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2007 FIFA Women's World Cup

2007年女子世界杯足球赛 2007 Nián nǚzǐ shìjièbēi zúqiú sài
Tournament details
Host country	China
Dates	10–30 September
Teams	16 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	5 (in 5 host cities)
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(s)	Marta
Best goalkeeper	Nadine Angerer
← 2003 2011 →

The 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, the fifth edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, was an international association football competition for women held in China from 10 to 30 September 2007.^[1] Originally, China was to host the 2003 edition, 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 meant 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 retain their title.

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 were:^[2]

Tianjin	Shanghai Chengdu Wuhan Tianjin Hangzhou 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup (China)
Tianjin Olympic Centre Stadium
Capacity: 60,000
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

Squads

Referees

Draw

The group draw took place on 22 April 2007 in Wuhan after the completion of the qualifying rounds.^[3]

FIFA automatically seeded the host and defending champions, slotting China and Germany into Group D and Group A, respectively.^[4] 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. 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.

Group stage

All times are local (UTC+8).

Tiebreakers

Teams are ranked on the following criteria:

1. Greater number of points in all group matches


2. Goal difference in all group matches


3. Greater number of goals scored in all group matches


4. Greatest number of points in matches between teams


5. Goal difference in matches between teams


6. Greatest number of goals scored in matches between teams


7. Fair play criteria based on red and yellow cards received


8. Drawing of lots by the FIFA Organising Committee

Group A

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

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

Group C

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

Group D

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

(H): Host.

Knockout stage

Bracket

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

All times are local (UTC+8).

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

(All times UTC+8)

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Third place play-off

Final

Awards

The following awards were given for the tournament:^[13]

Golden Ball	Silver Ball	Bronze Ball
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
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

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.^{[citation needed]}

Goalscorers sorted by number of goals (high-low) and team (alphabetically)

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) Source[citation needed]

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

Table source^{[citation needed]}

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):^[14]

• 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.^[15]
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.

References and notes

External links

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


• FIFA Technical Report