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2023 FIFA Women's World Cup Qualification (inter-confederation Play-offs)
The inter-confederation play-offs of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification determined the final three qualification spots for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. The play-off tournament was used as a test event for New Zealand to host prior to the Women's World Cup. It took place from 18 to 23 February 2023, and featured ten teams split into three groups, with the winner of each group qualifying for the Women's World Cup. New Zealand and guests Argentina women's national football team, Argentina also played Exhibition game, friendlies against participating teams and each other as part of the event. Format On 24 December 2020, the Bureau of the FIFA Council approved the slot allocation and format of the play-off tournament. *Asian Football Confederation, AFC (Asia): 2 slots *Confederation of African Football, CAF (Africa): 2 slots *CONCACAF (North, Central America and the Caribbean): 2 slots *CONMEBOL (South America): 2 slots *Oceania Football Confederation, OFC (Oceania): 1 sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabrielle Onguéné
Gabrielle Aboudi Onguéné (born 25 February 1989) is a Cameroonian footballer who plays for ZFK CSKA Moscow, CSKA Moscow in the Russian women's football championship, Russian Championship and the Cameroon women's national football team, Cameroon national team.Profile at soccerway She previously played for WFC Rossiyanka, Rossiyanka. Early life Born in Douala, Aboudi Onguéné began playing football with boys in her neighborhood as a child. She was spotted and recruited to play for girls' club, Ngondi Nkam Yabassi. While playing in a tournament for the club, she was spotted by Canon Yaoundé and began playing for the team in 2005. Club career ...
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UEFA
The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; ; ) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs football, futsal and beach soccer, beach football in Europe and the List of transcontinental countries#Asia and Europe, transcontinental countries of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Kazakhstan, as well as the West Asian countries of Cyprus, Armenia and Israel. UEFA consists of 55 national association List of men's national association football teams#UEFA (Europe), members. Since 2022, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, FIFA and UEFA suspended all Russian national teams and clubs from any FIFA and UEFA competitions. UEFA consists of the national football associations of Europe, and runs national and club competitions including the UEFA European Championship, European Championship, UEFA Nations League, Nations League, UEFA Champions League, Champions League, UEFA Europa League, Europa League, UEFA Conference League, Conference League, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Harbour Stadium
North Harbour Stadium is a stadium situated in Albany, in North Shore City, New Zealand. It was opened in 1997, after nearly a decade of discussion, planning and construction. Rugby union, association football, rugby league, and baseball are all played on the main ground. The neighbouring oval plays host to the senior cricket matches. The stadium also hosts large open-air concerts. History It is the home ground for Moana Pasifika, which became the first Super Rugby team to make the stadium its fulltime home with an announcement in 2024. The team will begin playing its home games at the ground in 2025. Since the stadium opened in 1997, it has been used by the North Harbour side in the National Provincial Championship, taking over from North Harbour's previous home venue, Onewa Domain in Takapuna. From 1997 to 1998 it hosted home games for the Chiefs when the Hamilton-based side represented North Harbour for a short time. In 1999, North Harbour fell under the Auckland Blues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waikato Stadium
FMG Stadium Waikato is a major sporting and cultural events venue in Hamilton, New Zealand, with a total capacity of 25,800. Four areas contribute to this capacity: The Brian Perry Stand holding 12,000, the WEL Networks Stand holding 8,000, the Goal Line Terrace holding 800 and the Greenzone can hold up to 5,000 people. The capacity can be extended, however, by temporarily adding 5,000 seats to the Goal Line Terrace area. The stadium, owned by the Hamilton City Council, regularly hosts two rugby union teams: *The Chiefs in the Southern Hemisphere Super Rugby competition. *The Waikato side in the country's top provincial rugby competition, the Mitre 10 Cup. History In 1925, Rugby Park opened. In 1930, a rugby union match between Waikato and Great Britain was first broadcast on the radio in Hamilton. In 1937, South Africa visited Hamilton in front of a then record crowd of 13,000. One of the most memorable games at the ground was in 1956 when Waikato beat the visiting Spri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland
Auckland ( ; ) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. It has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region, the area governed by Auckland Council, which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of as of It is the List of cities in New Zealand, most populous city of New Zealand and the List of cities in Oceania by population, fifth-largest city in Oceania. The city lies between the Hauraki Gulf to the east, the Hunua Ranges to the south-east, the Manukau Harbour to the south-west, and the Waitākere Ranges and smaller ranges to the west and north-west. The surrounding hills are covered in rainforest and the landscape is dotted with 53 volcanic centres that make up the Auckland Volcanic Field. The central part of the urban area occupies a narrow isthmus between the Manukau Harbour on the Tasman Sea and the Waitematā Harbour on the Pacific Ocean. Auckland is one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamilton, New Zealand
Hamilton (, ) is an inland city in the North Island of New Zealand. Located on the banks of the Waikato River, it is the seat and most populous city of the Waikato, Waikato region. With a territorial population of , it is the country's List of cities in New Zealand, fourth most-populous city. Encompassing a land area of about , Hamilton is part of the wider Hamilton Urban Area, which also encompasses the nearby towns of Ngāruawāhia, Te Awamutu and Cambridge, New Zealand, Cambridge. In 2020, Hamilton was awarded the title of most beautiful large city in New Zealand. Hamilton is now considered the fastest growing city in the country. The area now covered by the city began as the site of several Māori people, Māori villages, including Kirikiriroa, from which the city takes its Māori name. By the time English settlers arrived, most of these villages, which sat beside the Waikato River, were abandoned as a result of the Invasion of Waikato and New Zealand land confiscations, land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 FIFA Women's World Cup Qualification – UEFA Play-offs
