Japan Win Record Fifth Asian U-19 Title | 28.10.2017
Japan defeated North Korea 1-0 in the Asian Women’s U-19 Championship final, lifting the trophy for the fourth time in the last five tournaments and a record fifth crown overall.
Riko Ueki’s solo effort settled the match 10 minutes into the second half, cutting inside and hammering the ball beyond the goalkeeper.
The result at the Jiangning Sports Centre in Nanjing, China, meant North Korea finished runners-up for the fourth successive finals.
A crowd of 843 turned out to see the hosts beat Australia 3-0 in the third place match and consequently join the two finalists in qualifying for the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup.
He Luyao scored on 20 minutes and the game was effectively over when Xie Qiwen and Jin Kun struck moments apart early in the second half.
North Korea earlier won all their group games against China, Uzbekistan and Thailand, while Japan had a 100% record in the other section against Australia, South Korea and Vietnam.
North Korea then defeated Australia 3-0 in the semi-finals, with Japan hitting five second-half goals against China.
USA to host second friendly tournament this summer. SheBelieves 2: The Reckoning | 13.04.17
There have been rumors swirling that the United States would host a second mini-tourney this summer, a companion piece of sorts to March’s SheBelieves.
CBF has confirmed that is indeed the case, with the US hosting for Brazil, Japan, and Australia’s WNTs. This tournament would be played July 27 to August 3, which falls in a FIFA window.
A lot of NWSL teams will be missing internationals at this point since this is also the window for the 2017 Women’s Euro and the NWSL calendar breaks during this period, with no club games the weekend of July 29-30. USWNT players would probably still miss games from the first week in August though depending on the actual tournament schedule; if there are any games on August 3, then players will be traveling back on a day with NWSL games.
It may be a bit of a champagne problem, but it would be nice if US Soccer didn’t actually use every possible FIFA window and instead let the WNT stay with their clubs for more than six weeks at a time. The WNT is also scheduled to play two away friendlies on June 8 and June 11 against Sweden and Norway respectively.
There’s another FIFA window from September 11 - 19 which USSF will hopefully leave untouched, as that’s when NWSL clubs will be in the final stretch towards playoffs and losing critical players would be especially unwelcome.
Philippines, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam will join hosts Jordan, plus Australia, China and Japan at the 2018 Asian Cup.
Japan, Australia and China qualified as the top three in the previous tournament.
Jordan chose to compete despite being automatic qualifiers and twice scored ten goals before their Groip A decider which they won 5-1 over the Philippines, who had already done enough to progress themselves.
Group B saw North Korea host South Korea for the first time ever and although the match was draw, the South edged the North on goal-difference for a place at the finals. Chelsea's Ji So-yun scored twice in the 4-0 win over Uzbekistan that sealed first place.
Thailand took Group C with the only goal in the decider with Chinese Taipei.
Vietnam were victorious in all four of their Group D games and secured pole position with a 2-0 win over second-placed Myanmar.
The 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup will be the 19th edition of the competition and will serve as the qualification for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, with the top five teams going through.
Turkey Announce Squad for 2019 Women’s World Cup Preliminary Round | 27.03.2017
Turkey women’s national team manager Talat Tuncel announced 19-women squad for preliminary round.
Turkey drew with Faroe Islands, Montenegro and Luxembourg on a preliminary round of qualification. The games will be played in Faroe Island during 6-11th April. 16 teams that will play the preliminary round are divided into four groups. The four teams that will finish their group as group leaders and the best second placed team will be added to the teams in the top 30 in FIFA rankings. The drawing for 2019 Women’s World Cup European qualification will be announced on 25th April, where 35 teams will participate.
AFC Women’s Asian Cup Qualifiers Draw Result | 21.01.2017
The draw tool place on 21st January in the Jordanian capital of Amman and featured Korea Republic, Thailand, Vietnam, Jordan, Myanmar, Chinese Taipei, Uzbekistan, Philippines, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Bahrain, Islamic Republic of Iran, India, Palestine, DPR Korea, Guam, Iraq, Singapore, Syria, Tajikistan and the United Arab Emirates.
