The preparation is starting already with FIFA visiting the stadiums in Brittany Visite FIFA/FFF/LBF à Concarneau préparation Coupe du monde 2018 U20 pic.twitter.com/uac7XvCctl— Philippe Georges (@Ph_Georges) June 29, 2016 Coupe du monde U20F 2018 en Bretagne étape à Vannes à la Rabine. Un événement d'envergure pour le Foot féminin pic.twitter.com/um77IOpOs4— Philippe Georges (@Ph_Georges) June 29, 2016 As a reminder the teams will be all based in the place in a kind of Olympic village in Rennes with games to be played in Rennes, Saint-Malo, Saint-Brieux, Vannes, Lorient, Concarneau Capacity are : Rennes Roazhon Park : 29 778 Lorient : 18 500 Saint-Brieux : 10 600 Concarneau : 7 000 Vannes : 6 080 Saint Malo : 2 350 Rennes Commandant Bourgouin : 1 300 seating + standing
Are these stadiums going to be the sight for the 2019 women's world cup? Anything under 10,000 seems extremely small for the WWC. I remember Canada used the U20 WWC as a prep for the big tournament.
Nope those are local ground as the whole u20 tourney is played in Brittan hence the Olympic village style accomodation. Only the Roahzon Park is set for the 2019 world cup. Other ground are Parc OL. Full list not disclosed yet.
I am thinking of visiting this tournament as my first big women's tournament. Bretagne must be nice in summer
I'd imagine the slot allocation will be similar to the 2016 allocations: Hosts(1): France UEFA: 4 AFC: 3 CONCACAF: 3 CONMEBOL: 2 CAF: 2 OFC: 1 (New Zealand)
To New Zealand's credit, they have improved greatly since Australia left for AFC. Yes, that makes it much easier (a guarantee) for New Zealand to qualify, but the Ferns have been playing the Top 15 teams in the world much tougher than they ever did before Australia left for AFC. New Zealand is one additional goal scorer, and one dynamic midfielder away from being a Top 10 team in the world. If they had a younger Necib Lite equivalent, and a Blackstenious type of younger goal scorer, then they are Top 10.
Approval of the slot allocation and tournament dates on the next FIFA council meeting 13th and 14th of October.
Here it is Slot allocation: AFC 3 slots CAF 2 slots CONCACAF 3 slots CONMEBOL 2 Slots OFC 1 slot UEFA 4 slots Host France (UEFA) Total 16 slots 5 slots for UEFA this time due to the host.
So wait, the U20 tournament goes to the WC host as a trial run for the big WC (same excuse on why the confederations is played there for the males) yet you are telling me that the U20 is only going to use 1 2019 WC stadium? That IMO is a FIFA fail.
I think it has more to do with the FFF deciding to make the U20 tournament very practical for teams with that Olympic village concept and therefore many local games. Although it is a U20 World Cup. There is no point having a 20-40k stadium for small attendances. We have just had the men's Euros so stadiums have been tried and tested with good or bad results for hooliganism unfortunately.
OFC U-19 tournament to take place in July in New Zealand. Participants are: New Zealand, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa & Tonga.
19 teams for CAF qualifiers A total of 19 countries have entered the U20 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifiers for Africa. 🇩🇿🇧🇼🇧🇮🇨🇲🇪🇹🇩🇯🇬🇭🇬🇳🇰🇪🇱🇾🇲🇦🇳🇦🇳🇬🇷🇼🇸🇳🇸🇱🇿🇦🇹🇿🇹🇳 #U20WWCQ pic.twitter.com/SDGRIc2Drx— Usher Komugisha (@UsherKomugisha) June 15, 2017
The AFC qualification road : In Group A, tournament hosts China PR will face 2016 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup champions DPR Korea, Thailand and Uzbekistan. Meanwhile, Japan will look to defend their title and a chase a fifth AFC U-19 crown when they face Korea Republic - who finished third in 2015 - Australia and Vietnam in Group B. Each group will play a one-round league, with the top two (2) teams in each group - four (4) teams in total - qualifying for the semi-finals. The two (2) winners of the semi-finals will advance to the final, and and the two (2) losing teams will contest third and fourth place. The tournament is set to begin on October 18 and conclude a week later in Nanjing, China. The top three ranked teams in China will qualify for the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup France 2018. Group A A1: China PR (Host) A2: DPR Korea A3: Thailand A4: Uzbekistan Group B B1: Japan B2: Korea Republic B3: Australia B4: Vietnam
The UEFA qualifying path : Four teams will qualify from the 8 teams playing the U19 Euros in Northern Ireland in August. The four semi-finalists will go the World Cup as usual, but should France makes it to the semi-finals, I believe a play-off would be organized between the 3rd places team from each group.
Oops I forgot to list the 8 UEFA teams England, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Spain.
OFC qualifiers results M1 NZL 12 PNG 0 Tonga 0 Fiji 4 New Caledonia 1 Tonga 0 M2 Fiji 1 NZL 9 PNG 7 New Caledonia 0 Samoa 1 Tonga 1 New Zealand looking good so far...
Germany and the Netherlands have joined New-Zealand. Hosts(1): France UEFA: Germany, Netherlands AFC: 3 CONCACAF: 3 CONMEBOL: 2 CAF: 2 OFC: 1 New Zealand
Hosts 1: France UEFA 4: Germany, Netherlands, Spain AFC: 3 CONCACAF: 3 CONMEBOL: 2 CAF: 2 OFC: 1 New Zealand