Tournament details | |
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Dates | 3 April 2017 – December 2018 |
Teams | Maximum 179 (from 6 confederations) |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 62 |
Goals scored | 290 (4.68 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Maysa Jbarah (13 goals) |
The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification process will decide 23 of the 24 teams which will play in the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, with the hosts France qualifying automatically.
The following teams qualified for the final tournament.
The slot allocation was approved by the FIFA Council on 13–14 October 2016. The slots for each confederation are unchanged from that of the previous tournament except the slot for the hosts is moved from CONCACAF (Canada) to UEFA (France).
Qualifying matches started in April 2017, and are expected to take place until late 2018.
Besides the host France, all 210 remaining FIFA member associations are eligible to enter the qualifying process. However, as Equatorial Guinea have been banned from the 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations, they are also in effect banned from qualifying for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.
As in the previous World Cup cycle, the AFC Women's Asian Cup will serve as the World Cup qualifying tournament for AFC members. The World Cup qualifying process will be as follows:
The eight qualified teams for the final tournament are:
As in the previous World Cup cycle, UEFA will organise a tournament for its members designed only for World Cup qualifying. The World Cup qualifying process will be as follows: