Football Women's World Cup 2011

FIFA Women's World Cup 2011
FIFA Women's World Cup 2011
Number of nations	16  (of 126 applicants)
World Champion	Japan (1st title)
venue	Germany
Opening game	June 26, 2011
Endgame	July 17, 2011
Games	32
Gates	86  (⌀: 2.69 per game)
spectator	845,711  (⌀: 26,428 per game)
Top scorer	Homare Sawa (5 goals)
Best player	Homare Sawa
Best goalkeeper	Hope Solo
yellow cards	63  (⌀: 1.97 per game)
Red cards	4  (⌀: 0.13 per game)

Opening ceremony in the Olympiastadion Berlin on June 26th, 2011

Participant placements

The final round of the FIFA World Cup of Women 2011 ( . English : FIFA Women's World Cup Germany 2011 ) was the sixth playout of the most important tournament for women's football - national and was from 26 June to 17 July 2011 in the country of defending champion Germany held. The motto for the final round was “20elf from its most beautiful side!” . After the 2003 World Cup in the USA, this was the second women's soccer World Cup to be held in the country of the defending champions.

16 national teams competed against each other first in the group stage in four groups and then in the knockout system . The Japanese national team became world champions for the first time . The USA became vice world champions . Third place went to the Swedish national team . Defending champions Germany were eliminated in the quarterfinals. The teams from Austria and Switzerland could not qualify for the finals.

Award

DFB President Theo Zwanziger announced the application for the tournament on January 26, 2006 after Chancellor Angela Merkel had already promised the DFB the full support of the German government in December 2005.

All original applicants for the 2011 World Cup

In addition to Germany, the football associations of Australia , France , Canada , Peru and Switzerland had announced their interest in hosting the 2011 World Cup by March 1, 2007. The six associations had until 3 May 2007 to send FIFA confirmation of their application. The final application documents had to be submitted to FIFA by August 1, 2007. On May 29, 2007, Switzerland withdrew its application, because "because everything in Europe focuses on applications from Germany and France, a third European application does not make sense". On August 27, 2007, France also withdrew its application. To compensate, the DFB supported the French association in applying for the 2016 European Men's Championship . Later, Australia (on October 12) and Peru (on October 17) voluntarily withdrew from the race for the event, so that when the tournament was finally awarded, only Germany and Canada were candidates for hosting the tournament. On October 30, 2007, the world association FIFA in Zurich finally awarded the World Cup to Germany.

Venues

Choice of stages

A total of 23 cities applied to host games. The original applicants also included Duisburg, a stronghold in German women's football . However, the city withdrew its application for financial reasons. Itself had still advertised Aachen , Freiburg , Karlsruhe and Mannheim . However, these were not included in the application by the DFB. The applications from Dortmund , Hamburg , Hanover , Kaiserslautern , Cologne and Leipzig were not taken into account, as games of the 2006 Men's World Cup were held in these cities. As early as October 2007, DFB President Theo Zwanziger assured Berlin for the opening game and Frankfurt for the final that they would participate. From the 23 applicants, twelve cities were initially selected for the official DFB application dossier for hosting the World Cup. Wolfsburg was another city that received approval from the DFB for the World Cup in May 2008. However, Essen was removed from the list of twelve applicants in July 2008 due to the lack of assurance that a new stadium would be built.

1000 days before the opening of the World Cup, the nine venues were announced on September 30, 2008 in the Chancellery in Berlin under the eyes of Chancellor Angela Merkel . In addition to the nine venues, Bielefeld and Magdeburg were also part of the application dossier. These cities were excluded by the DFB in the last selection process.

The nine World Cup stadiums

According to DFB General Secretary Wolfgang Niersbach , all eleven applicants had submitted excellent applications. Because Magdeburg is too close to Wolfsburg, Dresden, which also has the larger surrounding area, was preferred as a representative of the Northeast German Football Association. In North Rhine-Westphalia, all three regional associations should each be given a venue, which meant that Bielefeld had to lose out to Leverkusen.

The total audience capacity of the nine stadiums was 330,000, with the use of seats only. All figures are based on the official information from the DFB. The stadiums, where the naming rights were assigned to sponsors, were renamed for the tournament.

• Augsburg: The SGL arena was opened in July 2009. The home of FC Augsburg offered space for 24,605 ​​spectators during the tournament. Three preliminary round games and a quarter-finals were played in the stadium. During the tournament, the stadium was called the FIFA Women's World Cup Stadium Augsburg .
• Berlin: The Olympic Stadium was the largest stadium of the tournament with a capacity of 73,680 spectators. Only the opening game took place in the home stadium of Hertha BSC . The Olympic Stadium was the venue for the final of the men's World Cup in 2006.
• Bochum: With 20,452 seats (during the FIFA Women's World Cup 2011), the Ruhrstadion was the smallest venue for the World Cup. The home of VfL Bochum was renovated until the 2011 World Cup. The stadium was the venue for four preliminary round matches and was called the FIFA Women's World Cup Stadium Bochum during the tournament .
• Dresden: The Glücksgas Stadium , the home ground of Dynamo Dresden , held 25,598 spectators for the World Cup. There were three preliminary round matches and a quarter-finals in Dresden. For the duration of the world championship, the stadium again carried its old name Rudolf Harbig Stadium .
• Frankfurt am Main: The final was held in the Waldstadion (current official name: Commerzbank-Arena ), home of Eintracht Frankfurt . With 48,817 seats, it was the second largest stadium of the tournament and, besides the Berlin Olympic Stadium, the only arena in which games of the 2006 Men's World Cup were held. In addition to the final, two preliminary round games, including a game for the German team, and a semi-final were played in Frankfurt. During the tournament, the stadium was called the FIFA Women's World Cup Stadium in Frankfurt .
• Leverkusen: The home of Bayer 04 Leverkusen , the BayArena , was expanded to 29,870 places by 2009. The final of the 2006 World Cup for people with disabilities took place in the BayArena . In the venue, which was called the FIFA Women's World Cup Stadium in Leverkusen during the tournament , three preliminary round matches and a quarter-finals were played.
• Mönchengladbach: The third largest stadium was Borussia Park , where Borussia Mönchengladbach plays its home games. The capacity was 45,867 seats. In Mönchengladbach two preliminary round games, one of which was played by the German team, and a semi-final. Mönchengladbach is the only World Cup city in which the German women's national team had not played an international match before the World Cup.
• Sinsheim: The Rhein-Neckar-Arena , home of TSG 1899 Hoffenheim , opened in 2009 and had a capacity of 25,475 spectators. Sinsheim is the smallest venue with 35,000 inhabitants. In the Rhein-Neckar-Arena three games of the preliminary round and the game for 3rd place took place.
• Wolfsburg: The Volkswagen Arena held 26,067 spectators during the World Cup. The VfL Wolfsburg venue was built in 2002. Three preliminary round games and a quarter-finals took place in Wolfsburg. During the tournament, the stadium was renamed Arena im Allerpark Wolfsburg .

