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2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
Tournament details
Dates16 September 2021 – 23 February 2023
Teams172 (from 6 confederations)
Tournament statistics
Matches played505
Goals scored2,143 (4.24 per match)
Top scorer(s)Belgium Tessa Wullaert (17 goals)
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The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification process determined 30 of the 32 teams which will play in the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, with the co-hosts Australia and New Zealand qualifying automatically.[1] It is the ninth FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international women's football world championship tournament. The tournament is the first Women's World Cup to be hosted in multiple countries, the third by an AFC member association after the 1991 and 2007 Women's World Cups in China, the first to be held in the Southern Hemisphere, the first senior FIFA tournament in Oceania, and also the first FIFA tournament to be hosted across multiple confederations (with Australia in the AFC and New Zealand in the OFC).

The field was expanded from 24 teams in the 2019 edition to 32 in the 2023 edition.[2]

Qualified teams

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Status of countries with respect to the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup:
  Team qualified
  Team failed to qualify
  Team withdrew or suspended
  Did not enter or not FIFA member

Of the total 32 slots (29 direct and 3 playoffs), the following teams qualified directly to fill the 29 direct slots. The remaining 3 playoff slots were determined by the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (inter-confederation play-offs) held in February 2023 in New Zealand.

Team Qualified as Qualification date Appearance
in finals 		Last
appearance 		Consecutive
streak 		Previous best performance
 Australia Co-hosts 25 June 2020 8th 2019 8 Quarter-finals (2007, 2011, 2015)
 New Zealand 6th 2019 5 Group stage (1991, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019)
 Japan 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup QF winners 30 January 2022 9th 2019 9 Champions (2011)
 South Korea 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup QF winners 30 January 2022 4th 2019 3 Round of 16 (2015)
 China 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup QF winners 30 January 2022 8th 2019 3 Runners-up (1999)
 Philippines 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup QF winners 30 January 2022 1st — 1 Debut
 Vietnam 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup play-offs winners 6 February 2022 1st — 1 Debut
 Sweden UEFA qualification Group A winners 12 April 2022 9th 2019 9 Runners-up (2003)
 Spain UEFA qualification Group B winners 12 April 2022 3rd 2019 3 Round of 16 (2019)
 France UEFA qualification Group I winners 12 April 2022 5th 2019 4 4th place (2011)
 Denmark UEFA qualification Group E winners 2 May 2022[a] 5th 2007 1 Quarter-finals (1991, 1995)
 United States 2022 CONCACAF W Championship Group A winners 7 July 2022 9th 2019 9 Champions (1991, 1999, 2015, 2019)
 Canada 2022 CONCACAF W Championship Group B winners 8 July 2022 8th 2019 8 4th place (2003)
 Costa Rica 2022 CONCACAF W Championship Group B runners-up 8 July 2022 2nd 2015 1 Group stage (2015)
 Jamaica 2022 CONCACAF W Championship Group A runners-up 11 July 2022 2nd 2019 2 Group stage (2019)
 Zambia 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations QF winners 13 July 2022 1st — 1 Debut
 Morocco 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations QF winners 13 July 2022 1st — 1 Debut
 Nigeria 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations QF winners 14 July 2022 9th 2019 9 Quarter-finals (1999)
 South Africa 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations QF winners 14 July 2022 2nd 2019 2 Group stage (2019)
 Colombia 2022 Copa América Femenina SF winners 25 July 2022 3rd 2015 1 Round of 16 (2015)
 Brazil 2022 Copa América Femenina SF winners 26 July 2022 9th 2019 9 Runners-up (2007)
 Argentina 2022 Copa América Femenina third-place winners 29 July 2022 4th 2019 2 Group stage (2003, 2007, 2019)
 Norway UEFA qualification Group F winners 2 September 2022 9th 2019 9 Champions (1995)
 Germany UEFA qualification Group H winners 3 September 2022 9th 2019 9 Champions (2003, 2007)
 England UEFA qualification Group D winners 3 September 2022 6th 2019 5 Third place (2015)
 Italy UEFA qualification Group G winners 6 September 2022 4th 2019 2 Quarter-finals (1991, 2019)
 Netherlands UEFA qualification Group C winners 6 September 2022 3rd 2019 3 Runners-up (2019)
 Switzerland UEFA play-offs 1st ranking 11 October 2022 2nd 2015 1 Round of 16 (2015)
 Republic of Ireland UEFA play-offs 2nd ranking 11 October 2022 1st — 1 Debut
 Haiti Inter-confederation play-offs Group B winners 22 February 2023 1st — 1 Debut
 Portugal Inter-confederation play-offs Group A winners 22 February 2023 1st — 1 Debut
 Panama Inter-confederation play-offs Group C winners 23 February 2023 1st — 1 Debut
  1. ^ On 2 May 2022, UEFA announced that Russia was removed from Women's World Cup qualification due to their country's invasion of Ukraine, with all their earlier results considered null and void.[3] Denmark, therefore, qualified for the Women's World Cup, as no other teams could surpass them.[4]

