Chinese Women's National Football Team / World Championships

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People's Republic of China
(中国 国家 女子 足球队)
Chinese Football Association logo
World Cup record scorer : Sun Wen (11)
World Cup record player: Sun Wen (20)
Rank : 6th
Organizer: 1991, 2007
Balance sheet
33 World Cup games
16 wins
7 draws
10 defeats
52:32 goals
statistics
First World Cup game PR China 4: 0 Norway Guangzhou ( CHN ); November 16, 1991
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China NorwayNorway
Biggest World Cup victory China PR 7-0 Ghana Portland ( USA ); June 23, 1999
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China GhanaGhana
Biggest World Cup defeat PR China 0: 4 Brazil Wuhan , ( CHN ); September 15, 2007
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China BrazilBrazil
successes

World Championship
Participation in the finals 7 ( first : 1991 )
Best results Vice World Champion 1999
Best placements in the countries that host the FIFA World Cup
China Women's World Cup placements.PNG
(As of June 25, 2019 )

The article provides a detailed account of the Chinese national soccer team for women at world championships . The People's Republic of China hosted the women's World Cup twice and was also able to qualify for the final four times. The team occupies 6th place in the all-time table as the best Asian and best team with only five participations (status before the 2015 World Cup). The Chinese were the first team to lose a women's World Cup final to a penalty shoot-out and are the only finalist who did not qualify for all of the finals.

Overview

year Host country Participation until ... opponent Result Trainer Comments and special features
1991 People's Republic of China Quarter finals Sweden 5. Shang Ruihua
1995 Sweden 3rd place match United States 4th Yuanan Ma
1999 United States final United States Vice world champion Yuanan Ma Defeat on penalties
2003 United States Quarter finals Canada 6th Ma Liangxing
2007 People's Republic of China Quarter finals Norway 5. SwedenSweden Marika Domanski Lyfors Biggest loss of a host
2011 Germany not qualified Failed at the 2010 World Cup at the eventual world champions Japan
2015 Canada Quarter finals United States 8th. Hao Wei In the group stage , the team met Canada , New Zealand and the Netherlands and reached the second round in second place
2019 France Round of 16 Italy Jia Xiuquan
Germany, Spain and South Africa were the first team to be athletically qualified

statistics

(Figures including qualification 2019: seven or eight world championships; percentages are rounded)

  • not participated: never (0%)
  • not qualified: once (12.5%)
  • Qualified without qualification (as host): twice (25%)
  • athletically qualified: five times (62.5% and 83.3% of the attempts)
    • Round of 16: once (12.5%, 2019)
    • Quarter-finals: four times (50%; 1991, 2003, 2007 and 2015)
    • Match for 3rd place: once (12.5%; 1995)
    • Vice world champion: once (12.5%; 1999)

The tournaments

World Cup 1991 in the People's Republic of China

Since the first women's World Cup was held in the PRC, the Chinese women did not have to qualify. Nevertheless, the team took part in the Asian Cup in 1991 , which served the other Asian teams as a qualification. The PR China won the championship with five victories and would have been athletically qualified.

At the finals, the teams from Norway , Denmark and New Zealand were drawn from the PR China . On November 16, 1991, the PR China and Norway played the first official women's World Cup game in Guangzhou . The realized Ma Li after 22 minutes, the first World Cup goal. In the second half, the Chinese then scored three more goals and won 4-0. In the second game against Denmark they had to be satisfied with a 2-2 deficit after a 2-2 deficit, but were able to win the last game against New Zealand 4-1 and were group winners. In the quarter-finals they met Sweden . Already in the 3rd minute of the game Pia Sundhage made it 1-0 for the Scandinavians, although it stayed until the end. The Chinese were eliminated.

World Cup 1995 in Sweden

Four years later, the Chinese actually had to qualify. The Asian Games in Hiroshima in 1994 served as qualification . Japan , the Republic of China , the PR China and South Korea initially met in a group of four . After a 1-1 draw against Japan, they both won against the other two teams and then met again in the final, which the Chinese won 2-0. Both finalists drove to the World Cup, which was taking place on European soil for the first time.

