THE DRAW for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup takes place in Auckland, New Zealand on Saturday morning with the Republic of Ireland set to discover their opponents.Manager Vera Pauw will be present at the Draw, where her team is placed in Pot 3 having qualified for the tournament for the first time following a Qualifying Play-Off victory over Scotland.The tournament, which will be staged by Australia and New Zealand, will kick off next summer on July 20th and run through to the final on August 20th.
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - OCTOBER 11: Katie McCabe of Republic of Ireland celebrates with teammates . (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Imagesd=DRAWThe Draw starts at 19:30 local time (7:30am Irish Time) on Saturday 22 October at Aotea Centre, Auckland.You can watch the Draw live on RTÉ2 or online via FIFA+ DRAW PROCEDURE1. The four pots representing the teams will be labelled team pots 1 to 4. In each team pot, there will be eight balls with the country name for each respective qualified team, including in team pot 4, three placeholders for the play-off tournament winners. 2. The eight pots representing the groups will be labelled groups A to H. In each pot, there will be four balls with the group position numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 for each respective group. 3. The draw will start by drawing a team from pot 1 and will end by drawing the last team from pot 4. Each team pot will be completely emptied before moving on to the next pot. 4. A ball from a team pot will be drawn, followed by a ball from one of the group pots, thus determining the position to which the respective team is allocated within the group.DRAW CONSTRAINTS1. In pot 1, New Zealand and Australia will be identified by two different coloured balls respectively. They will be pre-assigned to positions A1 (New Zealand) and B1 (Australia) as co-hosts. 2. The remaining six teams in pot 1 will automatically be drawn into position 1 of each remaining group (in order from group C to H), with each position 1 ball being identified by a different colour. 3. FIFA’s general principle is to ensure, where possible, that no group has more than one team from the same qualification zone/confederation drawn into it. This is applicable to all zones except Europe, which will be represented by 11 teams (which may increase to a total of 12, subject to the play-off tournament results). Consequently, each group will have at least one but no more than two European teams drawn into it. Thus, three (or four) out of the eight groups will have two European teams. 4. The Play-Off Tournament for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup draw may produce an outcome where one, or more, of the play-off groups will also be required to ensure FIFA’s general principle, as outlined in point 3 above, that no group in the final competition has more than one team from the same qualification zone/confederation drawn into it (except Europe).Whenever reasonably possible, this general principle will be addressed by a respective draw constraint for each play-off placeholder to minimise the duplication of team(s) from the same qualification zone/confederation in the final competition. However, as each play-off tournament group will have numerous qualification zones/confederations represented in each play-off group stream and the winner from that play-off group will not be known by the time of the draw, this placeholder may provide, in one or more groups, two teams from the same qualification zone/confederation.The number of teams from the same qualification zone/confederation may not exceed two teams per group (e.g. the play-off tournament placeholder with the European participant may not be drawn into a group that already has two European participants).
The #FIFAWWC Draw is happening on Saturday!
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TEAMSPot 1 | New Zealand (hosts), Australia (hosts), United States, Sweden, Germany, England, France, Spain Pot 2 | Canada, Netherlands, Brazil, Japan, Norway, Italy, China PR, South Korea Pot 3 | Denmark, Switzerland, Republic of Ireland, Colombia, Argentina, Vietnam, Costa Rica, Jamaica Pot 4 | Nigeria, Philippines, South Africa, Morocco, ZambiaInter-confederation play-offs Group A winners (group includes Portugal)Inter-confederation play-offs Group B winnersInter-confederation play-offs Group C winners CONTINENTAL ALLOCATIONHosts: 2 (Australia, New Zealand)AFC: 5 (China, Japan, Philippines, South Korea, Vietnam)CAF: 4 (Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia)CONCACAF: 4 (Canada, Costa Rica, Jamaica, United States)CONMEBOL: 3 (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia)UEFA: 11 (Denmark, England, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Republic of Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland)Inter-confederation Play-Offs: 3 HOST CITIESAustralia: Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, SydneyNew Zealand: Auckland, Dunedin, Hamilton, WellingtonMATCH DAYSGroups20 July, 202321 July, 202322 July, 202323 July, 202324 July, 202325 July, 202326 July, 202327 July, 202328 July, 202330 July, 202331 July, 20231 August, 20232 August, 20233 August, 2023 Round of 165 August, 20236 August, 20237 August, 20238 August, 2023 Quarter-Finals11 August, 202312 August, 2023 Semi-Finals15 August, 202316 August, 2023 Third Place Play-Off19 August, 2023 Final20 August, 2023
Scotland , United Kingdom - 11 October 2022; Republic of Ireland manager Vera Pauw joins the celebrates with her players and staff after the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 Play-off match between Scotland and Republic of Ireland at Hampden Park in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo By Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile via Getty Images)TICKET INFORMATIONFIFA are handling all ticket sales with single match pass sales beginning following the Draw, with another exclusive Visa ticket pre-sale period from 25 October before all fans will be able to secure tickets from 1 November 2022.Click here for more information
