The draw has been made for the Fifa Women’s Under 20 World Cup to be held in Costa Rica with very intriguing groups.
In Group A host Costa Rica will face Australia who qualified after North Korea withdrew from the tournament. Current 2018 Fifa Women’s Under 17 Champions Spain and Conmebol champion Brasil complete the group. Spain where semi finalists in the 2019 uefa women’s under 19 championships losing to France 3-1 aet. Brasil Qualify as current Conmebol Women’s under 20 champions recently contested in Chile.
Group B consist of Germany, Colombia, New Zealand and Mexico.
Germany qualified based on the last played Uefa tournament, Colombia where runners up in the recently played Conmebol Women’s under 20 championship, New Zealand where OFCs choice as its tournament was cancelled and Mexico where recent runners up in the Concacaf Women’s Under 20 Championship.
Group C paired France, Nigeria, Canada and South Korea. While Group D saw Japan Netherlands Ghana and USA grouped together.
France as other European countries in the tournament where chosen based on the last played Uefa women’s under 19 championships in 2019. France won the tournament defeating Germany 2-1 in the final. Nigeria qualified defeating Senegal in the final qualifying round. South Korea finished third in the AFC Women’s Under 19 championships in 2019 defeating fourth placed Australia 9-1.
Japan where the AFC Women’s Under 19 championship winners in 2019 defeating North Korea in the final 2-1, they also beat Australia 7-0 in the semi final. Netherlands were semi finalists in the Uefa Women’s Under 19 tournament in 2019 losing to Germany 3-1. Ghana ensured their qualification defeating Ethiopia 5-1 on aggregate and the USA enter the tournament as defending Concacaf Women’s Under 20 champions defeating Mexico 2-0 in the final played on March 12.
The tournament will commence on August 10th with the final on August 28th.
Lady Doves trounced She Corporate 5-0 with Fazila Ikwaput scoring a hattrick as co leaders Kampala produced a second half comeback to force a 2-2 draw in a exciting encounter with the UCU Lady Cardinals. The tie moves Kampala to the top of the table on goal difference
Doris Boaduwaa’s brace eased the South Champions Hasaacas to a 3-0 victory at the Berry Ladies.
Wolfsburg dominated proceedings at Essen as they fired home 5 goals to move within a victory of regaining the Frauen Bundesliga title
Six second half goals relegated Birmingham City from the FAWSL, Georgia Stanway’s strike in the 57th minute opened the floodgates as Birmingham collapsed to a 0-6 defeat. The victory moves Manchester City into pole position to obtain the final UWCL spot for the 2022-23 season requiring a point in the final game as they ran up the goal difference. Arsenal ensured the title will go to the final game as they defeated North London rivals 3-0 at the Emirates. Beth Meads early goal eased the tension and Caitlin Foord struck a second half double.
Puerto Rico stuns previously unbeaten El Salvador with a exceptional performance to advance to the semi final.
Mexico crushed Dominica Republic 10-0 while USA 🇺🇸 eased to a 4-0 victory over Jamaica.
Canada proved too strong for Costa Rica as three second half goals settled the match.
The Final 4 is set Mexico v Puerto Rico Canada v USA
Two losers play off for Concacaf’s third spot at the Fifa Women’s Under 17 World Cup in India.
Washington Spirit outlasted OL Reign in a dramatic penalty shoot out after a goalless 90 minutes to earn their place in Saturdays NWSL Challenge Cup Final. Debinha and Ordonez scored first half goals for North Carolina as they defeated Kansas City 2-1 in the second semi final, a late goal by Hamilton give the host hope but the Courage held out to ensure they will host the final.
Portugal replace Rússia at the Uefa Women’s Championships in England
Uefa updated their status on the partition of Russia in upcoming and ongoing competitions. Rússia has been replaced in the Women’s European championships by Portugal and eliminated from World Cup Qualifying. Their bid for future competitions was also declared invalid
All the decisions
Russia will not participate in group C of the UEFA Women’s EURO 2022 final tournament scheduled between 6 and 31 July in England and will be replaced by Portugal, the opponent Russia defeated in the play-offs.