At the World Cup in Sweden, defending champions USA , Australia and again Denmark were drawn. With a 3: 3 against the USA after 0: 2 and 1: 3 deficit, they started the group games. A 4-2 win against Australia followed and a 3-1 win against Denmark. Tied on points with the USA, they were second in the group due to the worse goal difference. In the quarter-finals they met the hosts and, like four years earlier, Sweden. The Chinese took a 1-0 lead in the 29th minute and it stayed that way until the 90th minute. In the third minute of stoppage time, Ulrika Kalte managed to equalize the Swedes. Since no team was able to score in the subsequent extra time, there was the first penalty shoot-out at a women's World Cup. Here the Chinese had the slightly better goal scorers and reached the semi-finals for the first time with a 4: 3. The Chinese then lost in the semi-finals against European champions Germany with a goal scored by Bettina Wiegmann in the 88th minute with 0: 1 and also the small final against the USA with 0: 2. With fourth place, however, the Chinese had qualified for the first women's football tournament at the 1996 Olympic Games , in which only the eight best teams from the World Cup could take part.

World Cup 1999 in the USA

For the third World Cup, the Chinese qualified as winners of the 1997 Asian Women's Football Championship . After three preliminary round victories against North Korea , Uzbekistan and the Philippines , the Republic of China was won 10-0 in the semi-finals and the World Cup ticket was booked. In the final, North Korea was defeated again, which, however, had also qualified by reaching the final.

In the USA they won the opening game against the Swedes 2-1, with a 7-0 win against World Cup newcomers Ghana , in which Sun Wen scored three goals and a 3-1 against Oceania champions Australia , the group won. In the quarter-finals they met their neighbors Russia and won 2-0. In the semifinals, a 5-0 win against defending champions Norway followed, which was the biggest win against a defending champion at a World Cup. In the final in front of a record crowd of 90,185 spectators, they then met the host USA. None of the women's football games recognized by FIFA had more spectators. After a goalless 120 minutes, the penalty shoot-out had to decide for the first time at a women's World Cup . While all five US girls were able to transform, Liu Ying failed because of Briana Scurry . With the runner-up, however, the Chinese achieved their best placement to date. After that it was not possible to build on the performance of 1999. Sun Wen and the Brazilian Sissi were joint top scorer with seven goals each. Sun Wen was also awarded the Golden Ball for Best Player of the Tournament. In addition, the PR China received the fair play award.

2003 World Cup in the USA

The 2003 World Cup should actually take place again in the PR China. Because of the SARS epidemic, the tournament was moved to the USA at short notice. This was the second time that the World Cup took place in the USA. The Chinese therefore had to qualify again for which the Asian Cup was again used. In the group stage, the Chinese prevailed with three wins against neighbors Vietnam (6: 0) and India (12: 0) as well as Uzbekistan (11: 0), which meant that the World Cup qualification was perfect. In the semifinals a 3-1 win against South Korea followed, the final was then lost 1: 2 by Golden Goal against North Korea.

In the USA they met Ghana in the first group game and won 1-0. Against Oceania champions Australia a 1: 1 followed. With a 1-0 win against Russia, which had already qualified for the quarter-finals, the group was then concluded as a winner and also reached the quarter-finals. Here Canada was the opponent and after a 0: 1 the World Cup was over for the Chinese.

World Cup 2007 in the People's Republic of China

Four years later, the World Cup took place in the PR China for the second time, so the Chinese did not have to qualify. Nevertheless, they took part in the 2006 Asian Cup, which served as a qualification for the other teams of the AFC. After North Korea was better twice in a row, the PR China was able to win the title for the eighth time and to this day the last time and thus set a record for official continental championships, which was only set by Germany in 2013 .

At the World Cup, the Chinese then competed for the first time with a foreign coach, the Swede Marika Domanski Lyfors , who had already looked after Sweden at the World Cup in 1999 and 2003. In the final round, the PR China was set alongside defending champions Germany, record world champions USA and Norway. The draw was drawn for the Chinese Oceania champions New Zealand , Brazil and, as twice before, Denmark. They then played the opening game against the Danes. After a 2-0 lead they had to accept the 2-2 equalization, but with the third goal one minute after the equalization they ultimately won 3-2. The game against Brazil was then lost 4-0, the biggest defeat for a host at a women's World Cup. With a 2-0 win against New Zealand, they reached the quarter-finals as second in the group. But this was the end of the line after a 0: 1 against Norway and the Chinese said goodbye to the World Cup for eight years.

