女足世界杯
US team
Previous results
:1991 Champion, 1995 Third Place, 1999 Champion, 2003 Third Place, 2007 Third Place, 2011 Runner-Up, 2015 Champion, 2019 Champion, 2023 Top 16.
The Women's World Cup is regarded as the highest honor in women's soccer. The Women's World Cup has been held once every four years since 1991, and the number of participating teams started out at 12, expanded to 16 in 1999, and then from 12 in 2015, and is now expanding again to 32 in the 2023 World Cup. The increase in the number of participating teams also means that women's soccer is becoming more and more popular, allowing more teams to reach the World Cup stage and compete for the World Cup title.
But that said, the USA has reaped the rewards of the 8 World Cups so far, and is undoubtedly the most successful in the tournament, having never fallen out of the top 4 so far in the competition. And it has won the most titles with 4, followed by Germany 2 times, and Norway and Japan 1 time each.
In the 1991 Women's World Cup in China, the U.S. was grouped with Sweden, Brazil, and Japan, and after three rounds of matches, the U.S. ranked first in the group with 3 wins and 0 losses, and advanced to the knockout rounds of the eight-team tournament. The U.S. then advanced to the finals with Chinese Taipei and Germany, and won the first Women's World Cup title with a 2-1 victory over challenger Norway in the final.
1995 Sweden Women's World Cup, the United States and China, Denmark, Australia in the same group, the U.S. women's soccer team in the group stage to take two wins and a draw to advance to the knockout rounds, and then beat Japan to advance to the semifinals, but unfortunately did not win against Norway, not the championship of the first runner-up harvest.
1999 U.S. Women's World Cup, the United States and Nigeria, North Korea, Denmark, the same group, three consecutive victories in the group stage, and then defeated Germany, Brazil and Norway to advance to the final. In the final of the U.S. women's soccer team and the Chinese women's soccer team war in the regular season and overtime are not built, and finally in the penalty kicks in the U.S. victory, harvesting the second Women's World Cup Championship.
In the 2003 U.S. Women's World Cup, the U.S. was grouped with Sweden, North Korea, and Nigeria, and advanced to the knockout rounds with a clean sweep of the group stage, beating Norway in the quarterfinals, defeating Germany in the semifinals, and finishing 3rd in the final playoffs with a win over Canada.
In the 2007 Women's World Cup in China, the U.S. women's soccer team again stopped in the semifinals and ended up finishing third again.
In the 2011 Women's World Cup in Germany, the U.S. Women's Soccer Team first advanced to the knockout rounds with wins over North Korea, Colombia, and Sweden, and then defeated Brazil and France before advancing to the semifinals. However, the U.S. Women's Soccer Team was defeated by Japan 2-5 in the final, finishing as the second runner-up in the team's history.
In the 2015 Women's World Cup in Canada, the U.S. women's soccer team won two and drew one in the group stage and defeated Colombia, China, Germany and Japan in the knockout rounds to be crowned the third Women's World Cup champion.
The U.S. women's soccer team once again won the 2019 Women's World Cup in France, collecting its fourth women's soccer trophy in team history and the second team to defend its Women's World Cup title after Germany.
At the 2023 World Cup in Australia, New Zealand, the U.S. had a poor record and was eliminated 4-5 on penalties by Sweden, stopping in the round of 16.