Bochum	Wolfsburg	augsburg Berlin Bochum Dresden Frankfurt am Main Leverkusen Mönchengladbach Sinsheim Wolfsburg	Berlin	Dresden
Ruhrstadion (FIFA Women's World Cup Stadium Bochum) Capacity: 20,452	Volkswagen Arena (Arena im Allerpark Wolfsburg) Capacity: 26,067		Olympiastadion Berlin Capacity: 73,680	Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion Capacity: 25,598
4 preliminary round matches	3 preliminary round games 1 quarter-finals		1 preliminary round game (opening game)	3 preliminary round games 1 quarter-finals
Mönchengladbach	Leverkusen	Frankfurt am Main	Sinsheim	augsburg
Borussia Park Capacity: 45,867	BayArena (FIFA Women's World Cup Stadium Leverkusen) Capacity: 29,870	Commerzbank-Arena (FIFA Women's World Cup Stadium Frankfurt) Capacity: 48,817	Rhein-Neckar-Arena Capacity: 25,475	SGL arena (FIFA Women's World Cup Stadium Augsburg) Capacity (WM): 24,605
2 preliminary round games 1 semi-finals	3 preliminary round games 1 quarter-finals	2 preliminary round games 1 semi-finals final	3 preliminary round play for 3rd place	3 preliminary round games 1 quarter-finals

qualification

→ Main article : 2011 Women's World Cup / Qualification

Discussion about the size of the field of participants

In the run-up to the tournament, FIFA thought about expanding the field from 16 to 20 or 24 teams to match the growing popularity of women's football and the Women's World Cup. During the 2007 World Cup , FIFA President Sepp Blatter advocated increasing the field of participants to 24 teams. However, the expansion of the field of participants was controversial. Especially the 11-0 victory of the German team at the 2007 World Cup against Argentina sparked a discussion about whether there are 24 national teams with roughly equal strength. On February 6, 2008, the FIFA Football Committee came to the conclusion that the field of participants should not be increased, as the considerable differences in level between the teams did not allow the field to be expanded. An increase to 20 teams was rejected for technical and logistical reasons. FIFA also awarded the 2010 U-20 World Cup to Germany. In the future, a U-20 World Cup will take place in the same country in the year before the Women's World Cup. The model here is the hosting of the Confederations Cup by the host of the Men's World Cup .

Attendees

The FIFA Executive Committee decided at its meeting on 23 and 24 October 2008 to distribute the number of starting places new to the confederations: Asia receives instead of the previous 2.5 now three places in the final round. For this, the European contingent will be reduced from five to 4.5. North America continues to receive 2.5 places, while South America and Africa each have two participants. Oceania can send a team to the finals. Between the fifth in the European zone and the third in the North American zone, play-offs are played in a two-legged manner. Then there is the automatically qualified host.

What was new was that at least a third of the affiliated member associations of each confederation had to take part in the qualifying matches with their respective national teams. If this does not happen, the FIFA Executive Committee would assess the number of starting places and reduce it if necessary. In Africa in particular, many associations had withdrawn their teams several times in the past before the start of qualification.

For the European teams, the World Cup also served as a qualifying tournament for the 2012 Olympic Games in London .

5 from Europe	Germany (host)	England	France	Norway	Sweden
2 from South America	Brazil	Colombia *
3 from North, Central America and the Caribbean	Canada	Mexico	United States
2 from Africa	Equatorial Guinea *	Nigeria
3 from Asia	Australia	Japan	North Korea
1 from Oceania	New Zealand

* First participation in each case

mode

Each team played once against each other team in the same group in the preliminary round. A win was rated with three points, a tie with one point. The group first and second reached the quarter-finals, while the group third and fourth were eliminated. If two or more teams are tied, the following criteria are decisive:

1. better goal difference;
2. higher number of goals scored;
3. higher number of points from games between teams with equal points and goals;
4. better goal difference from these games;
5. higher number of goals scored from these games;
6. Fair play rating;
7. Drawing of lots.

The two best teams in each group reached the quarter-finals. If a game ended in a draw from the quarter-finals, an extension of 15 minutes twice was played. If extra time also ends in a draw, the match was decided on penalties .

If a player received her second yellow card in the course of the tournament, she was suspended for the next game, but not for the final or the game for third place.

draw

On November 28, 2010, the FIFA Executive Committee announced the raffle pots for the draw. Germany (group A), Japan (group B), the USA (group C) and Brazil (group D) were set as group heads. These teams were ranked 2, 5, 1 and 3 in the FIFA World Ranking . Pot 2 contained the next best teams outside of Europe according to the world rankings, Pot 3 contained the remaining non-European teams, and Pot 4 contained the remaining European participants.

• Pot 2: Australia (12), North Korea (6), Canada (9), Mexico (22)
• Pot 3: Nigeria (27), Equatorial Guinea (62), New Zealand (23), Colombia (32)
• Pot 4: England (10), France (8), Sweden (4), Norway (7)

FIFA stipulated that there can only be one team per confederation in each group. Group A, in which two teams from Europe played, was an exception. In pot 2, Australia and North Korea could not be drawn in group B and Canada and Mexico could not be drawn in group C. Group D was excluded for Colombia.

The draw for the 2011 World Cup took place on November 29, 2010 in the Frankfurt Congress Center. The former German national soccer player Günter Netzer and the Slovak model Adriana Karembeu , who is also the “ambassador of women's soccer” of the French association , drew the lots. The German pop-rock band Wir sind Helden appeared in the framework of the drawing .

The teams at the 2011 World Cup

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Germany	Japan	United States	Brazil
Canada	New Zealand	North Korea	Australia
Nigeria	Mexico	Colombia	Norway
France	England	Sweden	Equatorial Guinea

Preliminary round

Group A

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Germany	3	3	0	0	007: 300	+4	09
2.	France	3	2	0	1	007: 400	+3	06th
3.	Nigeria	3	1	0	2	001: 200	−1	03
4th	Canada	3	0	0	3	001: 700	−6	00

Sunday, June 26, 2011, 3 p.m. in Sinsheim
Nigeria	-	France	0: 1 (0: 0)
Sunday, June 26, 2011, 6 p.m. in Berlin
Germany	-	Canada	2: 1 (2: 0)
Thursday, June 30, 2011, 6 p.m. in Bochum
Canada	-	France	0: 4 (0: 1)
Thursday, June 30, 2011, 8:45 p.m. in Frankfurt am Main
Germany	-	Nigeria	1: 0 (0: 0)
Tuesday, July 5, 2011, 8:45 p.m. in Mönchengladbach
France	-	Germany	2: 4 (0: 2)
Tuesday, July 5, 2011, 8:45 p.m. in Dresden
Canada	-	Nigeria	0: 1 (0: 0)

Defending champions Germany were group winners with three wins, but could only convince in the game against France. The preliminary round was overshadowed by the discussions about the performance of the German captain Birgit Prinz , who lost her regular place after two weak performances. France secured second place in the group. The players of coach Bruno Bini were able to gain a lot of sympathy with their offensive style of play - no final round participant fired more shots at the opposing goal, not even the US-Americans. Nigeria and Canada had to start their journey home early.

