Football Women's World Cup 2015 / England

This article is about the English national football team of the women in the soccer World Cup Women 2015 in Canada . England took part in the final round for the fourth time, survived the first knockout round for the first time and became third and best European team for the first time with their first win against Germany .

qualification

England met for the first time in Europe qualifying group 6 against Montenegro , Turkey , Ukraine , Wales and Belarus . The English team won all games and easily qualified for the world championship. Only in the third from last game did the team in Ukraine accept the only goal after a 2-0 lead, but were able to win the game and thus reach a preliminary decision. With a 4-0 win in the penultimate game against Wales, England qualified as the second European team for the World Cup. Ukraine failed in the playoff games of the best runners-up in the group to Italy, which could not qualify either.

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	England	10	10	0	0	052: 100	+51	30th
2.	Ukraine	10	7th	1	2	034: 900	+25	22nd
3.	Wales	10	6th	1	3	018: 900	+9	19th
4th	Turkey	10	4th	0	6th	012:310	−19	12
5.	Belarus	10	2	0	8th	012:310	−19	06th
6th	Montenegro	10	0	0	10	006:530	−47	00

England - Belarus on September 21, 2013 in Bournemouth	6: 0 (4: 0)
1: 0, 3: 0, 4: 0 Carney (3rd, 26th, 40th), 2: 0 White (13th), 5: 0 Dowie (60th), 6: 0 Aluko (62nd)
England - Turkey on September 26, 2013 in Portsmouth	8: 0 (6: 0)
1: 0, 2: 0, 5: 0 Duggan (2nd, 3rd, 37th), 3: 0, 6: 0 White (30th, 39th), 4: 0, 7: 0 Aluko (33th) , 49.), 8: 0 Dowie (75.)
England - Wales on October 26, 2013 in London	2: 0 (0: 0)
1-0 Nobbs (48th), 2-0 Duggan (57th)
Turkey - England on October 31, 2013 in Adana	0: 4 (0: 2)
0: 1 Aluko (10th), 0: 2 Williams (17th / penalty), 0: 3 Duggan (48th), 0: 4 Nobbs (60th)
England - Montenegro on April 5, 2014 in Falmer	9: 0 (4: 0)
1: 0, 2: 0, 8: 0 Duggan (2nd, 13th, 71st), 3: 0 Aluko (37th), 4: 0 J. Scott (40th), 5: 0 Carney (49th) ), 6-0 Sanderson (55th), 7-0 Stokes (69th), 9-0 Dowie (84th)
England - Ukraine on May 8, 2014 in Shrewsbury	4: 0 (1: 0)
1: 0, 3: 0 Dowie (41st, 53rd), 2: 0, 4: 0 Aluko (49th, 63rd)
Belarus - England on June 14, 2014 in Minsk	0: 3 (0: 2)
0: 1 Aluko (30th), 0: 2 Houghton (36th), 0: 3 bronze (90 + 4th)
Ukraine - England on June 19, 2014 in Lviv	1: 2 (0: 2)
0: 1 Stoney (11th), 0: 2 Aluko (14th), 1: 2 Ovdiychuk (63rd)
Wales - England on August 21, 2014 in Cardiff	0: 4 (0: 4)
0: 1 Carney (16th), 0: 2 Aluko (39th), 0: 3 Bassett (44th), 0: 4 Sanderson (45th)
Montenegro - England on September 17, 2014 in Petrovac na moru	0:10 (0: 4)
0: 1, 0: 3, 0: 7 Aluko (8th, 31st, 64th), 0: 2, 0: 5 Carney (22nd, 51st), 0: 4 bronze (37th), 0: 6, 0:10 Duggan (56th, 90 + 4th), 0: 8 Greenwood (90th), 0: 9 Potter (90 + 3rd)

Overall, the coach Brent Hills , who had taken over the post after the failed European Championship 2013 for four games, and Mark Sampson 28 players, including four goalkeepers. Only Eniola Aluko and record national player Fara Williams , who set Rachel Yankey's record in the Ukraine game on June 19, 2014 , were used in all ten games. Lucy Bronze came on nine missions , and Alex Scott and Jill Scott , who was often only substituted on. The top scorer was Eniola Aluko with 13 goals. She was the second best goalscorer in Europe together with the Scot Jane Ross and the French Gaëtane Thiney and was only surpassed by the 18-year-old Dutchwoman Vivianne Miedema and the Jamaican Shakira Duncan , who both scored 16 goals. Toni Duggan scored nine goals, Karen Carney scored seven goals and Natasha Dowie scored five goals .

