FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP 2011
The FIFA Women's World Cup 2011
will be the sixth instance of the FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial
international women's football world championship tournament. It has been scheduled
to take place between 26 June and 17 July 2011, and it will be held in Germany
which won the right to host the event in October 2007.
Sixteen teams will compete at the
World Cup finals.Two-time defending world champions Germany will be automatically
qualified as the host nation. Other national teams will start qualification in
their continental confederations in 2009 and 2010 respectively
Venues
After the German Football
Association (DFB) expressed its intention to bid for the Women's World Cup, 23
German cities applied to host World Cup games. Twelve cities were chosen for
the official bidding dossier handed over to FIFA in August 2007. On 30
September 2008, the DFB executive committee decided to use nine stadiums for
the tournament. The World Cup venues are Berlin, Augsburg, Bochum, Dresden,
Frankfurt, Leverkusen, Monchengladbach, Sinsheim and Wolfsburg.
The opening game will be held at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, the venue
of the 2006 men's World Cup Final; it will be the only match played in Berlin.
The final of the tournament will take place at the Commerzbank-Arena in
Frankfurt, the venue of the 2005 men's Confederations Cup final. According to
DFB general secretary Wolfgang Niersbach, the Women's World Cup should begin at
the stadium where the men's World Cup ended in 2006. The final match schedule
will be issued by FIFA by the end of 2008. Each host city is expected to be
allocated a maximum of four matches.
Million tickets
German chancellor Angela Merkel joined organising committee president
Steffi Jones and DFB president Theo Zwanziger in the Berlin chancellory for the
unveiling of the venues for the finals from 26 June until 17 July 2011. Having
staged the 2006 FIFA World Cup final, the 75,000-capacity Olympiastadion will
open the female version with games to follow in Augsburg, Bochum, Dresden,
Frankfurt, Leverkusen, Monchengladbach, Sinsheim and Wolfsburg. In all around
one million match tickets will be put on sale for the 32 matches
Below is a map of Germany and the
host cities.
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