Group B

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	England	3	2	1	0	005: 200	+3	07th
2.	Japan	3	2	0	1	006: 300	+3	06th
3.	Mexico	3	0	2	1	003: 700	−4	02
4th	New Zealand	3	0	1	2	004: 600	−2	01

Monday, June 27, 2011, 3 p.m. in Bochum
Japan	-	New Zealand	2: 1 (1: 1)
Monday, June 27, 2011, 6:00 p.m. in Wolfsburg
Mexico	-	England	1: 1 (1: 1)
Friday, July 1, 2011, 3 p.m. in Leverkusen
Japan	-	Mexico	4: 0 (3: 0)
Friday, July 1, 2011, 6:15 p.m. in Dresden
New Zealand	-	England	1: 2 (1: 0)
Tuesday, July 5, 2011, 6:15 p.m. in Augsburg
England	-	Japan	2: 0 (1: 0)
Tuesday, July 5, 2011, 6:15 p.m. in Sinsheim
New Zealand	-	Mexico	2: 2 (0: 2)

After a bumpy start, the English women won the group for the first time in their World Cup history. Hope Powell's team secured first place with a 2-0 win over secret favorites Japan . Japan moved into the quarter-finals in second place. Homare Sawa scored three goals in the game against Mexico. The underdogs from Mexico and New Zealand were eliminated early. The final game between the two teams was curious, with Mexico leading 2-0 up to the 89th minute and conceding two more goals.

Group C

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Sweden	3	3	0	0	004: 100	+3	09
2.	United States	3	2	0	1	006: 200	+4	06th
3.	North Korea	3	0	1	2	000: 300	−3	01
4th	Colombia	3	0	1	2	000: 400	−4	01

Tuesday, June 28, 2011, 3 p.m. in Leverkusen
Colombia	-	Sweden	0: 1 (0: 0)
Tuesday, June 28, 2011, 6:15 p.m. in Dresden
United States	-	North Korea	2: 0 (0: 0)
Saturday, July 2, 2011, 2 p.m. in Augsburg
North Korea	-	Sweden	0: 1 (0: 0)
Saturday, July 2nd, 2011, 6:00 p.m. in Sinsheim
United States	-	Colombia	3: 0 (1: 0)
Wednesday, July 6, 2011, 8:45 p.m. in Wolfsburg
Sweden	-	United States	2: 1 (2: 0)
Wednesday, July 6, 2011, 8:45 p.m. in Bochum
North Korea	-	Colombia	0-0

Somewhat surprisingly, Sweden prevailed over the USA in the so-called “death group”. After two narrow 1-0 victories, the Scandinavians were able to defeat the USA 2-1. The preliminary round overtook the secret favorites from North Korea and the outsider from Colombia. Both teams remained without a goal. Off the pitch, North Korea made headlines with two doping offenses .

Group D

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Brazil	3	3	0	0	007-000	+7	09
2.	Australia	3	2	0	1	005: 400	+1	06th
3.	Norway	3	1	0	2	002: 500	−3	03
4th	Equatorial Guinea	3	0	0	3	002: 700	−5	00

Wednesday, June 29, 2011, 3 p.m. in Augsburg
Norway	-	Equatorial Guinea	1: 0 (0: 0)
Wednesday, June 29, 2011, 6:15 p.m. in Mönchengladbach
Brazil	-	Australia	1: 0 (0: 0)
Sunday, July 3, 2011, 2 p.m. in Bochum
Australia	-	Equatorial Guinea	3: 2 (1: 1)
Sunday, July 3, 2011, 6:15 p.m. in Wolfsburg
Brazil	-	Norway	3: 0 (1: 0)
Wednesday, July 6, 2011, 6 p.m. in Frankfurt am Main
Equatorial Guinea	-	Brazil	0: 3 (0: 0)
Wednesday, July 6, 2011, 6 p.m. in Leverkusen
Australia	-	Norway	2: 1 (0: 0)

Brazil won their three group games without conceding a goal. The only big surprise of the preliminary round was Australia's 2-1 victory over Norway, with which the "Matildas" reached the quarter-finals. Co-favorite Norway had to travel home for the first time at a World Cup after the preliminary round. Equatorial Guinea as a blatant outsider was bottom of the group.

Final round

	Quarter finals				Semifinals				final
	July 9, 2011 - Wolfsburg
	Germany	0
					July 13, 2011 - Frankfurt am Main
	Japan	21 2
					Japan	3
	July 10, 2011 - Augsburg
					Sweden	1
	Sweden	3
									July 17, 2011 - Frankfurt am Main
	Australia	1
									Japan	12 (3) 1
	July 9, 2011 - Leverkusen
									United States	2 (1)
	England	1 (3)
					July 13, 2011 - Mönchengladbach
	France	11 (4) 1
					France	1			Game for third place
	July 10, 2011 - Dresden
					United States	3
	Brazil	2 (3)							Sweden	2
	United States	12 (5) 1							France	1
									July 16, 2011 - Sinsheim

¹ win on penalties,
² win after extra time

Quarter finals

Saturday, July 9, 2011, 6 p.m. in Leverkusen
England	-	France	1: 1 n.V. (1: 1, 0: 0), 3: 4 i. E.
Saturday, July 9, 2011, 8:45 p.m. in Wolfsburg
Germany	-	Japan	0: 1 a.d.
Sunday, July 10, 2011, 1 p.m. in Augsburg
Sweden	-	Australia	3: 1 (2: 1)
Sunday, July 10th, 2011, 5:30 p.m. in Dresden
Brazil	-	United States	2: 2 n.v. (1: 1, 0: 1), 3: 5 i. E.

The German trainer Silvia Neid after the World Cup

France needed the penalty shoot-out to reach the semi-finals of a World Cup for the first time. Jill Scott gave England the lead, who Elise Bussaglia equalized three minutes before the final whistle. Karen Bardsley saved Camille Abily's attempt on penalties . However, Claire Rafferty and Faye White gave away their attempts on the English side .

Germany went as a loser for the first time after 15 games without defeat at the World Cup. After a goalless 90 minutes, Karina Maruyama scored the only goal of the game in the 108th minute. National coach Silvia Neid came under criticism after the end.

Sweden achieved their only quarter-final victory after 90 minutes with a 3-1 win over Australia. With France and Sweden reaching the semi-finals, the German team missed qualifying for the Olympic Games for the first time .

Brazil were outnumbered by the USA 2-1 when Abby Wambach equalized in the 122nd minute. In the subsequent penalty shootout, US goalkeeper Hope Solo thwarted Daiane's attempt , while all of the US team's shooters converted and the US won the game.

Semifinals

Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 6:00 p.m. in Mönchengladbach
France	-	United States	1: 3 (0: 1)
Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 8:45 p.m. in Frankfurt am Main
Japan	-	Sweden	3: 1 (1: 1)

The US-Americans, who are often classified as favored, were able to move into a World Cup final for the third time with a 3-1 win. Lauren Cheney put the US in the lead after nine minutes. In the period that followed, the French became stronger and after 55 minutes Sonia Bompastor equalized. Abby Wambach in the 79th minute and Alex Morgan in the 82nd minute made the decision.

In the second semi-final, the Swedes took the lead after eleven minutes through Josefine Öqvist . Eight minutes later, the Japanese equalized through Nahomi Kawasumi . The Asians determined much of the rest of the game. Homare Sawa in the 60th minute and again Kawasumi in the 64th minute made it 3-1.

