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2011 FIFA Women's World Cup

FIFA Frauen-Weltmeisterschaft Deutschland 2011
Tournament details
Host country	Germany
Dates	26 June – 17 July
Teams	16 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	9 (in 9 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Japan (1st title)
Runners-up	United States
Third place	Sweden
Fourth place	France
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	86 (2.69 per match)
Attendance	845,751 (26,430 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Homare Sawa (5 goals)
Best player(s)	Homare Sawa
Best young player	Caitlin Foord
Best goalkeeper	Hope Solo
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The 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup was the sixth FIFA Women's World Cup competition, the world championship for women's national association football teams. It was held from 26 June to 17 July 2011 in Germany, which won the right to host the event in October 2007. Japan won the final against the United States on a penalty shoot-out following a 2–2 draw after extra time and became the first Asian team to win a senior FIFA World Cup.^[1]

The matches were played in nine stadiums in nine host cities around the country, with the final played at the Commerzbank Arena in Frankfurt. Sixteen teams were selected for participation via a worldwide qualification tournament that began in 2009. In the first round of the tournament finals, the teams competed in round-robin groups of four teams for points, with the top two teams in each group proceeding. These eight teams advanced to the knockout stage, where two rounds of play decided which teams would participate in the final.

Host selection

Six original candidates

Six nations, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Peru and Switzerland, initially declared their interest in hosting the 2011 Women's World Cup. The German Football Association announced its hopes to host the tournament on 26 January 2006, following a pledge from German Chancellor Angela Merkel to fully support a potential bid.^[2] All six nations officially announced their interest by a 1 March 2007 deadline and acknowledged their intention of bidding by 3 May 2007 to FIFA.

The final bidding dossiers had to be handed over before 1 August 2007. Switzerland withdrew on 29 May 2007, stating that Europe is heavily focused on France and Germany, and a third European bid appeared futile. On 27 August 2007, France also withdrew, reportedly in exchange for Germany's support for their bid to host the men's UEFA Euro 2016.^[3] Later Australia (12 October 2007) and Peru (17 October 2007) voluntarily dropped out of the race as well, leaving only Canada and Germany as the remaining candidates. On 30 October 2007, the FIFA Executive Committee voted to assign the tournament to Germany.^[4] Canada was eventually awarded the 2015 Women's World Cup four years later.^[5]

Upon the selection, Germany became the third country to host both men's and women's World Cup, having hosted the men's twice in 1974 and 2006.

Venues

After the German Football Association (DFB) expressed its intention to bid for the Women's World Cup, 23 German cities applied to host World Cup games. Twelve cities were chosen for the official bidding dossier handed over to FIFA in August 2007.^[6] On 30 September 2008, the DFB executive committee decided to use nine stadiums for the tournament; the original candidates Essen, Magdeburg and Bielefeld were not chosen as World Cup venues.^[7]

The official opening game was held between Germany and Canada at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, the venue of the 2006 men's World Cup Final; it was the only match played in Berlin. However, it was not the first match of the tournament—it was preceded by a match at Rhein-Neckar-Arena in Sinsheim pitting France and Nigeria. The final of the tournament took place at the Commerzbank-Arena in Frankfurt, the venue of the 2005 men's Confederations Cup final. Borussia-Park in Mönchengladbach and Frankfurt's Commerzbank-Arena hosted the semi-finals. The third place play-off was held at Rhein-Neckar-Arena.^[7]

Since 2007, five of the stadiums were either newly built (Augsburg, Dresden and Sinsheim) or remodeled (Bochum and Leverkusen).^{[8][9][10][11][12]} Six stadiums will be home grounds for German First Bundesliga clubs in the upcoming 2011–12 season, while the other three will be home to Second Bundesliga clubs in the same season. Compared to the 2006 men's World Cup, several smaller venues were chosen; six stadiums have a capacity of 20,000 to 30,000 seats. All cities will stage a total of four matches, with the exceptions of Berlin and Mönchengladbach; the latter will host three games.^[13] The total capacity of the nine venues is roughly 330,000. Overall, approximately one million tickets will be available.^[14]

Several of the stadiums are officially referred to simply as "FIFA World Cup Stadium", because FIFA prohibits sponsorship of stadiums unless the stadium sponsors are also official tournament sponsors. With no standing-room terraces allowed, all stadiums have a lower total capacity compared to German Bundesliga games. Capacity data is given according to FIFA:^[15]