preparation

The English started after the successful qualification but before all qualifying games were finished with the preparation with a test match on August 3, 2014 in Hartlepool against Sweden , which they won 4-0. After the qualifying games, they played a game at Wembley Stadium for the first time on November 23, 2014 , which they lost 3-0 to European champions Germany in front of a record crowd of 45,619 spectators . On February 13, 2015, a friendly against the USA took place in Milton Keynes , which was lost 1-0. In March, the team took part in the traditional Cyprus Cup again and met Finland (3: 1) on March 4, and the World Cup participants Australia (3: 0 on March 6) and the Netherlands (1: 1 on March 9). March). In the final on March 11th, the English met World Cup hosts and record winners Canada and drew 1-0 with the Canadians in the number of titles. A friendly against France planned for April before the World Cup was canceled in December 2014 because the two teams will meet in the group stage at the World Cup. Instead, England played against China on April 9 and won 2-1. On May 29, England played again against World Cup hosts Canada in Hamilton and lost 1-0.

The team

Contingent

On May 11, the squad of 23 players (including three goalkeepers) was nominated, and the FIFA general secretariat must be notified at least ten working days before the opening match.

No.	Surname	Date of birth	debut	society	Calls	Gates	World Cup games	Last use	World Cup 2015
									Sp.
goal
1	Karen Bardsley	10/14/1984	2005	Manchester City WFC	51	-	4 (2011)	04/07/2015	7th		1
13	Siobhan Chamberlain	08/15/1983	2004	Arsenal LFC	34	-	0 ( 2011 )	06/27/2015	1
21st	Carly Telford	07/07/1987	2009	Notts County LFC	6th	-	0 ( 2007 )	03/04/2015
Defense
6th	Laura Bassett	08/02/1983	2003	Notts County LFC	55	2	1 (2011)	04/07/2015	6th		1
12	Lucy bronze	10/28/1991	2013	Manchester City WFC	23	4th		04/07/2015	6th	2
14th	Alex Greenwood	09/07/1993	2014	Notts County LFC	16	1		04/07/2015	3
5	Steph Houghton	04/23/1988	2007	Manchester City WFC	61	8th	1 (2011)	04/07/2015	7th	1
3	Claire Rafferty	01/11/1989	2010	Chelsea LFC	15th	0	1 (2011)	07/01/2015	5		1
2	Alex Scott	10/14/1984	2004	Arsenal LFC	127	12	8 (2007, 2011)	07/01/2015	4th		1
15th	Casey Stoney	05/13/1982	2000	Arsenal LFC	122	6th	8 (2007, 2011)	04/07/2015	3
midfield
16	Katie Chapman	06/15/1982	2000	Chelsea LFC	91	8th	3 (2007)	04/07/2015	5		2
11	Jade Moore	10/22/1990	2012	Birmingham City LFC	23	1		07/01/2015	6th		1
7th	Jordan Nobbs	December 8, 1992	2013	Arsenal LFC	22nd	3		06/17/2015	1
17th	Jo Potter	11/13/1984	2004	Birmingham City LFC	21st	2		04/07/2015	2
8th	Jill Scott	02/02/1987	2006	Manchester City WFC	97	13	8 (2007, 2011)	04/07/2015	6th
4th	Fara Williams	01/25/1984	2001	Liverpool LFC	147	40	6 (2007, 2011)	04/07/2015	7th	3
attack
9	Eniola Aluko	02/21/1987	2004	Chelsea LFC	94	32	6 (2007, 2011)	04/07/2015	3
10	Karen Carney	08/01/1987	2005	Birmingham City LFC	110	25th	7 (2007, 2011)	04/07/2015	6th	2	1
18th	Toni Duggan	07/25/1991	2012	Manchester City WFC	31	14th		07/01/2015	5
22nd	Fran Kirby	06/29/1993	2014	Reading FC Women	13	3		06/22/2015	4th	1
20th	Lianne Sanderson	02/03/1988	2006	Arsenal LFC	49	15th	1 (2007)	04/07/2015	2
19th	Jodie Taylor	05/17/1986	2014	Portland Thorns	12	5		07/01/2015	4th	1
23	Ellen White	05/09/1989	2010	Notts County Ladies	55	17th	4 (2011)	04/07/2015	4th
Coaching staff
Trainer	Mark Sampson	10/18/1982	2013	The Football Association					7th

1. ↑ ^{a b} Status: July 4th, 2015 (after the last game against Germany)
2. ↑ Before the 2015 World Cup

Games at the World Cup

Moncton Montreal Ottawa (AF) Vancouver (VF) Edmonton (HF / S3)

Venues

When the groups were drawn, England was not seeded and was drawn to group F with France, which it meets in the first group game in Moncton , which was founded by French settlers . Colombia and Mexico were drawn as further opponents. There were previously 18 games against France, of which only the first two were won. Seven ended in a draw, including one with a loss on penalties in the quarter-finals of the last World Cup, and nine were lost. There were previously two games against Mexico, the first of which was won 5-0 and the last ended 1-1 in the group stage of the last World Cup. England could face Mexico again at the Cyprus Cup 2015 . England had never played against Colombia.