3rd place match

The Swedes Sofia Jakobsson , Josefine Öqvist and Madelaine Edlund after reaching 3rd place

Saturday, July 16, 2011, 5:30 p.m. in Sinsheim
Sweden	-	France	2: 1 (1: 0)

Sweden secured third place. Lotta Schelin brought her team 1-0 lead in the 29th minute of the game. Then France had to replace goalkeeper Bérangère Sapowicz and playmaker Louisa Nécib due to injury; Nevertheless, the French were considered superior and were able to equalize through Élodie Thomis in the 56th minute. Sweden had to play outnumbered from the 68th minute when Josefine Öqvist was given the red card for violating Sonia Bompastor . The Scandinavians won the game with a goal from Marie Hammarström in the 82nd minute. After a controversial corner kick, she shot the ball from the edge of the penalty area into the short corner.

final

Sunday, July 17, 2011, 8:45 p.m. in Frankfurt am Main
Japan	-	United States	2: 2 n.V. (1: 1, 0: 0), 3: 1 i. E.

Press comments on the final

“Forget catastrophes - for a day - whether in Tokyo or elsewhere: winning the World Cup put Japan in high spirits. For a moment the destruction caused by the earthquake and tsunami could be forgotten. "
FAZ (Germany)

"A resilient team relieves the pain of an entire nation."
New York Times

"'Nadeshiko' elevates the nation by surprising victory over American women."
Japan Times

"Japan's defeat of Goliath at the World Cup ended in the final with a glorious 3-1 penalty win over the traditional center of power in the United States."
Daily Mirror

“A fantastic finale. Japan's victory over the USA in the World Cup marked a trend break that everyone was talking about, but no one thought it was coming now. The future of women's football has arrived, a Barcelona-inspired, technical football based on control, skillfulness and patience. ”
Dagens Nyheter (Sweden)

"Japan had no one on the list - World Cup title for women footballers gives a country plagued by disasters strength again"
NZZ (Switzerland)

Japan secured their first World Cup title with a win on penalties against the USA. In the first 45 minutes, the team was superior to the Americans and had several chances to score. In the second half, previously substituted Alex Morgan scored the opening goal for the USA, which Aya Miyama equalized in the 81st minute. It was extended, in which the USA again went into the front through Wambach . The Japanese managed to equalize again through Sawa , so that after 120 minutes of play a penalty shoot-out had to bring about the decision. Before that, in the 120th minute, the Japanese Iwashimizu got the red card because of an emergency brake . Japanese goalkeeper Ayumi Kaihori saved two penalties in the penalty shoot-out, and Carli Lloyd shot over the goal. Abby Wambach scored fourth, so that Japan prevailed 3-1 in a missed shot.

Best goalscorers

Best player and top scorer at the 2011 World Cup was Homare Sawa

space	Player	Gates
1	Homare Sawa	5
2	Marta	4th
	Abby Wambach	4th
4th	Lisa Dahlkvist	3

→ Main article : 2011 Women's World Cup / Statistics # female goal scorers

Japanese Homare Sawa was the tournament's top scorer with five goals. With this she set a new record, because five tournament goals have never been enough for the Golden Shoe. A total of 57 players entered the list of goalscorers. The only own goal came from the Brazilian Daiane . The USA team was the most goal-hungry team with 13 goals. 86 goals were scored during the tournament, which corresponds to an average of 2.69 goals per game. Both values ​​are the lowest in World Cup history.

A public vote on the FIFA website for the “Goal of the Tournament”, for which the world governing body had put ten goals to choose from, resulted in a majority for Abby Wambach's header to make it 2-2 in the quarter-finals against Brazil. In second place came Nahomi Kawasumi's long-range shot to make it 3-1 in the semi-final against Sweden, while Marie Hammarström's winning goal in the small final against France came third .

See also : List of goalscorers from all world championships

Awards

Hope Solo (USA) was voted best goalkeeper.

Golden ball from adidas

Homare Sawa from Japan received the Golden Ball as the best player of the tournament (28.4% of the votes cast). The American Abby Wambach (17.6%) received the Silver Ball and her compatriot Hope Solo (13.3%) received the Bronze Ball . The choice was made by media representatives from a FIFA proposal list, which, in addition to the three winners, included the following players: Sonia Bompastor (France), Lauren Cheney (USA), Kerstin Garefrekes (Germany), Marta (Brazil), Aya Miyama (Japan) ), Louisa Nécib (France), Shinobu Ōno (Japan) and the two Swedes Lotta Schelin and Caroline Seger.

adidas Golden Shoe

The Japanese Homare Sawa also received the Golden Shoe as the most successful goalscorer for her five tournament goals . The Brazilian Marta received the Silver Shoe and the American Abby Wambach the Bronze Shoe . Since both players had scored four goals each, the number of assists decided the ranking.

adidas Golden Glove

The American Hope Solo received the Golden Glove for the best goalkeeping performance of the tournament .

FIFA Fair Play Award

The FIFA Fair Play Award for the fairest team in the tournament went to world champions Japan .

Hyundai "Best Young Player"

For the first time, a prize was awarded to the best female player under the age of 20. This went to the Australian Caitlin Foord .

All-Star Team

A total of 21 players were elected to the All-Star team.

goal	Defense	midfield	attack
Ayumi Kaihori  Hope Solo	Saskia Bartusiak  Sonia Bompastor  Erika  Laura Georges  Elise Kellond-Knight  Alex Scott	Genoveva Añonma  Shannon Boxx  Lauren Cheney  Kerstin Garefrekes  Aya Miyama  Louisa Nécib  Shinobu Ōno  Homare Sawa  Jill Scott  Caroline Seger	Marta  Lotta Schelin  Abby Wambach

Honors of the placed

Sonia Bompastor , Aya Miyama , Alex Morgan , Louisa Nécib , Homare Sawa , Lotta Schelin , Hope Solo and Abby Wambach were shortlisted for the FIFA Ballon d'Or 2011 , Homare Sawa and Abby Wambach and Marta were nominated, and Sawa was awarded. The coaches of the four teams placed, Norio Sasaki , Pia Sundhage , Thomas Dennerby and Bruno Bini were shortlisted for the " FIFA Women's Football Coach 2011 " award; Sasaki, Sundhage and Bini were nominated, and Sasaki was awarded. Abby Wambach was named Sportswoman of the Year by the Women's Sports Foundation. Aya Miyama was named Asian Footballer of the Year. Homare Sawa was also nominated for the Laureus World Sports Awards .

background

Steffi Jones, OC President

Organizing Committee

The Organizing Committee of the 2011 Women's World Cup (OK for short) organized the World Cup in Germany. The former national player Steffi Jones was president of the OC . It started work on January 1, 2008. Federal President Christian Wulff , ( CDU ) took over the patronage for the tournament.

The OC consisted of a presidium chaired by Jones, the DFB presidium as the supervisory body and a twenty-member board of trustees chaired by Thomas Bach . At the opening of the office on January 25, 2008, Jones introduced their five-man leadership team. The managing director of the OK was Uli Wolter , who was the director of the OK field office in Leipzig at the 2006 Men's World Cup . In addition to Wolter, the management team included four department heads. Heike Ulrich was responsible for the tournament organization. Former national player Doris Fitschen headed the marketing department . Winfried Naß headed the “Cities / Stadiums” department. The management team was completed by Jens Grittner , who was press spokesman for the organizing committee at the 2006 Men's World Cup .

In addition to the organizing committee, five ambassadors promoted the World Cup. The former German national players Britta Carlson , Renate Lingor , Sandra Minnert and Silke Rottenberg as well as the marksman Manuela Schmermund were appointed . In addition to these five ambassadors, two city ambassadors were appointed at each venue except Berlin. In February 2010 Rottenberg resigned from office for professional reasons.