European Qualification to the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023
Russia did not play their two matches scheduled in April in Group E (comprising Denmark, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Malta and Azerbaijan) due to their suspension. Russia will not participate in any of the subsequent matches in this competition and all their results until now are considered as null and void. Consequently, Group E will continue as a group of five teams.
The decision means Denmark has qualified for the Fifa Women’s World Cup while Bosnia move into second place in the group and play off position.
2022/23 UEFA club competitions
UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Europa Conference League, UEFA Women’s Champions League and UEFA Youth League
Russia will have no affiliated clubs participating in UEFA club competitions in the 2022/23 season. Consequently, the respective access lists of the men’s and women’s club competitions have been rebalanced in accordance with the principles set out in the relevant competition regulations. Furthermore, Russia will be assigned a number of coefficient points equivalent to the lowest number they have earned in any of the last five seasons, i.e. 4.333 points for the men’s association club coefficient and 1.750 for the women’s association club coefficient for the purpose of points calculation for the 2022/23 season.
UEFA Women’s Championships League access list updated
Europe Albania: RTSH Andorra: TVE Armenia: Public TV Armenia Austria: ORF Azerbaijan: Public TV Azerbaijan Belarus: Belarus TV Belgium: RTBF, VRT Bosnia and Herzegovina: Sportklub Bulgaria: BNT Croatia: Sportklub Cyprus: CyBC Czech Republic: CT Denmark: DKDR Sport Estonia: ERR Faroe Islands: DKDR Sport Finland: YLE Georgia: GPB Greece: ERT Hungary: MTMTVAVA Iceland: RUV Israel: Charlton, KAN Italy: RAI Kazakhstan: KZTV Kosovo: RTK Latvia: LT Liechtenstein: SRG SSR Lithuania: LRT Luxembourg: RTBF Malta: PPBSBS Moldova: TVR Montenegro: Sportklub Netherlands: NOS North Macedonia: Sportklub Norway: NRK, TV2-N Poland: TVP Portugal: RTP Republic of Ireland: RTE Romania: TVR Russia: Match TV San Marino: RAI Serbia: Sportklub Slovakia: RTV Slovenia: Sportklub Spain: TVE Sweden: SVT Switzerland: SRG SSR Turkey: TRT Ukraine: Suspilne United Kingdom: BBC Vatican City: RAI
Outside Europe Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Falkland Islands, French Guyana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Nevis, Saba, St Barts, St Christopher, St Eustatius, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, St Martin, St Pierre & Miquelon, St Vincent & the Grenadines, Surinam, Tortola, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos Islands: ESPN
KFF EP COM produced a courageous performance to hold off KFF Mitrovica in a 0-0 draw that clinched the championship title and a place in the UWCL 2022-23
KFF EP COM celebrate the title Spartak receive the championship trophy in Serbia ending the league campaign defeating Masinac Trace 7-0
The second legs of the CAF Women’s Under 17 are under way as Morocco advanced to the final qualifying round defeating Niger 7-0 for a 18-0 aggregate win, where they will likely face Ghana who hold a 3-0 advantage over Guinea .
Result Morocco 🇲🇦 7 Niger 🇳🇪 0 Hiba Karimi 7 Douae Azizi 17 Doha El Madani 24 Kenza Laksiri 45+1 80 Maysane Khelefi 70 El Hannichi 87 ‘ Agg 18-0
San Luis battled to a 3-1 victory over Gallos in the final round of the Clausura. The win moves them into the eighth spot in the Standings and await the results of the remaining of the weekend action to see if they claim a spot in Liguilla. The result ended hopes for Gallos.
Rosengård strode to victory in the opening game of the sixth round of the Damallsvenskan Olivia Schough bagged a brace in the comfortable 4-1 victory over Hammarby
Victory for SKN St Pölten clinched SK Sturm Graz place in next seasons uwcl. Hickelsberger’s winning goal in the 26th minute being decisive in a tight fought contest.
Twente stormed to a 7-0 victory with Fenna Kalma contributing another brace as they clinched their spot in the UWCL 2022-23 and remain three points clear of Ajax who gained a 2-0 away victory at Heerenveen.
Myjava remains on course for the title in Slovakia recording a 5-0 victory over Nové Zámky in what was a catch up game. They move three points clear of Slovan in the classification.