In the first game against France, the English could not end the 40-year lean period against the French and lost 1-0. Against Mexico they found their way back on track with a 2-1 win and since France surprisingly lost 2-0 to Colombia in the parallel game, everything was still open before the last group match day. England then won 2-1 against Colombia, which was already qualified for the round of 16 regardless of the outcome of the game, with Fara Williams being the first Englishwoman to score a goal in the third participation after each goal in the two previous appearances . Since France defeated Mexico 5-0 at the same time, which meant they were level on points with England but had the better goal difference, England came second in the group.

England will now meet on June 22, 2015 Ottawa on Norway , the Second Group B against the Scandinavians, there have been 16 games. England won only three, two ended in a draw, but 11 were lost. However, the record of the last four games since 2005 with three wins and one draw is very promising.

With their first win in a knockout game at a World Cup, England moved into the quarter-finals against hosts Canada . Both met eleven times before, including one in the first World Cup game of both teams and six times in the Cyprus Cup , both of which are joint record winners. With six wins for England - four of them in the last five games - and five defeats, most recently in preparation for the World Cup, the result was slightly positive for the English women. In the only quarter-final game in which goals were scored in the first half, the English were able to improve their record against Canada and benefited on the one hand from a defensive error by the Canadians and the unfavorable choice of place for the Canadian goalkeeper, which partially blinded her from the sun. The English women could also cope with the fact that shortly after the half-time break, goalkeeper Bardsley had to be replaced because a foreign body had caught her eye. With that, England survived the quarter-finals for the first time.

In the semifinals, defending champions Japan waited , who cleared Australia out of the way and who had lost a World Cup game against England for the last time. Against the Japanese, the "Three Lionesses" had a slightly positive record: in addition to the 2-0 in the preliminary round of the last World Cup, there was also a 2: 2 in the preliminary round of the penultimate World Cup and a 1: 1 in a friendly game that took place in 2013 in England took place but lost in Canada to an own goal by Laura Bassett in added time with 1: 2. In the game for third place, England will meet Germany , which they have never won against. In 20 games previously there were only two draws, but 18 defeats, most recently in November 2014 at London's Wembley Stadium with 0: 3. Against a German team that missed a large number of chances, the English women only had their own chances towards the end of regular time, but could not use them. In the following extra time, substitute Lianne Sanderson took out a penalty, which Fara Williams converted to 1-0 and thus the first win against Germany. This was the first time England had been among the top three teams at a World Cup after winning the world championship title by the men in 1966 . With her third penalty, Williams set the record of the Norwegian Tina Svensson , who scored three goals from penalties in the first edition in 1991 and is now the sole English record scorer at World Championships.

Group games

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	France	3	2	0	1	006: 200	+4	06th
2.	England	3	2	0	1	004: 300	+1	06th
3.	Colombia	3	1	1	1	004: 300	+1	04th
4th	Mexico	3	0	1	2	002: 800	−6	01

Tue. June 9, 2015, in Moncton
France	-	England	1: 0 (1: 0)
Sat. June 13, 2015, in Moncton
England	-	Mexico	2: 1 (0: 0)
Wed. June 17, 2015, in Montreal
England	-	Colombia	2: 1 (2: 0)

Knockout round

The English women celebrate third place

Round of 16, Mon., June 22, 2015, in Ottawa
Norway	-	England	1: 2 (0: 0)
Quarterfinals, Sat. June 27, 2015, in Vancouver
England	-	Canada	2: 1 (2: 1)
Semifinals, Wed July 1, 2015 in Edmonton
Japan	-	England	2: 1 (1: 1)
3rd place play-off on Sat July 4, 2015 in Edmonton
Germany	-	England	0: 1 a.d. (0: 0)

Awards

Karen Bardsley , Lucy Bronze and Steph Houghton have been nominated for the All-Star Team .

Web links

• UEFA.com: Women's World Cup - All qualifying matches

Individual evidence

1. ↑ thefa.com: "England Women 0 - 1 USA Women"
2. ↑ thefa.com: "Australia, Finland and Netherlands in store for Lions"
3. ↑ thefa.com: "England Women's game against France postponed"
4. ↑ thefa.com: "England host China in last home game before Canada"
5. ↑ fifa.com: "Regulations FIFA Women's World Cup Canada 2015 ™"
6. ↑ thefa.com: "England squad named for FIFA Women's World Cup"
7. ↑ Numbers according to the FIFA squad list (published on May 28, 2015)
8. ↑ 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.