WINNERS AND RECORDS
Posted on Jun 1, 2019 | IFFHS News Category
Picture : USA winner of the last World Cup in Canada 2015.
The FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019 will be organised in France from 7 June to 7 July 2019. We present the statistics of the competition, that began as experimental in 1991 and has expanded in size and importance ever since. The success of the 1999 finals in USA was a turning point for the great development of women football. The USA were in the Top 3 in all seven World Cups !
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- USA World Champion 1991
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- NORWAY World Champion 1995
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- USA winner 1999
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- GERMANY World Champion 2003
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- GERMANY World Champion 2007
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- JAPAN World Champion 2011
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- USA World Champion 2015
WORLD CUP RANKINGS
| Team | Titles | Runners-up | Third Place | Fourth Place | Total | |||||||||||
| USA | 3 (1991,1999,2015 | 1 (2011) | 3 (1995,2003,2007) | 7 | ||||||||||||
| GERMANY | 2 (2003,2007) | 1 (1995) | 2 (1991,2015) | 5 | ||||||||||||
| NORWAY | 1 (1995) | 1 (1991) | 2 (1999,2007) | 4 | ||||||||||||
| JAPAN | 1 (2011) | 1 (2015) | 2 | |||||||||||||
| SWEDEN | 1 (2003) | 2 (1991,2011) | 3 | |||||||||||||
| BRAZIL | 1 (2007) | 1 (1999) | 2 | |||||||||||||
| CHINA PR | 1 (1999) | 1 (1995) | 2 | |||||||||||||
| ENGLAND | 1 (2015) | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| CANADA | 1 (2003) | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| FRANCE | 1 (2011) | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Formiga (Brazil) will play her 7th World Cup in 2019 !!!
Homare Sawa (Japan)
MOST APPEARANCES
| # | Player | Appearances |
| 1 | FORMIGA (Brazil) | 6 (1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015) |
| Homare SAWA (Japan) | 6 (1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015) | |
| 3 | Kristine LILLY (USA) | 5 (1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007) |
| Bente NORDBY (Norway) | 5 (1991*, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007) | |
| Birgit PRINZ (Germany) | 5 (1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011) | |
| Karina LEBLANC (Canada) | 5 (1999*, 2003, 2007*, 2011, 2015*) | |
| Nadine ANGERER (Germany) | 5 (1999*, 2003*, 2007, 2011, 2015) | |
| Christie RAMPONE (USA) | 5 (1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015) |
*Did not play but was part of the squad.
Kristine Lilly
MOST WORLD CUP FINAL TOUR MATCHES
| # | Player | Matches | |||||||||
| 1 | Kristine LILLY (USA) | 30 | |||||||||
| 2 | Abby WAMBACH (USA) | 25 | |||||||||
| 3 | FORMIGA (Brazil) | 24 | |||||||||
| Julie FOUDY (USA) | 24 | ||||||||||
| Birgit PRINZ (Germany) | 24 | ||||||||||
| Homare SAWA (Japan) | 24 | ||||||||||
| 7 | Joy FAWCETT (USA) | 23 | |||||||||
| Mia HAMM (USA) | 23 | ||||||||||
| 9 | Bente NORDBY (Norway) | 22 | |||||||||
| Hege RIISE (Norway) | 22 | ||||||||||
| Bettina WIEGMANN(Germany) | 22 | ||||||||||
Hope SOLO and her 4 IFFHS Trophies : she is a LEGEND !
THE BEST WORLD CUP GOALKEEPERS
| 1999 | Goo HONG (CHINA) |
| Briana SCURRY (USA) | |
| 2003 | Silke ROTENBERG (GERMANY) |
| 2007 | Nadine ANGERER (GERMANY) |
| 2011 | Hope SOLO (USA) |
| 2015 | Hope SOLO (USA) |
ATTENDANCE
| Tournament | Matches | Attendance | ||||||||||||||
| Total | Average | Highest | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | 1991 CHINA | 26 | 510,000 | 18,344 | 65,000 | |||||||||||
| 2 | 1995 SWEDEN | 26 | 112,213 | 4,316 | 17,158 | |||||||||||
| 3 | 1999 USA | 32 | 1,214,209 | 37,944 | 90,185 | |||||||||||
| 4 | 2003 USA | 32 | 679,664 | 21,240 | 34,144 | |||||||||||
| 5 | 2007 CHINA | 32 | 1,190,971 | 37,218 | 55,832 | |||||||||||
| 6 | 2011 GERMANY | 32 | 845,751 | 26,430 | 73,680 | |||||||||||
| 7 | 2015 CANADA | 52 | 1,353,506 | 26,029 | 54,027 | |||||||||||