After several unofficial tournaments, such as the Coppa del Mondo 1970 (Italy), the Mundial 1971 (Mexico), the series of Women's Mundialito's 1982-1988 (Italy), the Women's World Invitation Tournament 1987 (Taiwan) and finally FIFA's Women's Invitation Tournament 1988 (China), FIFA started a World Cup tournament for women in 1991.
Years link to the individual tournaments. Some general remarks on the data formats used there:
46+ indicates goal in stoppage time first half (46: goal in second half) 93+ indicates goal in stoppage time first half (93: goal in extra time) 23og indicates own goal 13pen indicates converted penalty Names of Chinese (and Taiwan) and (North) Korean players are given with surnames first; names of Japanese players with surnames last; for Brazilian players, if they only use first name or nickname, only this is given; if both first name and surname appear on the roster, but only first name on the uniform, the surname is given in brackets.
1991 USA 1995 Norway 1999 USA 2003 Germany 2007 Germany 2011 Japan 2015 USA 2019 USA 2023 Spain
USA 4 Germany 2 Japan 1 Norway 1 Spain 1
1991 USA 2-1 Norway 1995 Norway 2-0 Germany 1999 USA 0-0 China [asdet, 5-4 pen] 2003 Germany 2-1 Sweden [asdet] 2007 Germany 2-0 Brazil 2011 Japan 2-2 USA [aet, 3-1 pen] 2015 USA 5-2 Japan 2019 USA 2-0 Netherlands 2023 Spain 1-0 England
winners finalists semifinals quarterfinals
USA 4 5 8 8
Germany 2 3 5 8
Norway 1 2 4 6
Japan 1 2 2 4
Spain 1 1 1 1
Sweden 1 5 7
England 1 3 6
China 1 2 6
Brazil 1 2 4
Netherlands 1 1 2
Australia 1 4
France 1 4
Canada 1 2
Denmark 2
Italy 2
Russia 2
Colombia 1
Nigeria 1
North Korea 1
Taiwan 1
9 18 36 72
list of scorers World Cups 1991-2019
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