 2023 Qualification matches will be scheduled from 18 October 2021 to 26 October 2021.
CONCACAF
The top 2 teams from each team will qualify for the CAF for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
Group A
S. No
Teams
Pld
Pts
1
Mexico
0
0
2
Puerto Rico
0
0
3
Suriname
0
0
4
Antigua and Barbuda
0
0
5
Anguilla
0
0
Group B
S. No
Teams
Pld
Pts
1
Costa Rica
0
0
2
Guatemala
0
0
3
Saint Kitts and Nevis
0
0
4
U.S Virgin Islands
0
0
5
Curacao
0
0
Group C
S. No
Teams
Pld
Pts
1
Jamaica
0
0
2
Dominican Republic
0
0
3
Bermuda
0
0
4
Grenada
0
0
5
Cayman Islands
0
0
Group D
S. No
Teams
Pld
Pts
1
Panama
0
0
2
El Salvador
0
0
3
Barbados
0
0
4
Belize
0
0
5
Aruba
0
0
Group E
S. No
Teams
Pld
Pts
1
Haiti
0
0
2
Cuba
0
0
3
Honduras
0
0
4
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
0
0
5
The British Virgin Islands
0
0
Group F
S. No
Teams
Pld
Pts
1
Trinidad and Tobago
0
0
2
Guyana
0
0
3
Nicaragua
0
0
4
Dominica
0
0
5
Turks and Caicos Islands
0
0
CONMEBOL
The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Qualification of CONMEBOL is managed by the Copa America Femenina 2022, which is scheduled from July-August or October- November 2022.
For qualification for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023, they provided three direct qualifying and two play-offs.
OFC
The qualification for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World’s Cup, tournament is scheduled for July-August but for some reason, it is shifted to January-February, On 4 March 2021 it was scheduled back June-July 2022.