Qualification process

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After the number of teams qualifying for the Women's World Cup was increased, a new slot allocation was approved by the Bureau of the FIFA Council on 24 December 2020. The slots for the host nations, Australia and New Zealand, were taken directly from the quotas allocated to their confederations, the AFC and OFC respectively.[5]

Summary of qualification

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Qualifying matches started in September 2021 and ended in February 2023. Matches have been played on dates within the FIFA International Match Calendar.[6]

Apart from the hosts Australia and New Zealand, 207 of 209 remaining FIFA member associations could qualify through their own confederation's qualifying process if they choose to enter. The exceptions were Chad and Pakistan, whose football associations were suspended by FIFA.[7] A third exception might have been Russia after initially receiving a four-year ban from all major sporting events by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on 9 December 2019, after Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) was found non-compliant for handing over manipulated laboratory data to investigators.[8] However, the Russian women's team could still enter qualification. The decision was appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS),[9] which ruled in WADA's favour but reduced the ban to two years.[10] The CAS ruling also allowed the name "Russia" to be displayed on uniforms if the words "Neutral Athlete" or "Neutral Team" have equal prominence.[11] Had Russia qualified for the tournament, its female players would have been able to use their country's name, flag or anthem at the Women's World Cup, unlike their male counterparts, as the ban scheduled to expire on 16 December 2022.[11][12] But earlier on 28 February, FIFA and UEFA announced Russia's suspension from all competitions following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[13][14] On 2 May, UEFA announced that Russia was no longer to continue participating in qualification, that their prior results were nullified, and that Group E continued with five teams.[15]

Confederation Tournament Direct slots Play-off slots Teams started Teams eliminated Teams qualified Qualifying start date Qualifying end date
AFC 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup 5+1 2 27 [a] 20 5+1 17 September 2021 6 February 2022
CAF 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations 4 2 43 37 4 18 October 2021 23 July 2022
CONCACAF 2022 CONCACAF W Championship 4 2 32 26 4 16 February 2022 18 July 2022
CONMEBOL 2022 Copa América Femenina 3 2 10 5 3 8 July 2022 30 July 2022
OFC 2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup 0+1 1 9 8 0+1 13 July 2022 30 July 2022
UEFA 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (UEFA) 11 1 51 39 11 16 September 2021 11 October 2022
Play-offs Inter-confederation play-offs 3 — (10) 7 3 18 February 2023 23 February 2023
Total 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification 30+2 10 172 142 30+2 16 September 2021 23 February 2023
  1. ^ Australia took part in the Women's Asian Cup but already qualified for the Women's World Cup as co-hosts.

Confederation qualification

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AFC

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Main article: 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup

As in the previous World Cup cycle, the AFC Women's Asian Cup served as the World Cup qualifying tournament for AFC members. The World Cup qualifying process was as follows:

  • Qualifying stage: The 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification competition was held between 17 and 29 September and between 18 and 24 October 2021. Teams competed for qualification for the final tournament, where they were joined by final tournament hosts India and the top three teams of the 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup, Japan, Australia, and China, who qualified automatically.
  • Final tournament: Twelve teams played in the 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup,[16] which was held from 20 January to 6 February 2022.[17] They were drawn into three groups of four teams. The top two teams of each group, along with the two-best third-placed teams, advanced to the knockout stage. The four semi-finalists qualified for the World Cup. The losers of the quarter-finals (except Australia, who qualified automatically for the World Cup as hosts) advanced to the play-offs.[18]

