Everything you need to know about the women’s World Cup group stage

The 2023 women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand is the largest iteration to date, with 32 national teams. After the host nations qualified automatically, the other 30 teams punched their tickets from their respective confederation tournaments or through the inter-confederation playoffs.

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Along with the increase in teams and matches, FIFA expects the tournament to be the most attended standalone women’s sporting event in history, with more than 1 million tickets sold. Another outcome of the additional qualification slots is that eight women’s national teams — Haiti, Morocco, Panama, the Philippines, Portugal, Ireland, Vietnam and Zambia — will…