The UEFA play-offs of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification competition involved the runners-up from all nine groups in the group stage. The play-offs consisted of two rounds of single-leg ties. The two best play-off winners, the Republic of Ireland and Switzerland, qualified for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, while the third winner, Portugal, advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs. Ranking of second-placed teams Because some groups had six teams and others had five, matches against the sixth place team in each group are discounted. As a result, eight matches played by each team are counted for the purposes of determining the ranking. Draw The draw took place on 9 September 2022 at 13:30 CEST. The nine teams were drawn into six ties without any seeding, with the first team drawn in each tie to be the home team of the single-leg matches. *Round 1: The worst six runners-up will enter in round 1 and were drawn into three ties. *Round 2: The best three runners-up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 FIFA Women's World Cup Qualification (UEFA)
The European 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification, qualifying competition for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup was a women's association football, women's football competition that determined the eleven UEFA teams which directly qualified for the final tournament in Australia and New Zealand, and the one team which advanced to the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (inter-confederation play-offs), inter-confederation play-offs. Fifty-one of the 55 UEFA member national teams entered the qualifying competition, with Cyprus women's national football team, Cyprus making their World Cup qualifying debut and Luxembourg women's national football team, Luxembourg appearing in a group stage for the first time ever. Format The qualifying competition consists of two rounds: *Group stage: The 51 teams were drawn into nine groups of five or six teams, where each group was played in a home-and-away round-robin format. The nine group winners qualified directly for the final tourname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup
The 2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup was the 12th edition of the OFC Women's Nations Cup (also known as the OFC Women's Championship), the quadrennial international football championship organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) for the women's national teams of the Oceanian region. It was originally scheduled from July to August 2022, but was moved to January and February to accommodate changes to the FIFA Women's International Match Calendar. The OFC announced on 4 March 2021 that it was pushed back due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and on 29 April 2022 announced that Fiji would host the tournament from 13 to 30 July. The tournament served as Oceania's qualifiers to the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. With New Zealand having already qualified automatically for the World Cup as a co-host, they did not participate in the tournament. The winner advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs. New Zealand were the reigning champions, but they did no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Copa América Femenina
The 2022 Copa América Femenina was the 9th edition of the main international women's association football, women's football championship in South America, the Copa América Femenina, for national teams affiliated with CONMEBOL. The competition was held in Colombia from 8 to 30 July 2022. The tournament acted as South American 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification, qualification for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, providing three direct 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification, qualifying places and two 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (inter-confederation play-offs), play-off places for the Women's World Cup, and three more places for the 2023 Pan American Games, 2023 Pan American Games women's football tournament in Chile (in addition to Chile women's national football team, Chile who qualified automatically as hosts). In addition, the two finalists qualified for the Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, women' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 CONCACAF W Championship
The 2022 CONCACAF W Championship was the 11th edition of the CONCACAF W Championship, the quadrennial international Women's association football, women's football championship contested by the senior List of women's national association football teams, women's national teams of the member associations of CONCACAF, the regional governing body of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Eight teams played in the tournament, which took place from 4 to 18 July 2022 in Mexico. The United States women's national soccer team, United States emerged as the winner, defeating Canada women's national soccer team, Canada 1–0 in the final. The tournament served as the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification, CONCACAF qualifiers to the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, as well as for the football tournaments at the 2024 Summer Olympics in France and the 2023 Pan American Games in Chile. The top two teams in each of the two groups qualified for the Women's Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Women's Africa Cup Of Nations
The 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations (, ), (also referred to as WAFCON 2022) officially known as the 2022 TotalEnergies Women's Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship purposes, was the 14th edition of the biennial African international women's football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), hosted by Morocco from 2 to 23 July 2022. The tournament also doubled as the African qualifiers to the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. The top four teams qualified for the World Cup, and two more teams advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs. Nigeria were the three-time defending champions, having won the previous 3 editions in 2014, 2016 and 2018; but had its journey ended in the semi-finals after losing to the hosts Morocco on penalties, making it for the first time neither Nigeria or Equatorial Guinea featured in the final. The hosts went on to lose to South Africa in the final, as South Africa claimed its first ever continental trophy after five previou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