City ambassadors
city	ambassador	city	ambassador
augsburg	Magdalena Neuner , Karl-Heinz Riedle	Leverkusen	Britta Heidemann , Carsten Ramelow , Bernd Schneider
Berlin	no ambassador	Mönchengladbach	Dunja Hayali , Rainer Bonhof
Bochum	Shary Reeves , Dariusz Wosz	Sinsheim	Franziska van Almsick , Hansi Flick
Dresden	Stephanie Stumph , Matthias Sammer	Wolfsburg	Britta Carlson , Roy Präger
Frankfurt am Main	Sandra Smisek , Charly Körbel

In order to get as many social groups as possible excited about the sporting event, the top team for 2011 was presented to the public as part of the announcement of the venues on September 30, 2008 in Berlin . This symbolic team consists of eleven prominent women from the fields of business, art and culture, sports and media. In addition to German Chancellor Angela Merkel had a "team manager" the economist Beatrice Weder di Mauro , the actress Maria Furtwängler , Renan Demirkan and Ulrike Folkerts , the pop musician Nena , the athletes Magdalena Neuner , Franziska van Almsick and Britta Heidemann and Moderators Dunja Hayali , Shary Reeves and Monica Lierhaus were won over to the idea.

Prize money

In 2007, the participants received prize money for the first time. In 2011 the amount was increased, now the participating teams received the following prize money, depending on their placement:

• World Champion: $ 1,000,000
• Vice World Champion: $ 800,000
• Third: $ 650,000
• Fourth: $ 550,000
• Quarter-finalists: $ 350,000
• 9th to 16th place: $ 250,000

In addition, each association received $ 75,000 for preparation. On July 16, Sepp Blatter announced that the prize money had been increased to $ 10 million. How the distribution will take place will be announced.

Sponsors and game ball

Official " Speedcell " ball in a display case

The DFB expected a budget of 51 million euros. Half of the money should come from the sale of tickets and half from a total of twelve sponsors . These were divided into six main sponsors known as “FIFA Partners”: adidas , Coca-Cola , Emirates , Hyundai Kia Motors , Sony and Visa , who have international advertising rights, and six sponsors called “national sponsors”: The telecommunications company became Germans Telekom , Commerzbank , insurance group Allianz , retail group Rewe , Deutsche Post and Deutsche Bahn signed agreements. The sponsors are identical to those of the U20 Women's World Cup from 2010.

The Speedcell sold by FIFA partner adidas was used as a match ball .

tickets

A total of one million tickets were available, 700,000 of which went on sale. Half of these 700,000 cards were offered at reduced prices and were aimed primarily at families, clubs and schools, the core target group of the organizing committee. The DFB calculated an occupancy rate of 80 percent, which corresponds to an average attendance of 25,000. In total, the DFB is expecting revenues of 27 million euros from the sale of the tickets.

For the first time in a women's World Cup, there were no two games in a row on one day in the same stadium. By dispensing with the so-called " double headers ", the organizing committee promised to upgrade the individual games.

On April 22, 2009, a ticket portal was opened on the Internet, where those interested could register to buy tickets. The first sales phase began on October 29, 2009 and ended after an extension on August 31, 2010. During this phase, only city series were offered. Each city series included all four games at one venue (Mönchengladbach three games). Only for Berlin was no city series offered, as there was only one game (opening game). The city series tickets cost between 30 euros and 415 euros (Frankfurt series including final ticket in the highest price category). In the second sales phase, which ran from February 17 to August 31, 2010, so-called “20-eleven tickets” were offered for larger groups. Each “team”, which consisted of at least eleven “players”, received a 20 percent discount on ticket prices. This offer was aimed primarily at schools and clubs. Tickets for individual games were sold from the third phase, which started on September 15, 2010. The prices for the cards were between 10 and 200 euros. Further single tickets were sold between January 20 and February 20, 2011. On March 18, 2011, exactly 100 days before the opening game between Germany and Canada, the final sales phase for tickets to the World Cup began. The contract was awarded after served basis .

In contrast to the tickets that were offered for the 2006 Men's World Cup in Germany, the tickets for the 2011 Women's World Cup were not personalized . With a city series card, it was possible that different people could use the same card in different games.

Quarters

In contrast to the men, where all teams had one or two ( Brazil ) permanent quarters in 2006 , the women traveled from venue to venue and stayed in hotels at or near the venue. Occasionally both teams stayed in the same hotel.

TEAM 2011 campaign

On July 1, 2009, the DFB started the school and club campaign TEAM 2011. With it, the DFB set itself the goal of intensifying the cooperation between the football clubs and schools and getting more girls interested in football. The DFB invested a total of 19.3 million euros in the project. The sponsors of the campaign were the national coach of the German women's national team, Silvia Neid, and Joachim Löw , the national coach of the German men's national team. Navina Omilade and Lukas Podolski acted as godparents .

reporting

In Germany, the transferred public television stations ARD and ZDF four all 32 tournament games live, including in the digital channels EinsFestival and ZDFinfokanal . In addition, Eurosport and Eurosport 2 broadcast all games live. The Austrian broadcaster ORF Sport Plus also showed some games. In England, BBC Red Button and the BBC Sports website broadcast the English team's matches live, BBC Two broadcast summaries and the final was broadcast live on BBC Three . In Sweden, TV4 , TV4 Sport and TV11 all broadcast games. In Norway, NRK showed a large part of the games. In the US , ESPN and ESPN2 showed all 32 World Cup games live; former players Brandi Chastain and Briana Scurry as well as former coach Tony DiCicco analyzed the games.

The audience response to the television broadcast was higher than expected. The opening match Germany - Canada achieved a market share of around 60 percent with over 15 million viewers. The odds on the first day of the preliminary round (without German participation) were between 20 and 26 percent, the final of the tournament saw 15.3 million viewers, the market share was 46.6 percent.

Culture

Venue logo for Mönchengladbach

The official logo of the 2011 World Cup was presented on April 19, 2008 as part of the DFB Cup final by Steffi Jones and Franz Beckenbauer in the Berlin Olympic Stadium . The sign stands under the motto "Arena Germany". It shows a stylized stadium surrounded by curved stripes in the national colors of black, red and gold , and in one corner the FIFA Women's World Cup . The logo was designed by the Stuttgart agency "wvp".

In addition to the tournament logo, a venue logo was created for each venue that represents the particular characteristics of the city. For example, the Bochum venue logo shows the headframe of a mine . The venue logos are intended to encourage anticipation of the tournament.

During the opening game of the U-20 World Cup 2010 on July 13, 2010 in Bochum, the mascot of the 2011 World Cup was presented with the cat Karla Kick . The mascot was developed by the Frankfurt creative agency GMR Marketing GmbH and, according to OC President Steffi Jones, “stands for the most important attributes of women's football in an impressive way: passion, fun and dynamism”.

For the World Cup, the Federal Ministry of Finance issued two special stamps designed by Henning Wagenbreth in the “For Sport” series of surcharges to support the German Sports Aid Foundation . The two brands with the values ​​"45 + 20" and "55 + 25" were published on April 7, 2011 .

The Italian company Panini first released a scrapbook for a women's world championship on June 6, 2011 . Panini has been publishing scrapbooks at the men's world championships since 1970. For each team 19 of the 21 players in the squad were presented with pictures. As the album - as with the men's world championships - was printed before the final squad was determined, the album partly contains non-nominated players, e.g. B. A picture of Anja Mittag on the German team , but she was not in the German team's squad.