Berlin	Frankfurt	Bochum	Mönchengladbach	Sinsheim
Olympic Stadium	Commerzbank-Arena	Ruhrstadion	Borussia-Park	Rhein-Neckar-Arena
Capacity: 73,680	Capacity: 48,837	Capacity: 20,556	Capacity: 45,860	Capacity: 30,150
Leverkusen	Augsburg Berlin Bochum Dresden Frankfurt Leverkusen Mönchengladbach Sinsheim Wolfsburg 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup (Germany)			Wolfsburg
BayArena				Volkswagen-Arena
Capacity: 29,708				Capacity: 26,062
Dresden				Augsburg
Glücksgas Stadium				Impuls Arena
Capacity: 25,582				Capacity: 24,661

Teams and qualification

Number of participating teams

FIFA had considered the prospect of increasing the number of teams from 16 to 24, to reflect the growing global popularity of women's football and the Women's World Cup. However, on 14 March 2008, the FIFA Executive Committee decided to keep the number of participants at 16, concerned that more teams would dilute the quality of play.^[16] The idea of having 20 teams taking part, which had been discussed briefly, was ruled impossible to implement in terms of fixture planning and logistics.^[17] During the 2007 Women's World Cup, FIFA president Sepp Blatter had campaigned for the idea to increase the number of teams, although this proposal was not unquestioned. In particular the 11–0 victory of Germany over Argentina in the opening game of the 2007 tournament had caused a debate over whether there were 24 national teams on a comparable level.^[18]

Confederation allocation

In October 2008, the FIFA Executive Committee announced a change to the allocation of the qualifying berths for its continental confederations. Asia was granted 3 automatic berths instead of 2.5 for the finals (although in 2007 the host nation was an additional qualifier from Asia). Europe’s allocation was reduced from 5 to 4.5 (although it effectively increased to 5.5 because of the automatic qualification of the host nation). The North/Central American and Caribbean confederation (CONCACAF) retained their 2.5 qualifiers, Africa and South America 2 each, and Oceania 1. The 16th qualifying spot was determined through a play-off between the third-placed team in CONCACAF and the winner of repechage play-offs in Europe.^[19]

FIFA also ruled that each confederation has to ensure that at least one third of its member associations enter their women's national teams for World Cup qualification, otherwise FIFA would re-examine the current slot allocation. In Africa and the Middle East a considerable percentage of teams had withdrawn from World Cup qualification in the past.^[19]

For European teams, the 2011 Women's World Cup was also used as a qualification tournament for the 2012 Summer Olympics. Besides Team Great Britain, Europe had two additional qualifiers for the Summer Olympics. With Germany losing their quarter-final, France, which had already reached the semi-finals, secured qualification to the Olympics. Sweden followed as UEFA's second team with its win against Australia.^[20][21]

Qualified teams

Qualification for the tournament took place between April 2009 and November 2010. As the host nation, Germany were granted automatic qualification, while the remaining national teams qualified through their continental confederations. Most confederations used their continental championship tournaments – the AFC Women's Asian Cup, CAF Women's Championship, OFC Women's Championship, Sudamericano Femenino and CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup – to determine qualification. The exception to this was UEFA, which used its own qualifying tournament.^[22] One qualification spot was determined by a play-off between a UEFA and CONCACAF team.

Qualified   Failed to qualify

Did not enter   Not a FIFA member

† – qualified via a play-off against Italy

Colombia and Equatorial Guinea made their debuts in the FIFA Women's World Cup. Brazil, Germany, Japan, Nigeria, Norway, Sweden and the United States maintained their streak of qualifying for all six tournaments so far, while China PR failed to qualify for the first time ever. This is Mexico's first appearance since 1999 and France's first appearance since 2003.

