The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup gets underway this summer and 32 teams will compete for the first time in the tournament’s 31-year history – up from 24 in 2015 and 2019.
Another WWC landmark sees Australia and New Zealand become the first co-hosts after their joint bid successfully beat Colombia in the final round of voting when things were decided in 2020. Other bids from Brazil and Japan were withdrawn before the last stage of the process.
It is even the first Women’s World Cup in the southern hemisphere and the first for either men or women to be held across multiple confederations due to…