The title Happiness by the American singer and actress Alexis Jordan was chosen as the official song of the 2011 World Cup . FIFA Marketing Director Thierry Weil described the song as "a great song that captures the playful nature of women's football and the FIFA Women's World Cup".

On June 19, 2011, exactly one week before the opening game, Das Erste showed episode 805 of the crime series Tatort , which deals with a murder case in women's football. In the SWR production entitled Im Abseits, Commissioner Odenthal investigates the murderer of the (fictional) Turkish Bundesliga player Fadime Gülüc (played by the former Turkish national player Filiz Koç ), who was supposed to play in the German national team at the World Cup. Her life story shows certain parallels with Fatmire Bajramaj . The film shows problems with integration in sport and the struggle of female soccer players for social recognition. Theo Zwanziger , Steffi Jones , Célia Okoyino da Mbabi , Joachim Löw and Oliver Bierhoff can be seen in supporting roles .

On June 9, 2011, the Federal Ministry of Finance released a commemorative coin designed by the Berlin artist Alina Hoyer . The edge of the coin reads: "THE FUTURE OF FOOTBALL IS FEMALE"

Controversy

Human rights

At the invitation of the former national soccer player Petra Landers , the Iranian human rights activist and sports photographer Maryam Majd wanted to travel to the women's soccer World Cup in Germany in June 2011 to accompany the players with photos and to publish a book about the tournament. She was arrested before leaving for Germany.

Shortly after the start of the tournament, it became known that the Nigerian national coach Ngozi Eucharia Uche had banned all lesbian players from the national team in the run-up to the World Cup . Uche justified this with the fact that she could not tolerate the "dirty way of life" of the lesbians. The world association FIFA initially did not react to Uche's statements. After Tatjana Haenni, FIFA's head of department for women's football competitions, announced that she would ask the Nigerian coach about the issue, Uche denied ever having made such statements.

Equatorial Guinea

The Equatorial Guinean player Jade Boho Sayo was banned from FIFA for two months shortly after the tournament began. A native Spaniard took in 2004 with the Spanish U-19 selection of the European part and will also be available team A Spanish have played. Because of this offense, Equatorial Guinea was disqualified from the 2012 Summer Olympics .

Equatorial Guinea are also accused by other African teams of using men in qualifying matches. Suspects are the sisters Bilinguisa and Salimata Simpore , both of whom were not nominated for the world championship. The allegations have not yet been proven. In addition, the correctness of the naturalization of seven native Brazilians is questioned.

doping

The Colombian replacement goalkeeper Yineth Varón was "due to a non-standard analytical result" in a doping sample before the encounter of the group C between Sweden and Colombia having a protective barrier occupied. Varón applied in due time for the analysis of the B sample, which confirmed the result of the A sample. According to the Colombian federation, the player had not told the team doctor about a hormone treatment carried out before the tournament.

In the run-up to the final group C match between North Korea and Colombia, urine samples from North Korean players Song Jong-sun and Jong Pok-sim detected “a substance from group S1B” ( steroid hormones ). The North Korean association refrained from analyzing the B sample, which experts commonly regard as an admission of guilt. After the game, North Korea's entire World Cup squad was asked for a doping control. On July 16, FIFA announced that three other unnamed players from the North Korean team had been convicted of doping. 14 different steroids were found in all female athletes, four of which were on the doping list.

The North Korean players Jong Pok-sim, Hong Myong-hui , Ho Un-byol and Ri Un-hyang who were convicted of doping during the World Cup were banned by FIFA on August 25, 2011 for 18 months and Song Jong-sun for 14 months. The North Korean Football Association doctor Nam Jong-ae has been banned for six years. The North Korean Football Association was also fined US $ 400,000. The national team was excluded from the 2015 World Cup in Canada. Colombian player Yineth Varón has been suspended for two years.

Marta

The Brazilian soccer player Marta was whistled by the audience when she hit the ball, especially in the games against Norway and the USA. In the game against Norway, the foul against Nora Holstad Berge , which preceded her first goal, was the reason, against the USA the repetition of the penalty missed by Cristiane and the red card for Rachel Buehler . In addition, in some situations, when she disagreed with the referees' decisions, she gesticulated and "complained" and demanded cards for the opponents, but in the eyes of the audience she shone as a great actress who suffered from "acute epilepsy". In the game against Norway, however, the public's expressions of displeasure subsided after their second goal. She had also made herself unpopular outside of the square, as she only granted autograph requests when TV cameras were nearby. In Dresden, Marta sometimes yelled at fans after the TV people disappeared.

Referees

FIFA nominated a total of 16 referees , 32 assistant referees and two fourth officials for the final tournament . The oldest referee was the 41-year-old Swede Jenny Palmqvist , and the youngest referee was the 28-year-old Fijian Finau Vulivuli .

Association	Referee	Games				4. O.		Assistant 1	Assistant 2
AFC	Jacqui Melksham	2	10	0	1	2		Allyson Flynn	Sarah Ho
	Cha Sung Mi	1	2	0	0	1		Shamsuri Widiya	Kim Kyoung Min
	Etsuko Fukano	2	4th	0	0	2		Saori Takahashi	Zhang Lingling
CAF	Thérèse Neguel	1	0	0	0	3		Tempa Ndah François	Lidwine Rakotozafinoro
CONCACAF	Carol Chenard	3	2	0	0	2		Marlene Duffy Emperatriz Ayala Rita Munoz	Emperatriz Ayala Cindy Mohammed Mayte Chavez
	Kari Seitz	3	1	0	1	1		Marlene Duffy	Veronica Perez
	Quetzalli Alvarado Godínez	2	7th	0	0	3		Rita Munoz	Mayte Chavez
CONMEBOL	Sivia Reyes	2	6th	0	0	2		Mariana Corbo	Marlene Leyton
	Estela Álvarez	2	4th	0	0	1		Maria Rocco	Yoly García
OFC	Finau Vulivuli	1	1	0	0	2		Jacqui Stephenson	Lata Tuifutuna
UEFA	Kirsi Heikkinen	3	9	0	1	0		Anu Jokela	Tonja Paavola
	Christina W. Pedersen	2	0	0	0	2		Maintain Steinlund	Lada Rojc
	Jenny Palmqvist	3	6th	0	0	1		Helen Karo	Anna Nyström
	Bibiana stone house	3	6th	0	1	1		Katrin Rafalski	Marina Wozniak
	Kateryna Monsul	0	0	0	0	3
	Dagmar Damková	1	1	0	0	2		Maria Luisa Villa Gutierrez	Yolanda Parga Rodriguez
	Thalia Mitsi	0	0	0	0	3
	Gyöngyi Gaál	1	4th	0	0	1		Cristina Cini	Nathalie Walker

While five referees were only used once, Carol Chenard, Kirsi Heikkinen, Jenny Palmqvist, Kari Seitz and Bibiana Steinhaus were each used three times. The first game of the tournament was directed by the American Kari Seitz, the final by Bibiana Steinhaus. The referees awarded 63 yellow and 4 red cards. 4 penalties were awarded.