Organization

Local organizing committee

President of Organising Committee, Steffi Jones

The tournament is supervised by the "Women's World Cup 2011 Organising Committee Germany".^[23] President of the Organising Committee (OC) is former German international Steffi Jones; she started her work on 1 January 2008. German president Christian Wulff was named the patron of the tournament.^[24]

The Organising Committee is chaired by Jones and supervised by the board of the German Football Federation (DFB). On 25 January 2009, Jones opened the committee offices and named her OC team. It is led by managing director Uli Wolter, who headed the Leipzig branch during the 2006 men's World Cup. Aside from Wolter, four department heads were named. Heike Ulrich is responsible for the tournament organisation, former German international Doris Fitschen heads the marketing department, Winfried Naß leads the department "Cities and Stadiums", and Jens Grittner, who served as the press officer for the 2006 Organising Committee, heads the communications department.^[25]

Intended to advertise the tournament primarily in Germany, the Organising Committee named four national Women’s World Cup ambassadors: former German internationals Britta Carlson, Renate Lingor, and Sandra Minnert, as well as shooting Paralympics gold medallist Manuela Schmermund.^[26] In October 2009, former U.S. international Mia Hamm was presented as the World Cup’s international ambassador.^[27] Each host city except for Berlin also named two city ambassadors. They include footballers Matthias Sammer, Karl-Heinz Riedle and Rainer Bonhof, fencer Britta Heidemann or biathlete Magdalena Neuner.^[28]

Emblem and mascot

Mascot "Karla Kick"

The official World Cup emblem, called Arena Deutschland, was presented by Steffi Jones and Franz Beckenbauer in the break between the women's and the men's game of the German Cup final on 19 April 2008. It shows a stylized stadium with stripes in the national colours of Germany, black, red and gold, and a pictogram of the Women's World Cup trophy in the upper right corner. It was designed by the Stuttgart advertising agency WVP.^[29]

The tournament mascot, cat "Karla Kick", was presented during the opening game of the 2010 Under-20 Women's World Cup on 13 July 2010. The mascot was developed by the Frankfurt agency GMR Marketing. According to Jones, the mascot represents "important attributes of women's football: passion, fun and dynamics".^[30]

Tickets

Approximately one million tickets were available in total, with 900,000 on general sale.^[31] 350,000 tickets were offered at discount prices, mainly intended for families, clubs and schools, one of the key target groups of the Organising Committee. As of 22 June 2011, 700,000 tickets have been sold.^[32]

The World Cup tickets were offered in several sales phases. During the first sales period from 29 October 2009 to 31 August 2010, only so-called city series tickets were offered. Each city series includes tickets for all games of that particular host city. The prices ranged from €30 to €415. In the second sales period from 17 February to 31 August 2010, so-called 20Eleven tickets were sold to groups of at least 11 people, offered at a 20 percent discount and directed primarily at schools and clubs. Single tickets for all matches were first sold starting 15 September 2010. The prices of individual tickets range from €10 to €200. On 18 March 2011, 100 days before the opening game, the last sales phase started, with all remaining tickets being sold in the order in which orders are received.^[33]

Unlike tickets at the 2006 men's World Cup in Germany, the tickets for the Women's World Cup were not personalised. The same city series ticket can be used by different people for different games.^[34]

Budget and sponsors

The tournament's budget has been set at €51 million.^[34] The German Football Association plans to cover these costs in almost equal parts from ticket sales and from sponsors, primarily from six so-called National Supporters.^[35] In order for the tournament to break even, the DFB has said about 80% of the tickets need to be sold, which would translate to an average attendance of 25,000. The DFB estimates to earn roughly €27 million through the general ticket sale.^[34]

From 2008 to 2010, the six National Supporters were presented: the tele-communications company Deutsche Telekom, the bank Commerzbank, the insurer Allianz, the retailer Rewe, the national mail company Deutsche Post and the national railway company Deutsche Bahn. Aside from Deutsche Bahn, the sponsors are identical with those of the 2010 U-20 Women's World Cup.^[36]

Media coverage

The television coverage of the tournament was unprecedented. For the first time, all matches were produced in high definition, with in-goal cameras and two steadicams being used for all matches. For selected matches, the broadcast production comprised up to 18 cameras, including a spidercam and a helicopter camera.^[37]

In Germany the public broadcasters ARD and ZDF showed all 32 tournament games live. Across Europe, all games were available on Eurosport in 34 countries and territories. In the United States, ESPN and ESPN2 served as the official English-language broadcaster,^[38] while Univision carried coverage in Spanish. In Canada, CBC Television and Sportsnet broadcast the tournament; the event was the first in a sub-licensing partnership for FIFA tournaments between the two networks.^[39] In the United Kingdom, the games of the English national team were shown live by BBC Red Button and the BBC Sport website.^[40] The final was shown live on BBC Three. SBS held the broadcasting rights for Australia, while Al Jazeera broadcast matches in the Middle East and North Africa.^[37]

