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A soccer ball sits throughout a FIFA Ladies’s World Cup send-off soccer match in San Jose, Calif., Sunday, July 9, 2023. Josie Lepe, Related Press
The 2023 FIFA Ladies’s World Cup begins Thursday. Groups from 32 international locations will journey to Australia and New Zealand for the worldwide event that runs by Aug. 20.
Host nations Australia and New Zealand will play the primary video games of the event Thursday. Australia’s opening match in opposition to the Republic of Eire within the 80,000-seat Stadium Australia has already offered out, Forbes reported. The match was initially scheduled to be performed within the smaller 42,500-seat Sydney Soccer Stadium however was moved as a result of ticket demand.
The U.S. girls’s nationwide group will look to defend its title and turn into the primary group — males’s or girls’s — to turn into three-time consecutive champions. The group will play its first match July 21 in opposition to Vietnam at 7 p.m. MDT.
Right here’s your World Cup watching information:
watch the World Cup
Fox Sports activities will broadcast the matches dwell throughout the Fox and FS1 channels. The matches can be streamed on FoxSports.com and the Fox Sports activities App.
For these with out cable, the matches will be watched on Fubo TV and Sling TV.
The place will the World Cup be performed?
Matches can be performed in 10 stadiums within the Australian cities of Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, in addition to New Zealand cities Dunedin, Auckland, Hamilton and Wellington.
That is the primary time Australia or New Zealand have hosted the World Cup, in keeping with FIFA. That is additionally the primary time two nations have co-hosted the event, making approach for the U.S., Canada and Mexico to co-host in 2026.
The U.S. will play all of its group stage matches in New Zealand.
When is the World Cup?
The matches performed in Australia can be 14 to 16 hours forward of MDT, and the matches in New Zealand can be performed 18 hours forward, leading to some late night time and early morning matches.
The primary match of the World Cup will happen at 1 a.m. MDT on July 20 when New Zealand hosts Norway in Auckland, New Zealand.
The ultimate can be held in Sydney, Australia, on Aug. 20 and is scheduled for 4 a.m. MDT.
When is the U.S. enjoying within the World Cup?
The U.S. is in Group E with Vietnam, the Netherlands and Portugal. The group must end first or second within the group to advance to first knockout spherical.
Workforce USA’s group stage schedule is as follows:
- July 21: U.S. vs. Vietnam at 7 p.m. MDT.
- July 26: U.S. vs. Netherlands at 7 p.m. MDT.
- August 1: U.S. vs. Portugal at 1 a.m. MDT.
The U.S. beat the Netherlands within the 2019 World Cup closing, and this would be the first time that the 2 finalists of the final World Cup will play one another within the group stage, in keeping with U.S. Soccer. The People additionally beat the Dutch on penalty kicks within the quarterfinals of the 2021 Olympics.
This would be the first time the U.S. has ever confronted Vietnam. The U.S. is undefeated within the 10 matches it’s performed in opposition to Portugal, and this would be the first time the 2 groups have performed one another since 2021, in keeping with U.S. Soccer.
A full schedule of all of the matches will be discovered on FIFA’s web site.
A soccer ball sits throughout a FIFA Ladies’s World Cup send-off soccer match in San Jose, Calif., Sunday, July 9, 2023.
Josie Lepe, Related Press