The performance of the referees was controversial. The South Korean Cha Sung-mi left the numerous tough attacks of the Nigerians largely unpunished in the preliminary round match between Germany and Nigeria. In the game between Equatorial Guinea and Australia, the Equatorial Guinean defender Bruna caught a rebound from the post with her hand and held the game device for several seconds. The Hungarian referee Gyöngyi Gaál did not give a penalty here. The team of referees also had problems recognizing which player had last touched the ball when the ball got into the touch or go out, so that there were some throws for the wrong team and unjustified corners or goal kicks. Holger Osieck , who coaches the Australian men's national team and followed the game in the stadium, suggested using (more) male referees. However, there was also considerable criticism of the referees at the men's soccer world championships in Germany in 2006 and in South Africa in 2010 .

Impact on the FIFA World Ranking

In the FIFA world rankings , which was recalculated on July 22, 2011, there were no changes in the top five places compared to the last calculation on March 18, 2011. The top five, however, moved closer together because the USA and Germany lost points while Brazil, Japan and Sweden gained points. The point difference between the first (USA) and fifth (Sweden) was almost halved.

Equatorial Guinea (six places, whereby most of the points were received for the Olympic qualifying games against Cameroon, although the team was subsequently disqualified for playing a player who was not eligible to play), England (four places) improved the rankings. , Australia, Colombia and New Zealand (two places each). Norway (one place), Canada (two places) and North Korea (four places) have deteriorated. England, Australia, Colombia and Equatorial Guinea could achieve their best placement so far.

Web links

Commons : Football Women's World Cup 2011  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of FIFA
• Federal Agency for Civic Education - Information on the 2011 Women's World Cup