The tournament was the first women's event to be the subject of a Panini sticker album, available only in Germany.^[41]

The final match between Japan and the United States broke the record for most tweets per second on Twitter – 7,196.^[42]

Match officials

FIFA's Referees' Committee selected 16 referees to officiate at the World Cup: three from the AFC, one from the CAF, two from CONMEBOL, three from CONCACAF, one from the OFC and six from UEFA. In addition 32 assistant referees and three fourth officials were selected. The oldest referee is 42-year-old Swede Jenny Palmquist, while the youngest referee is 29-year-old Finau Vulvuli of Fiji.^[43][44]

Squads

As with the 2007 tournament, each team's squad for the 2011 Women's World Cup consisted of 21 players, two less than men's World Cup squads. Each participating national association had to confirm their final 21-player squad no later than 10 working days before the start of the tournament. Replacement of seriously injured players was permitted until 24 hours before the team in question's first World Cup game.^[45]

Doping cases

On 25 June 2011 the A sample of Yineth Varón, goalkeeper of Colombia, tested positive to an as yet unknown substance. She was provisionally suspended by the FIFA until the B sample result was known.^[46] On 25 August 2011, it was confirmed that she had received a two-year ban.^[47]

On 7 July 2011, FIFA announced that two players from North Korea, Song Jong-Sun and Jong Pok-Sim, were provisionally suspended prior to their team’s match against Colombia after failing doping tests during the tournament.^[48] On 16 July, FIFA announced that three additional players (Hong Myong-Hui, Ho Un-Byol and Ri Un-Hyang) from North Korea tested positive following target testing of the whole team.^[49] On 25 August 2011, the Korean team was fined US$400,000, which is equal to the prize it received by finishing 13th in the 2011 tournament, and was excluded from participation at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.^[47]

Final draw

The Organising Committee approved the procedure for the final draw on 28 November 2010. Four teams – Germany, Japan, United States, Brazil – were seeded based on their FIFA Women's World Rankings and previous achievements.^{[clarification needed]} No two teams from the same confederation were to be drawn in the same group, with the exception of Group A, which would include two European teams.^[50]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Germany (A1)  Japan (B1)  United States (C1)  Brazil (D1)	Australia  North Korea  Canada  Mexico	Nigeria  Equatorial Guinea  New Zealand  Colombia	England  France  Sweden  Norway

The group draw was staged in Frankfurt, Germany, on 29 November 2010 at the Congress Centrum. The ceremony was presented by Organising Committee president Steffi Jones, assisted by FIFA Head of Women's Competitions Tatjana Haenni. The balls were drawn by former German international Günter Netzer and Slovak model and women's football ambassador Adriana Karembeu.^[51]

Group stage

The first round, or group stage, sees the sixteen teams divided into four groups of four teams. Each group is a round-robin of six games, where each team plays one match against each of the other teams in the same group. Teams are awarded three points for a win, one point for a draw and none for a defeat. The teams finishing first and second in each group qualifies for the quarter-finals.^[45]

The match schedule for the tournament was released on 20 March 2009, with the hosts placed in position A1. Unlike previous Women's World Cup final tournaments, there were no double-headers, but matches on the same day were held in different venues. According to the Organising Committee, this "signals the increased quality and status of the women's finals".^[13]

Qualified countries' results

All times are in the CEST time zone (UTC+2).

Tiebreakers

Teams are ranked on the following criteria:^[45]

1. Greater number of points in all group matches


2. Goal difference in all group matches


3. Greater number of goals scored in all group matches


4. Greatest number of points in matches between teams


5. Goal difference in matches between teams


6. Greatest number of goals scored in matches between teams


7. Fair play criteria based on red and yellow cards received


8. Drawing of lots by the FIFA Organising Committee

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Germany (H)	3	3	0	0	7	3	+4	9
France	3	2	0	1	7	4	+3	6
Nigeria	3	1	0	2	1	2	−1	3
Canada	3	0	0	3	1	7	−6	0

(H): Host.

