2007 FIFA Women's World Cup

2007 FIFA Women's World Cup

2007年女子世界杯足球赛
Official logo
Tournament details
Host country	China
Dates	10 – 30 September (21 days)
Teams	16
Final positions
Champions	Germany (2nd title)
Runners-up	Brazil
Third place	United States
Fourth place	Norway
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	111 (3.47 per match)
Attendance	1,156,955 (36,155 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Marta (7 goals)
Best player	Marta
Best goalkeeper	Nadine Angerer

The FIFA Women's World Cup 2007, the fifth edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, was an international association football competition for women held in China from September 10, 2007 – 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 was chosen competitively until the voting was 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. The tournament ended with Germany defeating Brazil 2–0 in the final, having never surrendered a goal in the entire tournament. The Germans became the first national team in FIFA Women's World Cup history to obtain two consecutive titles.

Teams

Africa (CAF)  Nigeria  Ghana Asia (AFC)  China PR (host nation – automatically qualified)  Australia  North Korea  Japan (defeated Mexico in AFC–CONCACAF playoffs) North America, Central America & Caribbean (CONCACAF)  Canada  United States

Europe (UEFA)  Norway  Sweden  Germany  Denmark  England Oceania (OFC)  New Zealand South America (CONMEBOL)  Argentina  Brazil

Venues

The venues selected to host the competition are:^[2]

Shanghai Chengdu Wuhan Tianjin Hangzhou 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup (China)
Tianjin	Wuhan	Hangzhou	Chengdu	Shanghai
Tianjin Olympic Centre Stadium	Wuhan Stadium	Yellow Dragon Stadium	Chengdu Sports Center	Hongkou Stadium
Capacity: 60,000	Capacity: 55,000	Capacity: 51,000	Capacity: 40,000	Capacity: 33,000

Squads

Referees

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 received monetary bonuses according to the round they reached (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.^[4] 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 qualified for the Olympics at the World Cup, whereas Denmark and Sweden had to enter a play-off for the third Olympics spot. Sweden won both legs of the playoffs with a total of 7−3 agg. to qualify for the Olympics.

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.^[5] United States were ranked first, Germany second and Norway third,^[6] 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^[7] 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,^[7] on that occasion the USA and Sweden progressed to the knockout stages.

First round

All times are local (UTC+8).

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Germany	3	2	1	0	13	0	+13	7
England	3	1	2	0	8	3	+5	5
Japan	3	1	1	1	3	4	−1	4
Argentina	3	0	0	3	1	18	−17	0

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Group B

The four teams were also paired in the same group in 2003.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
United States	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7
North Korea	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	4
Sweden	3	1	1	1	3	4	−1	4
Nigeria	3	0	1	2	1	4	−3	1

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Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Norway	3	2	1	0	10	4	+6	7
Australia	3	1	2	0	7	4	+3	5
Canada	3	1	1	1	7	4	+3	4
Ghana	3	0	0	3	3	15	−12	0

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Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Brazil	3	3	0	0	10	0	+10	9
China PR	3	2	0	1	5	6	−1	6
Denmark	3	1	0	2	4	4	0	3
New Zealand	3	0	0	3	0	9	−9	0

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Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	September 22 — Wuhan
	Germany	3
					September 26 — Tianjin
	North Korea	0
					Germany	3
	September 23 — Wuhan
					Norway	0
	Norway	1
									September 30 — Shanghai
	China PR	0
									Germany	2
	September 22 — Tianjin
									Brazil	0
	United States	3
					September 27 — Hangzhou
	England	0
					United States	0			Third place
	September 23 — Tianjin
					Brazil	4			September 30 — Shanghai
	Brazil	3
									Norway	1
	Australia	2
									United States	4

All times are local (UTC+8).

Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

(All times UTC+8)

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Third place match

Final

Awards

Golden Shoe Winner	Golden Ball Winner	FIFA Fair Play Trophy	Best Goalkeeper
Marta	Marta	Norway	Nadine Angerer

All-Star Team

Goalkeepers	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Nadine Angerer Bente Nordby	Ariane Hingst Li Jie Ane Stangeland Horpestad Kerstin Stegemann	Daniela Formiga Kelly Smith Renate Lingor Ingvild Stensland Kristine Lilly	Lisa De Vanna Marta Cristiane Birgit Prinz

Goal scorers

Marta of Brazil won the Golden Shoe award for scoring seven goals. In total, 111 goals were scored by 64 different players, with three of them credited as own goals.

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 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)

Tournament ranking

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Germany	6	5	1	0	21	0	+21	16
2	Brazil	6	5	0	1	17	4	+13	15
3	United States	6	4	1	1	12	7	+5	13
4	Norway	6	3	1	2	12	11	+1	10
Eliminated in the quarter-finals
5	China PR	4	2	0	2	5	7	–2	6
6	Australia	4	1	2	1	9	7	+2	5
7	England	4	1	2	1	8	6	+2	5
8	North Korea	4	1	1	2	5	7	–2	4
Eliminated at the group stage
9	Canada	3	1	1	1	7	4	+3	4
10	Japan	3	1	1	1	3	4	–1	4
10	Sweden	3	1	1	1	3	4	–1	4
12	Denmark	3	1	0	2	4	4	0	3
13	Nigeria	3	0	1	2	1	4	–3	1
14	New Zealand	3	0	0	3	0	9	–9	0
15	Ghana	3	0	0	3	3	15	–12	0
16	Argentina	3	0	0	3	1	18	–17	0

References and notes

External links

• FIFA Women's World Cup China 2007, FIFA.com
• FIFA Technical Report

2007 FIFA Women's World Cup Stages Group A Group B Group C Group D Knockout stage Final General information Qualification Squads Officials

FIFA Women's World Cup Tournaments China 1991 Sweden 1995 United States 1999 United States 2003 China 2007 Germany 2011 Canada 2015 France 2019 2023 Qualification 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 Finals 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 Squads 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 Team appearances Player appearances Goalscorers Records

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