North Korea withdrew on 29 July 2021 from the Women's Asian Cup qualifiers due to COVID-19 pandemic-related safety concerns,[19] followed by Turkmenistan on 6 August because of pandemic-related travel restrictions.[20] In a letter to the AFC published on 8 September, Iraq decided not to take part.[21] Afghanistan also withdrew from qualification later in September as the women's team's participation was uncertain due to the Taliban takeover of the country.[22][23]

During the Women's Asian Cup, host team India was unable to play their second group stage match against Chinese Taipei due to having fewer than 13 players available, with the remaining team members testing positive for COVID-19. They were considered to have withdrawn from the competition, and all previous matches played by them were considered "null and void" and were not considered in determining the final group rankings.[24]

Knockout stage

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Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
30 January – Navi Mumbai
 
 
  China 3
 
3 February – Pune
 
  Vietnam 1
 
  China (p) 2 (4)
 
30 January – Navi Mumbai
 
  Japan 2 (3)
 
  Japan 7
 
6 February – Navi Mumbai
 
  Thailand 0
 
  China 3
 
30 January – Pune
 
  South Korea 2
 
  Australia 0
 
3 February – Pune
 
  South Korea 1
 
  South Korea 2
 
30 January – Pune
 
  Philippines 0
 
  Chinese Taipei 1 (3)
 
 
  Philippines (p) 1 (4)
 

Play-offs

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The format of the play-off round depended on the performance of Australia, who qualified automatically for the World Cup as hosts.[25] Since Australia was eliminated in the quarter-finals, the play-offs format was for the remaining three quarter-final losers to play a single round-robin play-off. The best team after three matches advanced to the World Cup, and the remaining two teams entered the inter-confederation play-offs.

Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  Vietnam 2 6
2  Chinese Taipei 2 3
3  Thailand 2 0
Source: AFC

CAF

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Main article: 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations

As in the previous World Cup cycle, the Women's Africa Cup of Nations served as the World Cup qualifying tournament for CAF members. The World Cup qualifying process was as follows:

  • Qualifying stage: 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations qualification competition was held between 18 and 26 October 2021 and between 14 and 23 February 2022. Teams competed for qualification for the final tournament, where they were joined by final tournament hosts Morocco.
  • Final tournament: Twelve teams played in the 2022 Women's Africa Cup of Nations which was held from 2–23 July 2022. They were drawn into three groups of four teams. The top two teams of each group, along with the two-best third-placed teams, advanced to the knockout stage. The four semi-finalists qualified for the World Cup. The losers of the quarter-finals played a one-match repechage, with the winners advancing to the inter-confederation play-offs.

Knockout stage

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Quarter finalsSemi finalsFinal
 
          
 
13 July – Rabat (Prince Moulay Abdellah)
 
 
  Morocco 2
 
18 July – Rabat (Prince Moulay Abdellah)
 
  Botswana 1
 
  Morocco (p) 1 (5)
 
14 July – Casablanca
 
  Nigeria 1 (4)
 
  Cameroon 0
 
23 July – Rabat (Prince Moulay Abdellah)
 
  Nigeria 1
 
  Morocco 1
 
13 July – Casablanca
 
  South Africa 2
 
  Zambia (p) 1 (4)
 
18 July – Casablanca
 
  Senegal 1 (2)
 
  Zambia 0
 
14 July – Rabat (Moulay Hassan)
 
  South Africa 1 Third place
 
  South Africa 1
 
22 July – Casablanca
 
  Tunisia 0
 
  Nigeria 0
 
 
  Zambia 1
 
Repechage
          
17 July – Rabat (Moulay Hassan)
 Botswana 0
 Cameroon 1
17 July – Casablanca
 Senegal (p) 0 (4)
 Tunisia 0 (2)

CONCACAF

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Main article: 2022 CONCACAF W Championship

As in the previous World Cup cycle, the CONCACAF W Championship served as the World Cup qualifying tournament for CONCACAF members. The World Cup qualifying process was as follows:[26]

  • Qualifying stage: The 2022 CONCACAF W Championship qualification competition was held in February 2022. Teams were drawn into six groups of five, and played single round-robin matches (two home and two away). The six group winners advanced to the final tournament to join the two highest-ranked CONCACAF teams, Canada and the United States, who qualified automatically.
  • Final tournament: Eight teams played in the 2022 CONCACAF W Championship. They were drawn into two groups of four teams and played single round-robin matches. The top two teams of each group advanced to the knockout stage and qualified for the World Cup. The third-placed team in each group advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs.

