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FIFA Women's World Cup Final
Published or Updated June 1, 2015
Location: Canada
Sport: Soccer
Level: Professional
Sport: Soccer
Level: Professional
Event Type: Team Championship
First Held: 1991
Next Up: 6/6/2015-7/5/2015
First Held: 1991
Next Up: 6/6/2015-7/5/2015
When and Where: every four years at rotating sites around the world
Widely regarded as the most important event in women’s football, a win at the FIFA Women’s World Cup Final represents a coup de grace the female athletes of the sport.
The current format consists of 16 teams competing for the cup every four years. The first Women’s World Cup was fought for only as far back as 1991, nearly 60 years after the first men’s cup. Suffice it to say that the anticipation was, and continues to be, very high.
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1991 - the first Women's World Cup tournament, named the Women's World Championship, was held in 1991, sixty-one years after the men's first FIFA World Cup tournament in 1930.
1999 - In the 1999 edition, one of the most famous moments of the tournament was American defender Brandi Chastain's victory celebration after scoring the Cup-winning penalty shot against China. She took off her jersey and waved it over her head (as men f
1995 - This was Norway's second consecutive final and, unlike their previous final, they came out victorious with a 2-0 win over Germany to capture the Women's World Cup title.
2003 - A devastating outbreak of the SARS disease forced FIFA to switch the venue the 2003 Women's World Cup from China to the USA
The current format has sixteen teams competing every four years for the winner's trophy.
The United States and Germany have won the championship twice, and Norway once. Germany is the two-time defending champion.
At the 2007 World Cup in China, U.S. captain Kristine Lilly competed in her fifth World Cup, making her the only woman and one of three players in history to appear in five World Cups.
2007 - For the first time in the history of the FIFA Women's World Cup all teams will be awarded monetary bonuses; those exiting the tournament at the first round stage will be awarded $200,000 with prize money increasing through to $1million for the cham