World Cup 2011 in Germany

For the first time, the PR China could not qualify for the World Cup in Germany . At the 2010 Asian Cup , which took place in the PR China, the Chinese could not use the home advantage and only finished fourth. After a goalless start against South Korea, two wins against Vietnam (5: 0) and Australia (1: 0) were achieved, which meant qualifying for the semi-finals, but they lost 1-0 to North Korea. Since the game for third place was also lost 2-0 to Japan, a women's World Cup took place for the first time without the PR China. Instead, the Chinese had to watch from a distance as Japan became the first Asian team to become world champions.

2015 World Cup in Canada

In qualifying for the World Cup in Canada, for which the Asians were given five starting places after the increase in the number of participants, the Chinese came third at the 2014 Asian Cup . After a 7-0 win against Thailand at the start of the group phase, a 3-0 win against Myanmar followed , so that a 0-0 win against South Korea was enough to reach the semi-finals and thus the World Cup in Canada. The semifinals were lost against world champions Japan with 1: 2. In the game for third place, it was 2-1 against South Korea. In addition to the new Asian champions and the Chinese, Australia qualified second, South Korea fourth and, for the first time, Thailand qualified fifth.

When the groups were drawn, the Chinese PR China was not seeded and was drawn to group A with hosts Canada, against whom the opening game was played. Other group opponents were New Zealand and World Cup newcomers Netherlands . The Chinese arrived with the longest series of games without a win and also lost the opening game against Canada 1-0, but only with a goal from a penalty in stoppage time. In the second group game against the Netherlands, the series could be stopped, although the 1-0 winner was only scored in stoppage time. With a 2-2 draw in the last group game against New Zealand, they reached the second round in second place. In the round of 16 they defeated the surprise team from Cameroon , which participated for the first time and was the best of the eight newcomers, 1-0. In the quarterfinals that followed, there was a final revision of 1999 against the USA. From the final squad at that time, only the now oldest World Cup player Christie Rampone was in the US squad in 2015 , but she was not used in both games. The US-Americans dominated the game, but missed many chances while the Chinese only shot once at the goal of the US girls in the entire game. As in 1999, the game went into the second half without goals, but six minutes after the restart, Carli Lloyd scored a 1-0 win. The Chinese were eliminated for the fourth time in the quarter-finals. With the quarter-finals, the tenure of coach Hao Wei ended . In September, the former French national coach Bruno Bini was signed as his successor.

World Cup 2019 in France

In the qualification for the World Cup in France, for which the Asians were again granted five starting positions, the PR China qualified as the first team athletically for the World Cup finals by reaching the semi-finals at the 2018 Asian Cup . For this championship, which took place in Jordan in April 2018 , the Chinese women were automatically qualified. With three wins against Thailand, the Philippines and host Jordan, both the semi-finals of the Asian Cup and the World Cup finals were reached. In the semifinals, the Chinese failed to Japan, but were able to win the game for third place against Thailand.

At the World Cup in France, the PR China met Germany, Spain and newcomer South Africa in the group stage. Against Germany, the Chinese stood out mainly because of their tough style of play. The German playmaker Dzsenifer Marozsán suffered a broken toe and was out for the rest of the group matches. The Chinese were under constant pressure, but after mistakes by the German defense in the first half, they had better scoring chances that were not used. Giulia Gwinn scored the only goal of the game in the second half . The Chinese won 1-0 against South Africa with a goal from Li Ying . Even before the game against Spain it was clear that both teams would reach the round of 16 in the event of a tie, based on the results of Group E and F. Neither of them took a high risk and reached the round of 16 after a goalless 90 minutes. In the round of 16, the Chinese then met Italy as one of the four best group thirds and lost 2-0.

Games

The PR China has played 33 World Cup games so far. 16 of them were won, ten lost and seven ended in a draw. Twice games went into overtime because a winner had to be determined. One was won on penalties and one lost. The PR China played the first opening game in 1991 as the host and in 2015 the last so far against the hosts. The PR China had eight home games and played a total of three times against the hosts: 1995 and 1999, in both cases there were penalties and in 2015. The PR China played twice against the eventual world champions (1999 in the final and 2015 in the quarter-finals against the USA) and three times against the defending champion. The China played most often (4 times) against the USA. Only three games were the first so far against the respective opponents.