Group stage

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Group A Group B

Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  United States 3 9
2  Jamaica 3 6
3  Haiti 3 3
4  Mexico (H) 3 0
Source: CONCACAF
(H) Hosts

Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  Canada 3 9
2  Costa Rica 3 6
3  Panama 3 3
4  Trinidad and Tobago 3 0
Source: CONCACAF

Knockout stage

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Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
14 July – San Nicolás de los Garza
 
 
 United States3
 
18 July – Guadalupe
 
 Costa Rica0
 
 United States1
 
14 July – San Nicolás de los Garza
 
 Canada0
 
 Canada3
 
 
 Jamaica0
 
Third place match
 
 
18 July – Guadalupe
 
 
 Costa Rica0
 
 
 Jamaica (a.e.t.)1

CONMEBOL

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Main article: 2022 Copa América Femenina

The Copa América Femenina was held from 8–30 July 2022,[27] providing three direct qualifying places and two play-off places for the Women's World Cup.[5] The top two teams from each group advanced to the knockout stage, from which the winners of the semi-final and third place matches qualified for the World Cup. The loser of the third place match advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs. The third-placed teams from each group played a fifth place play-off, the winner of which also advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs.

Knockout stage

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Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
25 July – Bucaramanga
 
 
 Colombia1
 
30 July – Bucaramanga
 
 Argentina0
 
 Colombia0
 
26 July – Bucaramanga
 
 Brazil1
 
 Brazil2
 
 
 Paraguay0
 
 
Fifth place match
 
  
 
24 July – Armenia
 
 
 Chile (p)1 (4)
 
 
 Venezuela1 (2)
 
 
Third place match
 
  
 
29 July – Armenia
 
 
 Argentina3
 
 
 Paraguay1
 

OFC

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Main article: 2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup

The OFC Women's Nations Cup was held from 13 to 30 July, with Fiji hosting the tournament.[28] It was originally scheduled for July and August 2022, but was shifted to January and February 2022 to accommodate changes to the FIFA Women's International Match Calendar.[29] It was subsequently pushed back to July due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

New Zealand did not take part as they had already qualified for the World Cup as co-hosts, and American Samoa opted not to participate due to continuing difficulties related to the pandemic. The remaining nine teams were ranked according to the 25 March world rankings and drawn into three groups on 10 May, from which the top two teams in each group and the top two third place teams advanced to the knockout stage.[30] Papua New Guinea advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs as tournament winners.

Knockout stage

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Quarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
 23 July 2022 – Suva
 
 
 Samoa 4
 
 27 July 2022 – Suva
 
 New Caledonia2
 
  Samoa 0
 
 23 July 2022 – Suva
 
  Papua New Guinea3
 
 Papua New Guinea (p) 3 (3)
 
 30 July 2022 – Suva
 
  Tonga3 (2)
 
  Papua New Guinea 2
 
 24 July 2022 – Suva
 
  Fiji1
 
 Fiji 2
 
 27 July 2022 – Suva
 
  Cook Islands 0
 
  Fiji 3
 
 24 July 2022 – Suva
 
  Solomon Islands 1 Third place
 
 Tahiti 0
 
 30 July 2022 – Suva
 
 Solomon Islands 1
 
  Samoa 1 (5)
 
 
  Solomon Islands (p) 1 (6)
 

UEFA

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Main article: 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (UEFA)

The World Cup qualifying process was played in two stages:[31]

  • Group stage: 51 teams were drawn into nine groups of five or six teams, where each group played a home-and-away round-robin format. The nine group winners qualified directly for the World Cup, while the nine runners-up advanced to the play-offs.
  • Play-offs: The nine teams played two knockout rounds of single-leg matches, with the best three runners-up entering in the second round. Among the three second round play-off winners, the two teams with the best combined records in the group stage (8 matches, excluding the ones against sixth-placed teams for those from groups with six teams) and second round play-offs (1 match) qualified for the World Cup, while the team with the lowest combined record (group stage plus second play-off round) entered the inter-confederation play-offs.

