In football, the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, which will be hosted jointly by Australia and New Zealand, starts tomorrow.
The most important international organization of women’s football, which will be held for the 9th time this year, will be completed on 20 August. The teams that take the first two places in their groups will try to win the cup after the qualifying matches starting from the last 16 round and continuing until the final.
On the first day of the tournament, the host nations will take the field. In the opening match, New Zealand, which is in Group A, and Norway will face each other at 10:00 CEST tomorrow at Eden Park Stadium with a capacity of 50 thousand people in the city of Auckland. In the other match, in Group B, Australia and the Republic of Ireland will face each other at 13:00 CEST at the Australian Stadium in Sydney.
The tournament, where the matches will be broadcast on TRT Spor and TRT Spor Yıldız channels, will be the scene of many firsts. In the organization that will be organized jointly by more than one country for the first time, 32 teams instead of 24 will be on the field for the first time.
The champions of the last two tournaments, USA, are among the favorite teams of this tournament. The USA, which has won the World Cup 4 times, is also the most successful team in the history of the organization. Germany, England, Spain and France are also shown among the ambitious teams of this championship.
The amount of prize money in this tournament will be the tournament record. FIFA, which will distribute 80 million dollars more than the previous championship, will distribute a total of 110 million dollars among the teams. In the cup, the team that will win the championship will be awarded 10 million dollars, and the finalist 7.5 million dollars.