The PR China has so far played against teams from all other confederations but only against the champions of Europe, North and Central America and Oceania (10 times), most often (6 times) against the Oceania champions (three times each from Australia and New Zealand).

Most games played Sun Wen (20), who also scored the most goals (11). Together with Bettina Wiegmann (Germany), she is fifth in the ranking of the best World Cup goalscorers .

All World Cup games
No. date Result opponent venue occasion Remarks
1 11/16/1991 4-0 NorwayNorway Norway H Guangzhou Preliminary round First women's World Cup game
50th FIFA-counted game of the Chinese women
2 11/19/1991 2: 2 DenmarkDenmark Denmark H Guangzhou Preliminary round First international match against Denmark
3 11/21/1991 4: 1 New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand H Foshan Preliminary round First international match against New Zealand
4th 11/24/1991 0: 1 SwedenSweden Sweden H Guangzhou Quarter finals
5 06/06/1995 3: 3 United StatesUnited States USA (TV) * Gävle ( SWE ) Preliminary round
6th 06/08/1995 4: 2 AustraliaAustralia Australia * Västerås ( SWE ) Preliminary round
7th 06/10/1995 3: 1 DenmarkDenmark Denmark * Västerås ( SWE ) Preliminary round
8th 06/13/1995 1: 1 n.V., 4: 3 i. E. SwedenSweden Sweden A. Helsingborg ( SWE ) Quarter finals
9 06/15/1995 0: 1 GermanyGermany Germany * Helsingborg ( SWE ) Semifinals
10 06/17/1995 0: 2 United StatesUnited States USA (TV) * Gävle ( SWE ) 3rd place match
11 06/19/1999 2: 1 SwedenSweden Sweden * San Jose ( USA ) Preliminary round
12 06/23/1999 7-0 GhanaGhana Ghana * Portland ( USA ) Preliminary round
13 06/26/1999 3: 1 AustraliaAustralia Australia * East Rutherford ( USA ) Preliminary round
14th 06/30/1999 2-0 RussiaRussia Russia * San Jose ( USA ) Quarter finals
15th 07/04/1999 5-0 NorwayNorway Norway (TV) * Boston ( USA ) Semifinals Biggest win in a women's World Cup semi-final and against a defending champion
16 07/10/1999 0: 0 a.d., 4: 5 i. E. United StatesUnited States United States A. Los Angeles ( USA ) final
17th 09/21/2003 1-0 GhanaGhana Ghana * Carson ( USA ) Preliminary round
18th 09/25/2003 1: 1 AustraliaAustralia Australia * Carson ( USA ) Preliminary round
19th 09/28/2003 1-0 RussiaRussia Russia * Portland ( USA ) Preliminary round
20th 10/02/2003 0: 1 CanadaCanada Canada * Portland ( USA ) Quarter finals
21st 09/12/2007 3: 2 DenmarkDenmark Denmark H Wuhan Preliminary round
22nd 09/15/2007 0: 4 BrazilBrazil Brazil H Wuhan Preliminary round Biggest loss for a women's World Cup host
23 09/20/2007 2-0 New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand H Tianjin Preliminary round
24 09/23/2007 0: 1 NorwayNorway Norway H Wuhan Quarter finals
25th 06/06/2015 0: 1 CanadaCanada Canada A. Edmonton ( CAN ) Preliminary round / opening game
26th 06/11/2015 1-0 NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands * Edmonton ( CAN ) Preliminary round
27 06/15/2015 2: 2 New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand * Winnipeg ( CAN ) Preliminary round
28 06/20/2015 1-0 CameroonCameroon Cameroon * Edmonton ( CAN ) Round of 16 First international match against Cameroon
500th international match for the Chinese
29 06/26/2015 0: 1 United StatesUnited States United States * Ottawa ( CAN ) Quarter finals
30th 06/08/2019 0: 1 GermanyGermany Germany * Rennes ( FRA ) Preliminary round
31 06/13/2019 1-0 South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa * Paris ( FRA ) Preliminary round
32 06/17/2019 0-0 SpainSpain Spain * Le Havre ( FRA ) Preliminary round
33 06/25/2019 0: 2 ItalyItaly Italy * Montpellier ( FRA ) Round of 16

Note: Teams in bold were champions of their confederation at the time of the match.