Nigeria  v  France

26 June 2011	Nigeria	0–1	France	Rhein-Neckar-Arena, Sinsheim
15:00		Report	Delie  56'	Attendance: 25,475 Referee: Kari Seitz (United States)[52]

Germany  v  Canada

26 June 2011	Germany	2–1	Canada	Olympic Stadium, Berlin
18:00	Garefrekes  10' Okoyino da Mbabi  42'	Report	Sinclair  82'	Attendance: 73,680 Referee: Jacqui Melksham (Australia)[52]

Canada  v  France

30 June 2011	Canada	0–4	France	Ruhrstadion, Bochum
18:00		Report	Thiney  24', 60' Abily  66' Thomis  83'	Attendance: 16,591 Referee: Etsuko Fukano (Japan)[53]

Germany  v  Nigeria

30 June 2011	Germany	1–0	Nigeria	Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt
20:45	Laudehr  54'	Report		Attendance: 48,817 Referee: Cha Sung Mi (Korea Republic)[53]

France  v  Germany

5 July 2011	France	2–4	Germany	Borussia-Park, Mönchengladbach
20:45	Delie  56' Georges  72'	Report	Garefrekes  25' Grings  32', 68' (pen.) Okoyino da Mbabi  88'	Attendance: 45,867 Referee: Kirsi Heikkinen (Finland)[54]

Canada  v  Nigeria

5 July 2011	Canada	0–1	Nigeria	Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion, Dresden
20:45		Report	Nkwocha  84'	Attendance: 13,638 Referee: Finau Vulivuli (Fiji)[54]

Opening ceremony.

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
England	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7
Japan	3	2	0	1	6	3	+3	6
Mexico	3	0	2	1	3	7	−4	2
New Zealand	3	0	1	2	4	6	−2	1

Japan  v  New Zealand

27 June 2011	Japan	2–1	New Zealand	Ruhrstadion, Bochum
15:00	Nagasato  6' Miyama  68'	Report	Hearn  12'	Attendance: 12,538 Referee: Kirsi Heikkinen (Finland)[52]

Mexico  v  England

27 June 2011	Mexico	1–1	England	Volkswagen-Arena, Wolfsburg
18:00	Ocampo  33'	Report	Williams  21'	Attendance: 18,702 Referee: Silvia Reyes (Peru)[52]

Japan  v  Mexico

1 July 2011	Japan	4–0	Mexico	BayArena, Leverkusen
15:00	Sawa  13', 39', 80' Ohno  15'	Report		Attendance: 22,291 Referee: Christina W. Pedersen (Norway)[53]

New Zealand  v  England

1 July 2011	New Zealand	1–2	England	Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion, Dresden
18:15	Gregorius  18'	Report	J. Scott  63' Clarke  81'	Attendance: 19,110 Referee: Thérèse Neguel (Cameroon)[53]

England  v  Japan

5 July 2011	England	2–0	Japan	Impuls Arena, Augsburg
18:15	E. White  15' Yankey  66'	Report		Attendance: 20,777 Referee: Carol Anne Chenard (Canada)[54]

New Zealand  v  Mexico

5 July 2011	New Zealand	2–2	Mexico	Rhein-Neckar-Arena, Sinsheim
18:15	Smith  90' Wilkinson  90+4'	Report	Mayor  2' Domínguez  29'	Attendance: 20,451 Referee: Jenny Palmqvist (Sweden)[54]

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sweden	3	3	0	0	4	1	+3	9
United States	3	2	0	1	6	2	+4	6
North Korea	3	0	1	2	0	3	−3	1
Colombia	3	0	1	2	0	4	−4	1

Colombia  v  Sweden

28 June 2011	Colombia	0–1	Sweden	BayArena, Leverkusen
15:00		Report	Landström  57'	Attendance: 21,106 Referee: Carol Anne Chenard (Canada)[52]

United States  v  North Korea

28 June 2011	United States	2–0	North Korea	Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion, Dresden
18:15	Cheney  54' Buehler  76'	Report		Attendance: 21,859 Referee: Bibiana Steinhaus (Germany)[52]

North Korea  v  Sweden

2 July 2011	North Korea	0–1	Sweden	Impuls Arena, Augsburg
14:00		Report	Dahlkvist  64'	Attendance: 23,768 Referee: Estela Álvarez (Argentina)[53]

