FIFA Women's World Cup 2023: The Official Guide

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Elsewhere, the draw between the US and the Netherlands was watched by 7.93 million viewers on Fox and Telemundo, making it the largest combined English and Spanish-language audience in the States for a Women’s World Cup group stage match. The USWNT’s round of 16 loss to Sweden pulled in an average of 2.52 million viewers and peaked at 4.07 million on Fox, down 20 per cent on the team’s equivalent fixture in the 2019 Women’s World Cup, which was played in a more favourable time slot.

In conjoined sporting, social, cultural, economic, political, and/or geographical terms, The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup: Politics, Representation, & Management aggregates an intriguing and multifaceted understanding of an event which occupies an increasingly prominent place within the global sporting landscape. As much a collective research project as an edited anthology (one or more of the editors are involved in the overwhelming majority of the chapters), The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup makes an important contribution to the sporting mega-event literature. It provides a vivid and interdisciplinary reading of the tournament’s location, structure, and representation which, albeit long overdue, finally brings the FIFA Women’s World Cup under the critical academic spotlight warranted by its manifold significance. Furthermore, without resorting to any form of uncritical romanticism, the book suggests how the Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand co-hosted 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup tournament’s more progressive aspects offer something of a counterpoint to the entrenched orthodoxies of major sporting events more generally. A must-read for anyone with a serious interest in the complexities, and transformative potentialities, of contemporary sport culture.'Heading into the quarter-finals, England's Earps said "there was more to come from them", having not shown their best aside from an impressive 6-1 thrashing of China. All told, Fifa’s Women’s World Cup accounts now have a cumulative 8.3 million followers, which the governing body claims is the largest global community for women’s soccer and sport.

The only two people who managed to get hold of Earps goalkeeper jerseys were her own parents external-link - proudly wearing the old match shirts in loyal support. The fact that the total attendance was up should come as no surprise given that this year’s Women’s World Cup was the first to be expanded from 24 to 32 teams, meaning there were an additional 12 matches. Ahead of the final, several digital milestones were reached. Content views hit 3.2 billion on Fifa’s social and digital platforms. Fifa.com, FIFA+ and FIFA+’s free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) Channels received 50 million visitors, representing a 130 per cent increase on France 2019. Gender, branding, and the Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand As One 2023 social media strategy: Winning the Women’s World CupPay-TV provider Optus Sport also reported the semi-final game was the fourth-highest rating programme ever on its streaming platform, just behind the Matildas’ quarter-final encounter against France in third. It could be seen as a missed commercial opportunity for the brand, given replicas of Earps' Manchester United kit, produced by Adidas, sold out last season. La Roja captain Olga Carmona’s winning goal was the crowning moment on an epic few weeks in Australia and New Zealand, which saw the world’s best players deliver a compelling tournament defined by major upsets, nail-biting games and huge public interest.

According to international sports betting and gambling company Entain, its Ladbrokes and Coral brands in the UK saw an average 21 per cent of bets placed by women for England’s first three games, compared to 17 per cent at the 2022 Uefa Women’s Euros and 13 per cent during the last World Cup in 2019. No one understands the thing about shaving but we do as we are told and think ‘how did it get to this?’ Why are we forced to do this now, there has to be other ways to do this. Should we refuse?

Spain are an excellent team. They quite evidently remained an excellent team even after they had been defeated by Japan. England are also an excellent team. They did something no other England team has done since 1966. Both of these statements can be true at the same time, because, unlike football, life is not a zero sum game.”

It will be the Lionesses' third straight World Cup semi-final after defeats by the USA in 2019 and Japan in 2015.They were without suspended top-scorer Lauren James, who is serving a two-match ban following her red card against Nigeria, but England did enough in front of goal to seal victory in a tough encounter. It was another speech for which Infantino was criticised, with The Guardian columnist Marina Hyde external-link calling his words "patronising women beyond belief", BBC presenter Gabby Logan said the comments were "ridiculous and reductive", while commentator Jacqui Oatley called it "nonsense". external-link Two weeks before the 2011 World Cup began, Fifa issued its current gender recognition policies, which require teams to sign a declaration guaranteeing that players chosen for the World Cup are “of an appropriate gender”. Those rules state that: “It lies with each participating member association to … ensure the correct gender of all players by actively investigating any perceived deviation in secondary sex characteristic.” Contextualising and chronicling the gender equality provisions in FIFA’s 2016 governance reforms: Situating the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023