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| Dates | 16 September 2021 – 23 February 2023 |
| Teams | 172 (from 6 confederations) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 505 |
| Goals scored | 2,143 (4.24 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |  Tessa Wullaert (17 goals) |
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| 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup |
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The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification process determined 30 of the 32 teams which will play in the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, with the co-hosts Australia and New Zealand qualifying automatically.[1] It is the ninth FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international women's football world championship tournament. The tournament is the first Women's World Cup to be hosted in multiple countries, the third by an AFC member association after the 1991 and 2007 Women's World Cups in China, the first to be held in the Southern Hemisphere, the first senior FIFA tournament in Oceania, and also the first FIFA tournament to be hosted across multiple confederations (with Australia in the AFC and New Zealand in the OFC).
The field was expanded from 24 teams in the 2019 edition to 32 in the 2023 edition.[2]
- ^ "Australia and New Zealand selected as co-hosts of FIFA Women's World Cup 2023". FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 25 June 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
- ^ "FIFA Council unanimously approves expanded 32-team field for FIFA Women's World Cup". FIFA. 31 July 2019. Retrieved 26 June 2020.