The FIFA Women's Invitational Tournament 1988 (Engl. "1988 FIFA Women's Invitation Tournament" or "International Women's Football Tournament") was one of the FIFA -organized invitational tournament for women's football , which from 1 to 12 June 1988 in the People's Republic of China took place. The tournament was a test of the feasibility of a women's soccer world championship. The suggestion for this came from the Norwegian Ellen Wille at the 45th FIFA Congress in Mexico City in 1986 . Previously there had been several international tournaments not organized by FIFA, such as the “Coppa del Mondo” in Italy in 1970 , the “Mundial” in Mexico in 1971, the “Mundialitos” (1982-87) and the “Women's World Invitational Tournament” (1978 to 1987), in which club and B teams had partly participated. There had also been continental soccer championships for women in Asia, Europe and Oceania. The tournament was considered a success and in 1991 the first official women's world championship was held in China .
Twelve teams were invited to the tournament, four from UEFA , three from AFC , two from CONCACAF and one each from CAF , CONMEBOL and OFC . England (runner-up European champion 1984, Mundialito winner 1985), Italy (third European championship in 1986, Mundialito winner 1984 and 1986), Taiwan ( Oceania champion 1986 and winner of the Women's World Invitation Tournament 1987) were not invited or did not take part. and New Zealand ( Oceania Champion 1983). The German national soccer team for women had not earned any international merits at the time, even if SSG 09 Bergisch Gladbach had won the “Women's World Invitational Tournament” twice, but won the European Championship title against Norway for the first time a year later , the winner of this Tournament.
The following teams accepted the invitation to the tournament:
In the preliminary round, the 12 teams initially played in three groups in each-versus-everyone mode. The three group winners and runners-up as well as the two best thirds in the group reached the knockout round. The playing time was 40 minutes twice. Games not decided after normal playing time were decided on penalties .
Two years later, the People's Republic of China hosted the 1991 Women's World Cup , for which only Brazil, Japan, Norway, Sweden and the USA could qualify among the participants in this tournament.
Australia and Canada qualified for the 1995 World Cup for the first time .
The Ivory Coast, the Netherlands and Thailand then qualified for the 2015 World Cup for the first time .
Czechoslovakia has not been able to qualify for any women's World Cup and the successor teams Slovakia and the Czech Republic have not yet succeeded in this either.
The Ivory Coast, which played its first internationals at this tournament, only played internationals again four years later, followed by a ten-year break.
The Ivorians 8-1 in the third group match against China was their biggest defeat until June 7, 2015. Then they lost their first official World Cup game with 0:10 against Germany .
The Brazilians' 2-1 win against Norway in the second group game was their first ever win.
England and Italy , which did not take part, contested the final of the last "Mundialito" a month later, in which only the USA took part in this tournament and took third place.
Norway
China
Netherlands
Sweden
Czechoslovakia
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Canada
United States
Ivory Coast
Japan
Thailand
Australia
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