23 days to go: 23 facts on the 2023 Women's World Cup 🌏 🏆 | OneFootball

It is now just 23 days until the 2023 Women’s World Cup kicks off, making it the perfect time to begin our build-up to the tournament with 23 facts on its past and its present.

1. This will be the first World Cup (men’s and women’s) hosted in Oceania. The eight previous women’s tournaments were hosted in Europe (three), Asia (two) and North America (three).

2. Across the previous eight Women’s World Cups, eight different teams have finished as runners-up.

3. The Golden Ball has been won by a USWNT player three times.

4. The Women’s World Cup has had four different winners — USA, Norway, Germany, Japan — with the USA winning the tournament four times.

5. In 2015, Switzerland’s Fabienne Humm scored the fastest hat-trick in Women’s World Cup history, finding the back of the net three times in the space of five minutes in a game against Ecuador.

6. Germany, with Nadine Angerer in goal, kept six clean sheets in six games on their way to winning the 2007 World Cup. It’s the most goals

7. There have been seven teams at every single World Cup to date and they will all be present in 2023 as well: Brazil, Germany, Japan, Nigeria, Norway, Sweden, USA.

8. And 2023 will mark a first appearance at a Women’s World Cup finals for eight different nations: Haiti, Ireland, Morocco, Panama, Philippines, Portugal, Vietnam and Zambia.

9. This tournament will have nine host cities: Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide in Australia. Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin and Hamilton and New Zealand.

10. Michelle Akers scored 10 goals at the 1991 Women’s World Cup, the most goals ever scored by a player at a single tournament.

11. The Women’s World Cup all-time league table, awarding three points for a win and one for a draw, has 2023 co-hosts Australia ranked 11th, with a record seven wins, six draws and 13 defeats.

12. The US host the record for most consecutive wins at World Cup finals, winning 12 in a row from 2011-19, a run they could extend Down Under.

13. That run includes a 13-0 win over Thailand (2019), the biggest win and highest scoring match in Women’s World Cup history. The 13 goals are as many as the US scored at the entire 2011 tournament.

14. The 2019 World Cup saw a record 14 players scored three or more goals at one finals.

15. England have won 15 games at Women’s World cup finals, the seventh most of any nation. 2023 co-hosts New Zealand hold the record for most Women’s World Cup finals matches (15) without a single win.

16. Australia star Caitlin Foord was just 16 when she won the Fifa Young Player Award at the 2011 World Cup. At 28, she is heading to her fourth finals.

17. Brazilian legend Marta has a record 17 goals at World Cup finals. This will be her sixth tournament.

18. The USA hold the record for most goals in a single group stage, netting 18 times before the knockout rounds in 2019.

19. Nigeria have lost 19 games at World Cup finals, more than any other nation.

20. Italy’s 20-year wait (1999-2019) is the longest a nation has gone between finals appearances.

21. There have been 24 hat-tricks at Women’s World Cups but only one has ever been scored by a player under the age of 21, with Inka Grings 20 years and 236 days when she struck three for Germany against Mexico in 1999.

22. Norwegian international Bente Nordby made a record 22 appearances at Women’s World cup finals.

23. The USWNT ended the 2019 finals with a goal difference of +23, a record for a single World Cup finals.