United States  v  Colombia

2 July 2011	United States	3–0	Colombia	Rhein-Neckar-Arena, Sinsheim
18:00	O'Reilly  12' Rapinoe  50' Lloyd  57'	Report		Attendance: 25,475 Referee: Dagmar Damková (Czech Republic)[53]

Sweden  v  United States

6 July 2011	Sweden	2–1	United States	Volkswagen-Arena, Wolfsburg
20:45	Dahlkvist  16' (pen.) Fischer  35'	Report	Wambach  67'	Attendance: 23,468 Referee: Etsuko Fukano (Japan)[54]

North Korea  v  Colombia

6 July 2011	North Korea	0–0	Colombia	Ruhrstadion, Bochum
20:45		Report		Attendance: 7,805 Referee: Christina W. Pedersen (Norway)[54]

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Brazil	3	3	0	0	7	0	+7	9
Australia	3	2	0	1	5	4	+1	6
Norway	3	1	0	2	2	5	−3	3
Equatorial Guinea	3	0	0	3	2	7	−5	0

Norway  v  Equatorial Guinea

29 June 2011	Norway	1–0	Equatorial Guinea	Impuls Arena, Augsburg
15:00	Haavi  84'	Report		Attendance: 12,928 Referee: Quetzalli Alvarado (Mexico)[52]

Brazil  v  Australia

29 June 2011	Brazil	1–0	Australia	Borussia-Park, Mönchengladbach
18:15	Rosana  54'	Report		Attendance: 27,258 Referee: Jenny Palmqvist (Sweden)[52]

Australia  v  Equatorial Guinea

3 July 2011	Australia	3–2	Equatorial Guinea	Ruhrstadion, Bochum
14:00	Khamis  8' Van Egmond  48' De Vanna  51'	Report	Añonma  21', 83'	Attendance: 15,640 Referee: Gyöngyi Gaál (Hungary)[53]

Brazil  v  Norway

3 July 2011	Brazil	3–0	Norway	Volkswagen-Arena, Wolfsburg
18:15	Marta  22', 48' Rosana  46'	Report		Attendance: 26,067 Referee: Kari Seitz (United States)[53]

Equatorial Guinea  v  Brazil

6 July 2011	Equatorial Guinea	0–3	Brazil	Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt
18:00		Report	Érika  49' Cristiane  54', 90+3' (pen.)	Attendance: 35,859 Referee: Bibiana Steinhaus (Germany)[54]

Australia  v  Norway

6 July 2011	Australia	2–1	Norway	BayArena, Leverkusen
18:00	Simon  57', 87'	Report	Thorsnes  56'	Attendance: 18,474 Referee: Estela Álvarez (Argentina)[54]

Knockout stage

The knockout stage comprises the eight teams that advanced from the group stage of the tournament. There are three rounds of matches, with each round eliminating half of the teams entering that round. The successive rounds are the quarter-finals, semi-finals, and the final. There is also a play-off to decide third and fourth place. For each game in the knockout stage, any draw at 90 minutes is followed by thirty minutes of extra time; if scores are still level, there is a penalty shootout to determine who progresses to the next round.^[45]

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	9 July — Wolfsburg
	Germany	0
					13 July — Frankfurt
	Japan (a.e.t.)	1
					Japan	3
	10 July — Augsburg
					Sweden	1
	Sweden	3
									17 July — Frankfurt
	Australia	1
									Japan (pen.)	2 (3)
	9 July — Leverkusen
									United States	2 (1)
	England	1 (3)
					13 July — Mönchengladbach
	France (pen.)	1 (4)
					France	1
	10 July — Dresden
					United States	3			Third place
	Brazil	2 (3)
									16 July — Sinsheim
	United States (pen.)	2 (5)
									Sweden	2
									France	1

Quarter-finals

England  v  France

9 July 2011	England	1–1 (a.e.t.) (3–4 p)	France	BayArena, Leverkusen
18:00	J. Scott  59'	Report	Bussaglia  88'	Attendance: 26,395 Referee: Jenny Palmqvist (Sweden)[55]
	Penalties
	Smith Carney Stoney Rafferty White		Abily Bussaglia Thiney Bompastor Le Sommer

Germany  v  Japan

9 July 2011	Germany	0–1 (a.e.t.)	Japan	Volkswagen-Arena, Wolfsburg
20:45		Report	Maruyama  108'	Attendance: 26,067 Referee: Quetzalli Alvarado (Mexico)[55]

