2007 FIFA Women's World Cup
| 2007年女子世界杯足球赛 | |
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Official logo | |
| Tournament details | |
| Host country | China |
| Dates | 10 – 30 September (21 days) |
| Teams | 16 |
| Venue(s) | 5 |
| 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.
Venues
The venues selected to host the competition are:[2]
| Tianjin | Tianjin | ||
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| Tianjin Olympic Centre Stadium | |||
| Capacity: 60,000 | |||
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| Wuhan | |||
| Wuhan Stadium | |||
| Capacity: 55,000 | |||
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| Hangzhou | Chengdu | Shanghai | |
| Yellow Dragon Sports Center | Chengdu Sports Centre | Hongkou Stadium | |
| Capacity: 51,000 | Capacity: 40,000 | Capacity: 33,000 | |
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Teams
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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 used 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 on aggregate 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.[5] The FIFA Women's World Ranking for March 2007 was used to determine the teams to occupy the other seeded positions, B1 and C1.[6] United States were ranked first, Germany second and Norway third,[7] 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[8] 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,[8] on that occasion the USA and Sweden progressed to the knockout stages. Also in 2015 The United States and Sweden would meet in the group of death again. This time it was with Nigeria and Australia as group mates.
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 |
10 September 2007 20:00 |
| Germany |
11–0 | Argentina |
|---|---|---|
Behringer  12', 24' Garefrekes 17' Prinz 29', 45+1', 59' Lingor 51', 90+1' Smisek 57', 70', 79' |
Report |
| Argentina |
1–6 | England |
|---|---|---|
| González 60' |
Report | González 9' (o.g.) J. Scott 10' Williams 50' (pen.) K. Smith 64', 77'Exley 90' (pen.) |
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 |
11 September 2007 17:00 |
| United States |
2–2 | North Korea |
|---|---|---|
| Wambach 50' O'Reilly 69' |
Report | Kil Son-Hui 58' Kim Yong-Ae 60' |
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 |
12 September 2007 17:00 |
| Australia |
4–1 | Ghana |
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| Walsh 15' De Vanna 57', 81' Garriock 69' |
Report | Amankwa 70' |
| Norway |
7–2 | Ghana |
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| Storløkken 4' R. Gulbrandsen 39', 59', 62' Horpestad 45' (pen.) Herlovsen 56' Klaveness 69' |
Report | Bayor 73' Okoe 80' (pen.) |
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 |
12 September 2007 17:00 |
| Brazil |
5–0 | New Zealand |
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| Daniela 10' Cristiane 54'Marta 74', 90+3'Renata Costa 86' |
Report |
12 September 2007 20:00 |
| China PR |
3–2 | Denmark |
|---|---|---|
| Li Jie 31' Bi Yan 50' Song Xiaoli 88' |
Report | Nielsen 51' Paaske 87' |
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
23 September 2007 20:00 |
| Brazil |
3–2 | Australia |
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| Formiga 4' Marta 23' (pen.)Cristiane 75' |
Report | De Vanna 36' Colthorpe 68' |
Semifinals
(All times UTC+8)
27 September 2007 20:00 |
| United States |
0–4 | Brazil |
|---|---|---|
| Report | Osborne 20' (o.g.) Marta 27', 79'Cristiane 56' |
Third place match
30 September 2007 17:00 |
| Norway |
1–4 | United States |
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| R. Gulbrandsen 63' |
Report | Wambach 30', 46' Chalupny 58' O'Reilly 59' |
Final
| 2007 Women's World Cup Winners |
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Germany Second title |
Awards
The following awards were given for the tournament:[14]
| Golden Ball | Silver Ball | Bronze Ball |
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| Marta |
Birgit Prinz |
Cristiane |
| Golden Shoe | Silver Shoe | Bronze Shoe |
| Marta |
Abby Wambach |
Ragnhild Gulbrandsen |
| 7 goals | 6 goals | 6 goals |
| FIFA Fair Play Award | ||
| Norway | ||
All-Star Team
| Goalkeepers | Defenders | Midfielders | Forwards |
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Goalscorers
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
- 6 goals
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
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- 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
- ↑ Emblem for World Cup 2007 Launched, from china.org.cn, retrieved 7 July 2006
- ↑ Soccer: China Set up LOC for Women's World Cup, from Xinhua News Agency, retrieved 25 September 2006
- ↑ FIFA Women's World Cup China 2007 on target. Retrieved on October 18, 2006. Archived October 17, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Three European teams will book their spot to Beijing 2008". FIFA Women's World Cup China 2007. FIFA. 2007-09-06. Archived from the original on 2007-10-01. Retrieved 2007-10-03.
- ↑ FIFA Women's World Cup China 2007 on target. Retrieved on September 16, 2007.
- ↑ FIFA Women's World Cup China 2007 on target. Retrieved on September 16, 2007. Archived October 1, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ FIFA Women's World Ranking March 2007 Retrieved on September 16, 2007.
- 1 2 Hays, Graham (2007-04-23). "U.S. women face Group of Death scenario again". ESPNsoccernet. Archived from the original on 2011-05-25. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
- 1 2 Moved from 18 September Match schedule amended
- ↑ Moved from 19 September in Shanghai due to Typhoon Wipha, Match schedule amended due to typhoon Wipha Archived 2007-09-21 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Moved from 19 September in Hangzhou due to Typhoon Wipha, Australia-Canada and China-New Zealand moved to 20 Sept Archived October 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Moved from 19 September due to Typhoon Wipha Australia-Canada and China-New Zealand moved to 20 Sept Archived October 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Moved from 19 September due to Typhoon Wipha Match schedule amended due to typhoon Wipha Archived 2007-09-21 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Awards 2007