Individual evidence

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3. ↑ dfb.de: World Cup slogan 2011: 20ELF FROM ITS MOST BEAUTIFUL SIDE! ( Memento from September 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ The men's soccer world championship has not yet been held in the country of the defending champion. In the junior sector, this has so far applied to the 1991 Junior World Cup in Portugal and the 2009 U-17 World Cup in Nigeria.
5. ↑ Kaihori gives Japan its first world title . In: kicker.de , July 17, 2011, accessed on July 18, 2011.
6. ↑ Zwanziger announces application for the 2011 Women's World Cup. ( Memento from March 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Originally in: fussball.com , January 26, 2006.
7. ↑ Angela Merkel supports the 2011 Women's World Cup in Germany . ( Memento of the original from May 26, 2011 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. In: deutschland.de . 
8. ↑ FF Magazine No. 20, page 18
9. ↑ DFB only European candidate for the 2011 Women's World Cup . ( Memento of 3 November 2007 at the Internet Archive ) In: dfb.de .
10. ↑ World Cup 2011: France's withdrawal apparently a done deal . In: womensoccer.de .
11. ↑ dFB.de: 23 cities are competing for the 2011 World Cup in Germany
12. ↑ faz.net: Frankfurt is to host the women's World Cup final ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
13. ↑ dfb.de: DFB names twelve cities and stadiums for the 2011 Women's World Cup
14. ↑ dfb.de: Wolfsburg named as the third World Cup city for 2011
15. ↑ http://de.fifa.com/womensworldcup/destination/stadiums/index.html
16. ↑ ^{a b} Destination - Augsburg. FIFA Women's World Cup Stadium Augsburg. (No longer available online.) In: FIFA Women's World Cup. FIFA.com, archived from the original on June 27, 2011 ; accessed on June 28, 2011 : “During the FIFA Women's World Cup 2011, the stadium will have 24,605 ​​seats.” Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
17. ↑ ^{a b} Destination - Berlin. Olympiastadion Berlin. (No longer available online.) In: FIFA Women's World Cup. FIFA.com, archived from the original on December 23, 2010 ; accessed on June 28, 2011 : "With a capacity of 73,680 seats (during the FIFA Women's World Cup 2011) it is the largest of the nine World Cup stadiums [...]." Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
18. ↑ ^{a b} Destination - Bochum. FIFA Women's World Cup Stadium Bochum. (No longer available online.) In: FIFA Women's World Cup. FIFA.com, archived from the original on June 27, 2011 ; accessed on June 28, 2011 : "Due to [...] conversions and renovations [...] the stadium for the FIFA Women's World Cup held 20,452 spectators." Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
19. ↑ http://www.radiobochum.de/Lokalnachrichten.592+M53772d02b98.0.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
20. ↑ ^{a b} Destination - Dresden. Rudolf Harbig Stadium Dresden. (No longer available online.) In: FIFA Women's World Cup. FIFA.com, archived from the original on June 27, 2011 ; accessed on June 28, 2011 : "With a capacity of 25,598 seats (during the FIFA Women's World Cup 2011), the stadium is the home ground of third division club SG Dynamo Dresden." Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
21. ↑ ^{a b} Destination - Frankfurt. FIFA Women's World Cup Stadium Frankfurt. (No longer available online.) In: FIFA Women's World Cup. FIFA.com, archived from the original on August 29, 2011 ; accessed on June 28, 2011 : "With a capacity of 48,817 seats (during the FIFA Women's World Cup 2011), today's stadium is located on the site of the legendary Frankfurt Waldstadion [...]." 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.  
22. ↑ ^{a b} Destination - Leverkusen. FIFA Women's World Cup Stadium Leverkusen. (No longer available online.) In: FIFA Women's World Cup. FIFA.com, archived from the original on February 26, 2011 ; accessed on June 28, 2011 : "The previous grandstand area was expanded and increased from a capacity of 22,500 to 29,870 seats (during the FIFA Women's World Cup 2011)." 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.  
23. ↑ ^{a b} Destination - Mönchengladbach. Stadium in Borussia-Park Mönchengladbach. (No longer available online.) In: FIFA Women's World Cup. FIFA.com, archived from the original on June 27, 2011 ; accessed on June 28, 2011 : "With 45,867 partially covered seats, it is the third largest stadium of the FIFA Women's World Cup 2011 after Berlin and Frankfurt." Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
24. ↑ ^{a b} Destination - Sinsheim. Rhein-Neckar-Arena Sinsheim. (No longer available online.) In: FIFA Women's World Cup. FIFA.com, archived from the original on August 29, 2011 ; accessed on June 28, 2011 : "[The stadium] will offer 25,475 covered seats during the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup." Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
25. ↑ ^{a b c} Destination - Wolfsburg. Arena in the Allerpark Wolfsburg. (No longer available online.) In: FIFA Women's World Cup. FIFA.com, archived from the original on August 29, 2011 ; accessed on June 28, 2011 : "The Arena Im Allerpark Wolfsburg offers space for 26,067 spectators during the tournament [...]." 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.  
26. ↑ zdf.de: Blatter wants to continue opening WM ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2007 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. 
27. ↑ n-tv.de: FIFA against team increase
28. ↑ dfb.de: Soccer - WMWoman-WM 2011 with 16 teams
29. ↑ dfb.de: FIFA awards 2010 U20 Women's World Cup to Germany
30. ↑ womensoccer.de: Women's Soccer World Cup 2011: Asia gets third place on the grid
31. ↑ FIFA.com: Regulations FIFA Women's World Cup Germany 2011 ™ (PDF; 281 kB) Article 25
32. ↑ DFB.de: FIFA Women's World Cup 2011 - Tournament mode - The most important rules for the World Cup finals ( Memento from July 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
33. ↑ fifa.com: FIFA Women's World Cup 2011: Procedure for the draw
34. ↑ dfb.de: Blatter, Kahn and Adriana Karembeu as guests at the World Cup draw ( memento of the original from October 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
35. ↑ derwesten.de: Harsh criticism of Silvia Neid because of the World Cup
36. ↑ see the match reports at kicker.de and FIFA.com
37. ↑ [1]
38. ↑ Original text: "A Resilient Team Soothes a Nation" [2] , translation: Frankfurter Rundschau July 19, 2011, p. 25
39. ↑ Original text: "'Nadeshiko' lift nation with surprise victory over Americans" [3]
40. ↑ Original text: "Japan's giant-killing World Cup campaign ended in glory with a 3-1 penalty shoot-out win over traditional powerhouse the United States in the final." [4] , translation: Frankfurter Rundschau July 19, 2011, p. 25th
41. ↑ Original text: “En fantastisk final. Japan's triumf över USA i fotbolls-VM markerar trendbrottet alla talat om, men som ingen trodde skulle komma redan nu. Framtidens damfotboll has anlänt, en Barcelonainspirerad, technical fotboll som bygger på control, passningsskicklighet och tålamod. " [5]
42. ↑ Japan had no one on the list. In: nzz.ch. July 18, 2011, accessed October 14, 2018 . 
43. ↑ FIFA.com: Match Report
44. ↑ see "Goal of the Tournament" on the FIFA website (with videos of the ten goals)
45. ↑ FIFA.com: Double Honor for Sawa (accessed May 20, 2017)
46. ↑ dfb.de: Kerstin Garefrekes nominated for Golden Ball
47. ↑ Positions according to Footofeminin.fr , FIFA has assigned some players differently.
48. ↑ FIFA.com: Women's preselection for the FIFA Ballon d'Or 2011 Gala ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
49. ↑ FIFA.com: A trio and many others
50. ↑ ussoccer.com: Abby Wambach Named Women's Sports Foundation Sportswoman of the Year ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2011 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.  
51. ↑ FIFA.com: Honor for Miyama - Canada convinced ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
52. ↑ dfb.de: DFB appoints Steffi Jones as OC President for the 2011 World Cup ( memento of the original from October 11, 2016 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. 
53. ↑ dfb.de: Federal President Wulff assumes patronage
54. ↑ WM Board of Trustees chaired by Dr. Thomas Bach
55. ↑ dfb.de: Beckenbauer handed over the key to Steffi Jones
56. ↑ dfb.de: World Cup ambassadors
57. ↑ fifa.com: Silke Rottenberg is retiring as World Cup ambassador
58. ↑ dfb.de: OK presents "Top-Elf for 2011"
59. ↑ FIFA Women's World Cup Germany 2011 ™ History & Numbers Statistical Kit 2. (PDF; 972 kB) Prize Money breakdown. fifa.com, May 27, 2011, p. 6 , accessed June 26, 2011 (English). 
60. ↑ FIFA.com: Blatter: "Women's football has become more global" (Accessed July 17, 2011)
61. ↑ dfb.de: Deutsche Bahn national sponsor of the FIFA Women's World Cup 2011
62. ↑ dfb.de: WM 2011: This is how ticket sales work ( Memento from November 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
63. ↑ dfb.de: Niersbach starts the TEAM 2011 World Cup campaign
64. ↑ womensoccer.de: WM fed up on ARD and ZDF
65. ↑ Women's World Cup campaign live on BBC
66. ↑ fotbollskanalen.se: Se hela dam-VM i TV4, TV4 Sport och TV11 - här är alla tv-tider
67. ↑ fotball.no:NRKS VM-PROGRAM
68. ↑ US WNT Arrives in Austria to Prepare for 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
69. ↑ Women's World Cup: quotas will still rise . www.dfb.de. June 30, 2011. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
70. ↑ Uwe Mantel: Over 15 million saw the final of the Women's World Cup. DWDL, July 18, 2011, accessed on July 18, 2011 . 
71. ↑ dfb.de: "Arena Germany" as the logo of the 2011 Women's World Cup
72. ↑ dfb.de: Venue logos "increase anticipation for the tournament"
73. ↑ dfb.de: A cat as the new mascot of the FIFA Women's World Cup 2011 ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
74. ↑ fifa.com: Women's premiere at Panini
75. ↑ alexisjordanofficial.com: "Happiness" chosen as the official song of the FIFA Women's World Cup 2011 ( memento of the original from June 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
76. ↑ Christian Buß : Women's football in the "Tatort": The curves must be in the square. Spiegel Online , June 17, 2011, accessed June 20, 2011 . 
77. ↑ 10 Euro commemorative coin "WOMEN'S FOOTBALL WORLD CUP in GERMANY"
78. ↑ spiegel.de: Iran prevents prominent photographer from going to the World Cup
79. ↑ t-online.de: Nigeria causes a scandal by excluding lesbian players ( memento of the original from July 1, 2011 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. 
80. ↑ Uche stated verbatim, “Yes, the lesbians on our team were really a big problem. But since I've been the Falcons trainer, that's all gone. There is no longer a lesbian player on my team. We need divine intervention to control and limit homosexuality. It worked for us. I can't tolerate this dirty way of life. ”
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81. ↑ Football World Cup: Homophobia Debate on Nigeria's women's team
82. ↑ spox.com: Equatorial Guinea disqualified for the 2012 Olympics
83. ↑ spiegel.de: Fifa bans the national player of Equatorial Guinea
84. ↑ faz.de: "Do you see men on the square here?"
85. ↑ Player profile of Yineth Varon , fifa.com (accessed July 7, 2011)
86. ↑ Many scoring opportunities and a doping case , Spiegel Online from June 28, 2011 (accessed on July 7, 2011)
87. ↑ ^{a b} North Korea waives opening of the B sample , Spiegel Online from July 7, 2011 (accessed on July 7, 2011)
88. ↑ North Korean Players Fail Drug Tests at Women's World Soccer Championship , bloomberg.com, July 7, 2011 (accessed July 10, 2011)
89. ↑ Two players from North Korea tested positive  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Thüringische Landeszeitung from July 7, 2011 (accessed on July 10, 2011)  
90. ↑ Players from North Korea suspected of doping , Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 7, 2011 (accessed July 7, 2011)
91. ^ Doping scandal in North Korea , kicker.de from July 6, 2011 (accessed on July 7, 2011)
92. ↑ framba.de: Further doping cases at the women's soccer world championship ( Memento of the original from January 10, 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. , July 7, 2011, accessed July 12, 2011  
93. ↑ Three more North Koreans tested positive , kicker.de from July 16, 2011 (accessed on October 12, 2012)
94. ↑ FIFA excludes North Korea from the Women's World Cup , kicker.de from August 25, 2011 (accessed April 11, 2013)
95. ↑ Marta makes the difference. Kicker, July 3, 2011, accessed July 23, 2011 . 
96. ↑ Marta: Brazil's diva-like superstar loses reputation. (No longer available online.) July 11, 2011, archived from the original on July 18, 2011 ; Retrieved July 21, 2011 . 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.  
97. ↑ fifa.com: List of FIFA referees and assistant referees FIFA Women's World Cup 2011 Germany (PDF; 539 kB)
98. ↑ kicker.de: "When it comes to your bones, you are completely overwhelmed"
99. ↑ FIFA.com: FIFA Women's World Ranking