Womens Soccer World Cup

The FIFA Women's World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the senior Womens Soccer national teams of the members of F�d�ration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1991. The current holders are Japan, who won the 2011 tournament in a penalty shootout.

The current format of the tournament involves 16 teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over a period of about three weeks;� this phase is often called the World Cup Finals. A qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, is used to determine which teams qualify for the tournament together with the host nation(s).

The FIFA Women's World Cup Soccer is recognized as the most important International competition in women's football and is played amongst women's national football teams of the member states of FIFA, the sport's global governing body. The first Women's World Cup tournament, named the Women's World Championship, was held in 1991, sixty-one years after the men's first FIFA World Cup tournament in 1930. The six World Cup tournaments have been won by four different national teams. Visit other post Alex Morgan and Space Shuttle Launch. The next World Cup will be hosted by Canada in 2015.


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