Previous winners USA, Germany, Norway and Japan were all eliminated before the tournament in Australia and New Zealand reached the semi-final stage. The ninth Women’s World Cup was lifted by first-time champions Spain USA had won four of the eight previous editions Germany (2), Norway and Japan the only other teams to have triumphed Spain […]
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Jorge Vilda’s side are on top of the world after a solitary Olga Carmona strike earned an impressive and thoroughly merited win over the European champions. Olga Carmona’s well-worked goal earns La Roja a maiden title Mary Earps’ heroics not enough to inspire an England side outplayed on the night Spain 1-0 England | Final […]
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The University of the Western Cape (UWC) are the 2023 Women’s Varsity Football champions after a comfortable 2-0 win over defending champions the University of Johannesburg (UJ) in the final played at the TUT Stadium in Pretoria on Saturday, 19 August 2023. It was a repeat of last year’s final but this time the roles […]
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Well, thank you, thank you very much, Carol (Tshabalala), for this welcome. It’s great – it’s great to be here. It is really fantastic, a great, great setting, many people from all over the world. Many friends, (FIFA) Council members, Minister, delegates from all the associations all over the world. The (FIFA) Legends, here in […]
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FIFA President was speaking at the Second FIFA Women’s Football Convention in Sydney Gianni Infantino requests all stakeholders to pledge to pay a fair price and respect women’s football Australia Minister for Sport said the tournament has changed women’s sport Gianni Infantino has said that the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™ has transformed the face […]
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An inspirational day one at the FIFA Women’s Football Convention in Sydney/Gadigal saw world football’s 211 Member Associations come together to hear wide-ranging presentations focussed on the overarching goal of growing women’s football. The two-day event was hosted by Carol Tshabalala and highlighted the five pillars of FIFA’s Women’s Football Strategy: Develop and Grow, Showcase the Game, […]
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The women’s varsity football final is set to take place on Saturday 19 August and it will be déjà vu as UJ face UWC in a repeat of last year’s final. The two football powerhouses were very evenly matched last year where the title was decided on penalties after ending scoreless in regulation time. It […]
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For the first time in the history of the FIFA Women’s World Cup, two Confederations co-hosted the competition –Oceania Football Confederation and the Asian Football Confederation, welcoming 30 other countries to their shores. It was also the first time that such a large number of participants had taken part in the tournament – up from 24 […]
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There have only been four winners of the FIFA Women’s World Cup, and all of them have been knocked out – which means the final on Sunday for the 2023 edition will be contested by completely new teams. The USA, who lifted the trophy a record four times, were looking to become the first nation […]
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The South African Football Association (SAFA) has made a very important appointment – that of Head of Women’s Football. They have tasked a little known Romaney Pinnock to take the role, which has been vacant for a very long time. The appointment came as the Sasol-sponsored Banyana Banyana were about to compete at the 2023 […]