FIFA Women's World Cup 2007
| 2007年女子世界杯足球赛 | |
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Official logo
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| Tournament details | |
| Host country | China |
| Dates | 10 – 30 September (21 days) |
| Teams | 16 |
| Venue(s) | 5 |
| Final positions | |
| Champions |
 Germany (2nd title)
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| Runners-up |
 Brazil
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| Third place |
 United States
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| Fourth place |
 Norway
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| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 32 |
| Goals scored | 111 (3.47 per match) |
| Attendance | 1,156,955 (36,155 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |
Marta (7 goals) |
| Best player |
Marta
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| Best goalkeeper |
Nadine Angerer
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The FIFA Women's World Cup 2007, the fifth edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, was an international association football competition for women held in China from September 10, 2007 – September 30, 2007. Originally, China was to host the 2003 Women's World Cup, but the outbreak of SARS in that country forced that event to be moved to the United States. FIFA immediately granted the 2007 event to China, which means that no new host nation was chosen competitively until the voting was held for the 2011 Women's World Cup.
The tournament opened with a record-breaking match in Shanghai, as Germany beat Argentina 11–0 to register the biggest win and the highest scoring match in Women's World Cup history. The tournament ended with Germany defeating Brazil 2–0 in the final, having never surrendered a goal in the entire tournament. The Germans became the first national team in FIFA Women's World Cup history to obtain two consecutive titles.
The venues selected to host the competition are:
Numerous TV stations across the world provide coverage of the tournament. One notable example is the Chinese-language channel CCTV-5 which is available as a free internet feed through TVUnetworks.
For the first time in FIFA Women's World Cup history, all teams received monetary bonuses according to the round they reached (all in USD):
UEFA used the FIFA Women's World Cup as its qualifying tournament for the 2008 Olympic women's tournament. The best three performing UEFA teams will qualify for the Olympics. Originally it was thought that, should England make the top three European teams, they would compete under the United Kingdom banner. However, on 6 September 2007, FIFA issued a press release indicating that England are ineligible to participate in the 2008 Olympics as England does not have its own Olympic Committee. For the determination of the ranking only first through fourth place, quarterfinal elimination or group phase elimination count. If there is a need to make a distinction between teams eliminated in the quarterfinal or between teams eliminated in the group phase these teams will meet in a play-off match. In no case will the points or goals (difference) count for teams eliminated before the semi-final.
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