Group stage

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Group A Group B Group C
Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  Sweden 8 22
2  Republic of Ireland 8 17
3  Finland 8 10
4  Slovakia 8 8
5  Georgia 8 0
Source: UEFA
Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  Spain 8 24
2  Scotland 8 16
3  Ukraine 8 10
4  Hungary 8 9
5  Faroe Islands 8 0
Source: UEFA
Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  Netherlands 8 20
2  Iceland 8 18
3  Czech Republic 8 11
4  Belarus 8 7
5  Cyprus 8 1
Source: UEFA
Group D Group E Group F
Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  England 10 30
2  Austria 10 22
3  Northern Ireland 10 19
4  Luxembourg 10 9
5  North Macedonia 10 6
6  Latvia 10 3
Source: UEFA
Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  Denmark 8 24
2  Bosnia and Herzegovina 8 11
3  Montenegro 8 9
4  Azerbaijan 8 7
5  Malta 8 7
6  Russia 0 0
Source: UEFA
Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  Norway 10 28
2  Belgium 10 22
3  Poland 10 20
4  Albania 10 10
5  Kosovo 10 7
6  Armenia 10 0
Source: UEFA
Group G Group H Group I
Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  Italy 10 27
2  Switzerland 10 25
3  Romania 10 19
4  Croatia 10 10
5  Lithuania 10 5
6  Moldova 10 1
Source: UEFA
Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  Germany 10 27
2  Portugal 10 22
3  Serbia 10 21
4  Turkey 10 10
5  Israel 10 9
6  Bulgaria 10 0
Source: UEFA
Pos Team
 Pld Pts
1  France 10 30
2  Wales 10 20
3  Slovenia 10 18
4  Greece 10 13
5  Estonia 10 6
6  Kazakhstan 10 0
Source: UEFA

Play-offs

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Round 1Round 2
              
6 October 2022 – Vizela
 Portugal2
11 October 2022 – Paços de Ferreira
 Belgium1
 Portugal (a.e.t.)4
 Iceland1
6 October 2022 – Glasgow
 Scotland (a.e.t.)1
11 October 2022 – Glasgow
 Austria0
 Scotland0
 Republic of Ireland1
6 October 2022 – Cardiff
 Wales (a.e.t.)1
11 October 2022 – Zürich
 Bosnia and Herzegovina0
 Switzerland (a.e.t.)2
 Wales1

Ranking of play-off winners

To rank the three play-off winners, their results in their respective groups and round 2 of the play-offs were combined. As some groups had five teams and others had six, any group matches against teams who finished sixth in their groups were discounted; also, as not all teams played in both play-off rounds, results in round 1 of play-offs were not counted either. As a result, nine matches played by each team (eight in the group stage and one in round 2 of the play-offs) were counted for the purposes of determining the ranking. The two higher-placed winners qualified for the Women's World Cup and the lowest-placed winner advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs.[33][34]

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1  Switzerland 9 7 1 1 25 5 +20 22 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup
2  Republic of Ireland 9 6 2 1 27 4 +23 20
3  Portugal 9 6 1 2 22 10 +12 19 Inter-confederation play-offs
Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Counting only matches against teams ranked first to fifth in the group and in play-offs round 2, 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Away goals scored; 5) Wins; 6) Away wins; 7) Lower disciplinary points total; 8) UEFA national team coefficient ranking.

Inter-confederation play-offs

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Main article: 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (inter-confederation play-offs)

The final three spots at the FIFA Women's World Cup were decided through a ten-team play-off tournament. The tournament was used as a test event for New Zealand to host prior to the Women's World Cup.

In the play-off draw, four teams were seeded into groups based on the FIFA Women's World Rankings, with a maximum of one seeded team per confederation. Teams from the same confederation were not drawn into the same group. The winner of each group qualified for the FIFA Women's World Cup.[5]

Group A

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Semi-finalFinal
      
22 February 2023 – Hamilton
 Portugal2
18 February 2023 – Hamilton
 Cameroon1
 Cameroon2
 Thailand0

Group B

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Semi-finalFinal
      
22 February 2023 – Auckland
 Chile1
18 February 2023 – Auckland
 Haiti2
 Senegal0
 Haiti4

Group C

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Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
19 February 2023 – Hamilton
 
 
 Chinese Taipei2 (2)
 
23 February 2023 – Hamilton
 
 Paraguay (p)2 (4)
 
 Paraguay0
 
19 February 2023 – Auckland
 
 Panama1
 
 Papua New Guinea0
 
 
 Panama2
 

Top goalscorers

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There were 2,143 goals scored in 505 matches, for an average of 4.24 goals per match.

17 goals

15 goals

14 goals

13 goals

12 goals

11 goals

10 goals

9 goals

8 goals

7 goals

6 goals

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