Sweden  v  Australia

10 July 2011	Sweden	3–1	Australia	Impuls Arena, Augsburg
13:00	Sjögran  10' Dahlkvist  16' Schelin  52'	Report	Perry  40'	Attendance: 24,605 Referee: Silvia Reyes (Peru)[55]

Brazil  v  United States

10 July 2011	Brazil	2–2 (a.e.t.) (3–5 p)	United States	Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion, Dresden
17:30	Marta  68' (pen.), 92'	Report	Daiane  2' (o.g.) Wambach  120+2'	Attendance: 25,598 Referee: Jacqui Melksham (Australia)[55]
	Penalties
	Cristiane Marta Daiane Francielle		Boxx Lloyd Wambach Rapinoe Krieger

Semi-finals

France  v  United States

13 July 2011	France	1–3	United States	Borussia-Park, Mönchengladbach
18:00	Bompastor  55'	Report	Cheney  9' Wambach  79' Morgan  82'	Attendance: 25,676 Referee: Kirsi Heikkinen (Finland)[56]

Japan  v  Sweden

13 July 2011	Japan	3–1	Sweden	Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt
20:45	Kawasumi  19', 64' Sawa  60'	Report	Öqvist  10'	Attendance: 45,434 Referee: Carol Anne Chenard (Canada)[56]

Third place play-off

Sweden  v  France

16 July 2011	Sweden	2–1	France	Rhein-Neckar-Arena, Sinsheim
17:30	Schelin  29' Hammarström  82'	Report	Thomis  56'	Attendance: 25,515 Referee: Kari Seitz (United States)[57]

Final

Japan  v  United States

17 July 2011	Japan	2–2 (a.e.t.) (3–1 p)	United States	Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt
20:45	Miyama  81' Sawa  117'	Report	Morgan  69' Wambach  104'	Attendance: 48,817 Referee: Bibiana Steinhaus (Germany)[58]
	Penalties
	Miyama Nagasato Sakaguchi Kumagai		Boxx Lloyd Heath Wambach

Awards

The following awards were handed out at the end of the tournament.^[59][60]

Best player (Golden Ball)

Golden Ball	Silver Ball	Bronze Ball
Homare Sawa	Abby Wambach	Hope Solo

Top goalscorer (Golden Boot)

Golden Boot	Silver Boot	Bronze Boot
Homare Sawa	Marta	Abby Wambach

Other awards

Best Goalkeeper	Best Young Player	FIFA Fair Play Trophy
Hope Solo	Caitlin Foord	Japan

All-Star Team

Statistics

Goalscorers

Homare Sawa of Japan won the Golden Boot award for scoring five goals. In total, 86 goals were scored by 58 different players, with only one of them credited as an own goal.

Assists

Aya Miyama of Japan won the assists table with four assists.

Source: worldfootball.net^[62]

Tournament ranking

Rank	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Japan	6	4	1	1	12	6	+6	13
2	United States	6	3	2	1	13	7	+6	11
3	Sweden	6	5	0	1	10	6	+4	15
4	France	6	2	1	3	10	10	0	7
Eliminated in the quarter-finals
5	Brazil	4	3	1	0	9	2	+7	10
6	Germany	4	3	0	1	7	4	+3	9
7	England	4	2	2	0	6	3	+3	8
8	Australia	4	2	0	2	6	7	–1	6
Eliminated at the group stage
9	Nigeria	3	1	0	2	1	2	–1	3
10	Norway	3	1	0	2	2	5	–3	3
11	Mexico	3	0	2	1	3	7	–4	2
12	New Zealand	3	0	1	2	4	6	–2	1
13	North Korea	3	0	1	2	0	3	–3	1
14	Colombia	3	0	1	2	0	4	–4	1
15	Equatorial Guinea	3	0	0	3	2	7	–5	0
16	Canada	3	0	0	3	1	7	–6	0

Table source^{[citation needed]}

See also

• FIFA Women's World Cup


• FIFA Women's World Rankings


• FIFA World Cup


• Germany in 2011

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to FIFA Women's World Cup 2011.

• 
  FIFA Women's World Cup Germany 2011, FIFA.com


• 
  Organising Committee Germany (in German)
  


• FIFA Technical Report


• FIFA Physical Analysis