AFC Women’s Asian Cup Jordan 2018 Qualifiers Draw Result
Group A: [A1] Jordan [A2] Philippines [A3] Bahrain [A4] Iraq [A5] UAE [A6] Tajikistan (hosts)
Group B: [B1] Korea Republic [B2] Uzbekistan [B3] Hong Kong [B4] India [B5] DPR Korea (hosts)
Group C: [C1] Thailand [C2] Chinese Taipei [C3] Lebanon [C4] Palestine (hosts) [C5] Guam
Group D: [D1] Vietnam (hosts) [D2] Myanmar [D3] IR Iran [D4] Syria [D5] Singapore
Japan, Australia and China PR have received automatic qualification into the eight-team finals as the three highest-ranked women’s national teams from the last AFC Women’s Asian Cup. Jordan as hosts also received automatic qualification but wanted to still participate in the qualifiers, so if they finish top of the group the runner-up of their group will also qualify.
The group winners of each of the four qualifying groups will qualify for the finals in Jordan.
The qualifiers will kick off on April 3, 2017. The finals, which will be held from April 7 to 22, 2018, will also serve as the Asian qualifiers for the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019.
Forty-Six In UEFA Qualifiers For 2019 World Cup | 09.01.2017
Forty-six countries have entered European qualifying for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, with 16 in the preliminary draw on 19th January.
Hosts France gain automatic entry to the 24-team finals and will be joined by eight other European sides. Qualifying is in three stages: the preliminary round involving the 16 lowest nations in the UEFA Women's National Team Coefficient Rankings; the qualifying group stage, for which the other 30 hopefuls gain automatic entry; and a series of play-offs which will decide Europe's eighth qualifier.
The Preliminary Round draw on 19th January will include a World Cup debut for Andorra and a first competitive tournament for Kosovo.
Those 16 entrants in coefficient order are:
Turkey, Israel, Greece, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Albania, Faroe Islands, Moldova, Malta, Montenegro, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia, Luxembourg, Andorra, Kosovo
They will be drawn into four groups of four, with the section winners and the runner-up with the best record against the sides first and third in their section progressing to the qualifying group stage. Four teams will be selected to host the mini-tournaments played on 6, 8 and 11 April.
The qualifying group stage automatic entrants in coefficient order are as follows:
Germany, England, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Netherlands, Iceland, Scotland, Denmark, Austria, Belgium, Russia, Finland, Ukraine, Wales, Romania, Poland, Czech Republic, Republic of Ireland, Portugal, Serbia, Hungary, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Belarus, Slovakia, Slovenia, Northern Ireland, Croatia, (plus five teams tbc from preliminary round)
Seven groups of five will be drawn on 25th April, with matches to be scheduled between September 2017 and September 2018. Only the group winners will automatically qualify to join France in the finals but the four best runners-up will progress to the play-offs in October and November 2018.
Continental allocations for final tournament:
Africa (CAF): 3
Asia (AFC): 5
Europe (UEFA): 8, plus hosts France
North/Central America (CONCACAF): 3 plus 1 to play-off v CONMEBOL third place
Oceania (OFC): 1
South America (CONMEBOL): 2 plus 1 to play-off v CONCACAF fourth place
2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup schedule released | 08.02.2018
The match schedule for the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, which will be held in France next year, was announced today.
fifa.com reports that Paris will host the competition’s opening match on 7 June, followed by round-of-16 matches (22-25 June) in Valenciennes, Le Havre, Reims, Paris, Rennes, Grenoble, Nice and Montpellier.
Quarter-final matches (27-29 June) wil be staged in Valenciennes, Le Havre, Paris and Rennes, semi-final matches (2-3 July) in Lyon, and the match for third place (6 July) in Nice.
The final of the FIFA Women’s World Cup will see a return to Lyon on 7 July.
Further information on the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019 can be found here.
