The Official History of the FIFA Women's World Cup: The story of women's football from 1881 to the present

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With Spain returning home as champions, SportsPro rounds up some of the headline numbers that have emerged both during and since the Women’s World Cup. Other highlights included a sell-out crowd of 75,784 turning out for the final at Stadium Australia, which was also at capacity for the Matildas’ opening game against Ireland, their round of 16 match against Denmark and their semi-final defeat to the Lionesses, as well as England’s quarter-final with Colombia. These are big games and it has some physicality too - for them and for us. That's part of the game and we dealt with it really well," said Wiegman.

Having earlier grabbed his crotch in celebration while standing near Spain's Queen Letizia and her 16-year-old daughter, Rubiales would once again display "unacceptable" behaviour as he took his place on the podium. They got through it really well and got the win over the line. That was what we were trying to do and fortunately we did that."

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That aggregate attendance figure soared past the previous best set in 2015, when 1,353,506 spectators watched the games in Canada. The next edition four years later in France was attended by 1,131,312 supporters. Obviously, there was no point at all in Spain winning the World Cup and England would have been far better at winning, had they actually won. But, the thing I have always found hard about English football is that English journalists are such poor losers. The minute an England team doesn’t win the World Cup, all of the superlatives which were heaped upon them in the early stages of the competition are rescinded and they become virtual pariahs. Let’s make an exception this time. All-in-all, it was a positive performance to match a result which ensures England are just two matches away from glory. In conjoined sporting, social, cultural, economic, political, and/or geographical terms, The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup: Politics, Representation, & Management aggregates an intriguing and multifaceted understanding of an event which occupies an increasingly prominent place within the global sporting landscape. As much a collective research project as an edited anthology (one or more of the editors are involved in the overwhelming majority of the chapters), The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup makes an important contribution to the sporting mega-event literature. It provides a vivid and interdisciplinary reading of the tournament’s location, structure, and representation which, albeit long overdue, finally brings the FIFA Women’s World Cup under the critical academic spotlight warranted by its manifold significance. Furthermore, without resorting to any form of uncritical romanticism, the book suggests how the Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand co-hosted 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup tournament’s more progressive aspects offer something of a counterpoint to the entrenched orthodoxies of major sporting events more generally. A must-read for anyone with a serious interest in the complexities, and transformative potentialities, of contemporary sport culture.'

La Roja captain Olga Carmona’s winning goal was the crowning moment on an epic few weeks in Australia and New Zealand, which saw the world’s best players deliver a compelling tournament defined by major upsets, nail-biting games and huge public interest. This book examines the politics of the build-up to the tournament, including the bidding process, as well as how the tournament has been represented in the media, the governance structures of the tournament itself, and policy proposals designed to leave an enduring legacy for women and girls in sport. The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup is the first Women’s World Cup to be held in the Southern Hemisphere and the first to be held with an expanded 32-team format. This book shows why the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup represents a unique opportunity to enhance our understanding of women’s football, gender-oriented sport development initiatives and strategies, national sport policy and programming, and the management of international sporting events. Introducing our Book of the Week! Each week we personally recommend a trending title that we're super excited about. Want to find a bestselling book worthy of a spot on your bookshelf? Then look no further… Two weeks before the 2011 World Cup began, Fifa issued its current gender recognition policies, which require teams to sign a declaration guaranteeing that players chosen for the World Cup are “of an appropriate gender”. Those rules state that: “It lies with each participating member association to … ensure the correct gender of all players by actively investigating any perceived deviation in secondary sex characteristic.” It will be the Lionesses' third straight World Cup semi-final after defeats by the USA in 2019 and Japan in 2015.

Interestingly, the Women’s World Cup seemed to drive a significant increase in the number of female punters betting on women’s soccer. Contextualising and chronicling the gender equality provisions in FIFA’s 2016 governance reforms: Situating the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 Arsenal striker Russo, who had only scored once in four World Cup matches prior to Saturday's quarter-final, worked tirelessly out of possession, earning her opportunity when she pounced on a kind deflection to drill in England's second. Spain's tournament build-up was marked by unrest in the camp and player revolts but, despite a deserved maiden World Cup win, further negative attention came the nation's way because of the actions of the man at the top of their federation.

Find out more about team profiles, venue guides and star players to watch out for with the definitive illustrated guide to FIFA Women's World Cup Australia/New Zealand 2023 that no football fan should be without. Taking place between the 20th July and 20th August which of the 32 teams competing is your favourite to win? While the Football Ferns exited at the group stages, the Matildas’ run to the last four fuelled bumper viewership in Australia, peaking at 11.15 million viewers for the semi-final defeat to England. The game drew an average audience of 7.2 million for FTA broadcaster Seven, which saw 18.6 million Australians watch its coverage of the tournament. In addition to being the most-watched TV programme in more than two decades, the semi-final was the most-streamed event ever in Australia with 957,000 viewers on the 7Plus streaming service. All told, Fifa’s Women’s World Cup accounts now have a cumulative 8.3 million followers, which the governing body claims is the largest global community for women’s soccer and sport.Asked how it felt, Fischer said: “We had a very safe environment in the team. So it was probably the best environment to do it in. But it’s an extremely strange situation and overall not a comfortable way to do it.” Sunak and Prince William's absences from Sunday's final were also notable. Climate impact explanations were raised, but many questioned external-link if the British Prime Minister and president of the Football Association would have missed a World Cup final if it had featured Gareth Southgate's men? Spain's kiss-gate and unwanted attention It wasn’t just the co-hosts that enjoyed healthy viewership. Notably, 53.9 million viewers in China watched the country’s 6-1 defeat to England during the group stages. Players didn't like it either. Norway forward Ada Hegerberg said in a sarcastic post on social media external-link that she was "working on a little presentation to convince men". According to Fifa, 39.2 per cent of New Zealanders watching television caught the national team’s opening 1-0 win against Norway. All told, the tournament’s reach across Sky NZ and the free-to-air (FTA) Prime network was 1.88 million, equating to 39 per cent of the Kiwi population.

But as Dr Ali Bowes - a lecturer in the sociology of women's sport at Nottingham Trent University - recently told BBC News , "sport is a microcosm of society". Greeting Spain's players as they received their World Cup winners' medals, he grabbed Jenni Hermoso by the head before forcibly planting a kiss on her lips, surrounded by cameras, the eyes of millions watching on.Still, the average attendance for the tournament was 30,911, up from 21,756 at the 2019 Women’s World Cup in France. That means it is only the third time in the history of the event that the competition averaged more than 30,000 fans per match. Fifa also said that stadiums had been at 84.1 per cent occupancy after 63 games. FIFA 2.0, FIFA Women’s Football Strategy, and the bid process for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup: A new hope As One 2023, conjunctural politics, and commercialisation of gender equality and women’s empowerment: The force awakens