The Chinese team achieved their highest victories against the following countries in World Cup tournaments:

  • GhanaGhana Ghana 7-0 (1999, preliminary round)
  • CameroonCameroon Cameroon 1-0 (2015, round of 16) - first international match against Cameroon
  • NorwayNorway Norway 5-0 (1999, semi-finals) - highest victory against a defending champion
  • RussiaRussia Russia 2-0 (1999, quarter-finals) - also a 2-0 in a friendly match and a 3-1 in the four-nation tournament in 2005

The Chinese team conceded one of their biggest defeats in a World Cup tournament only against the eventual vice world champions Brazil : 0: 4 (2007 in the preliminary round)

Records

Players

  • The first World Cup goal : Ma Li after 22 minutes in the 1991 opening game against Norway at the 1991 World Cup.
  • First goalkeeper to save a penalty: Zhong Honglian on November 16, 1991 against Norway in their first World Cup game.
  • Most saved penalties in penalty shootout: Gao Hong (1995), Ayumi Kaihori / Japan (2011), Hope Solo / USA (2011) 2 penalties each.

team

  • Biggest win against a defending champion: PR China against Norway 5-0 in the 1999 semi-finals
  • Twice the defeated finalist scored more goals per game on the way to the final than the world champions: PR China (1999, 3.8 goals / game vs. USA 3.6 goals / game) and USA (2011, 2.2 goals / game) Game vs. Japan 2.0 goals / game).
  • Most draw games: PR China and USA (6 each; including games that were decided by a penalty shoot-out)
  • The most common quarter-final pairing (2 ×) was PR China against Sweden (1991 and 1995)
  • Biggest victory in a World Cup: 1999 in the USA - PR China against Ghana 7-0 in the preliminary round
  • Biggest win in a semi-final: 1999 in the USA - PR China against Norway 5-0

opponent

  • The first penalty awarded: Tone Haugen (Norway) in the 1st World Cup game on November 16, 1991 against the PR China
  • The fastest sending-off: Alicia Ferguson (Australia) in the game against China PR at the 1999 World Cup (final score 3: 1) after 2 minutes

spectator

  • The game with the most spectators: The final of the World Cup 1999 USA - PR China with 90,185 spectators

Negative records

  • First team to lose a final on penalties: 1999 PR China - USA 4-5 i. E.
  • Most defeats in knockout games: PR China and Norway (6 each, 1 each from penalties)
  • Biggest loss by a host: PR China - Brazil 0-4, preliminary round 2007
  • First team to lose an opening game by a penalty and in added time: 0-1 to Canada, 2015
  • The only host with a negative goal difference in the preliminary round: 2007 - 5: 6

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Of which one game (final) lost on penalties and one game won.
  2. The placements from 5th place onwards were determined by FIFA without any placement games, see Technical Report FIFA Women's World Cup Canada 2015 ™ , page 159
  3. China PR - Norway 4: 0 (1: 0)
  4. Sweden - China PR 1: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 0: 1) 3: 4 i. E.
  5. Because England, as the seventh best team, was not allowed to start at the Olympic Games, Brazil was also able to participate as the ninth best team.
  6. fifa.com: "Olympic Football Tournament Atlanta Women 1996"
  7. The final of the 2nd unofficial World Cup 1971 in Mexico between Denmark and Mexico took place in front of 110,000 spectators in the Aztec Stadium , see Mundial (Women) 1971
  8. Nigeria has won a total of nine African Championships, but two of them are unofficial.
  9. framba.de: "Women's World Cup 2015: group draw degenerates into a farce" ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / framba.de
  10. USA - China PR 0: 0 a.d. 5: 4 E.
  11. fifa.com: China PR secures starting place for World Cup in France
  12. fifa.com: "Ma:" The first World Cup goal was something special ""
  13. fifa.com: "Countdown: Only 91 days left"