Ochumba Oseke fired home a 84th minute winner as Zambia took the first of two international Friendlies over Botswana 1-0. The second game shall be played on May 2
Anderlecht retained the title in Belgium for a fifth consecutive year defeating nearest challengers OHL 1-0, Stefánia Vatafu scoring the title clinching goal in the 16th minute.
Racing stay 6 points clear in Luxembourg with four games remaining Cameroun’s Marlyse Ngo Ndoumbouk scoring a brace in the 3-0 victory over Itzig it takes her tally to 24 goals on the season.
ETO Gyor won the Hungarian Women’s Cup defeating Haladas Viktoria 1-0 in the final. Fanni Nagy’s winning goal coming in the 59th minute minutes after Kateryna Samson denied Andrea Herczeg from the penalty spot with a low diving save to her right.
Late goals from Ingrid Ryland and Elisabeth Terland gave leaders Brann a 2-0 win at Lyn, while co-leader Vålerenga dominated LSK to gain a 3-0 success, Olaug Tvedten, Elise Thorsnes and a Dejana Stefanovic speciality driving shot provided the goals. Rosenborg remain third recording a 3-0 win at Røa.
Favourites USA and Mexico clinched their groups in the Concacaf Women’s Under 17 Championships. USA defeated Costa Rica 5-0 and will face Curaçao in the second round. Mexico set up a second round tie against Guyana as they romped to a 10-0 victory over Trinidad. Puerto Rico advanced as they beat Grenada 4-0 with Panama clinching second place in Group E defeating Nicaragua 2-0.
ETO Gyor lift the Hungarian Women’s Cup. Teams Qualified so far Anderlecht win the championship in Belgium for a fifth consecutive year
Gisela Robledo’s brace ensured Colombia claimed the final ticket to the Fifa Women’s Under 20 World Cup in Costa Rica. Ilana Izquierdo pounced on a loose ball in the 6th minute to give Colombia the lead. A dominating opening period lead to Gisela Robledo doubling the advantage on 16 minutes before she scored her second with a class finish rounding the Uruguayan keeper and cooly slotting the ball into the net for a 3-0 half time advantage. Uruguay tried in vain to get back into the game as Colombia remained solid for the remainder of the game as the full time whistle sparked jubilant scenes.
Jubilant Colombia photo Conmebol
Brasil and Venezuela played out the final game of the competition in a low key affair with nothing at stake, Yaya’s second minute strike ensured Brasil remained 100% in the tournament.
Results
Teams Qualified for the Fifa Women’s Under 20 World Cup in Costa Rica to be held in August.
Brasil qualified for the Fifa Women’s Under 20 World Cup to be played in Costa Rica commencing August 10, after the results of the second Matchday of the Cuadrangular round. The results also sealed the title for Brasil with a match to spare.
Brasil defeated Uruguay in the first game of the day courtesy of Cris’s left foot strike in the 29th minute, taking them to six points in the group. It was a hard fought contest Uruguay had entered the game without the tournament leading scorer Belen Aquino who suffered a sprained ankle and forced to watch from the sidelines. Uruguay did however come very close to the equaliser when Wendy Carballo pounced on a error by Brasil goalkeeper whose misplaced pass was intercepted, however Carballo’s chip shot from 30 yards struck the top of the crossbar and out of play. Clear opportunities where scarce and Brasil held out for the single goal success.
Colombia got their bid to qualify for the finals in Costa Rica back on track as they defeated Venezuela 3-0 in the second game of the evening. Maria Reyes bursting run to the bye line set up Gisela Robledo to fire home in the 36th minute. Venezuela battled for the equaliser however stout defending by Colombia kept them at bay in the 61st minute a goal mouth scramble was cleared. Slick passing almost lead to a second goal for Colombia in the 73rd minute however great awareness and double save by Venezuela keeper Hilary Azuaje denied Ingrid Guerra. However Guerra was not to be denied five minutes later a screaming left foot shot from the left side of the box flew by the keeper into the top corner of the net to double Colombia’s advantage. Gisela Robledo struck a fantastic solo goal in stoppage time to seal the 3-0 victory. Colombia will face Uruguay on April 24th requiring a draw having better goal difference than Uruguay. The defeat eliminates Venezuela.
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