China at the FIFA Women's World Cup
The China women's national football team has represented China at the FIFA Women's World Cup on seven occasions in 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2015 and 2019. They were runners-up once.[1]
1991 World Cup
Since the FIFA Women's World Cup took place in the People's Republic of China, the Chinese did not have to qualify. Nevertheless, the team participated in the 1991 AFC Women's Championship, which served as qualification for the other Asian teams. The PRC won the championship with five wins and would therefore have been athletically qualified.
At the final round, the teams from Norway, Denmark and New Zealand were allocated to PRC. On 16 November 1991, the PRC and Norway competed in Guangzhou for the first official women's World Cup match. It Ma Li scored the first goal in the 22nd minute. In the second half, the Chinese then scored three more goals and won 4-0. In the second game against Denmark they had to settle for 1: 2 deficit with a 2: 2, but were able to win the last game against New Zealand with 4: 1 and were group winners. In the quarter-finals they met Sweden. Already in the 3rd minute Pia Sundhage managed the 1: 0 for the Scandinavians, where it remained until the end. The Chinese were eliminated.
1995 World Cup
Four years later, the Chinese actually had to qualify. As Qualification Asian Games 1994 served in Hiroshima. In a group of four, Japan, Republic of China, PRC and South Korea met. After a 1-1 draw against Japan, both won against the other two teams and then met again in the final, the Chinese won 2-0. Both finalists went to the World Cup, which took place for the first time on European soil.
At the World Championships in Sweden they were defending champions United States , Australia and again Denmark. With a 3: 3 against the USA after 0: 2 and 1: 3-residue, they started the group matches. Against Australia followed a 4: 2 and against Denmark a 3: 1. On points equal to the USA, they were then group second due to the worse goal difference. In the quarter-finals they met the hosts and thus, as four years earlier, Sweden. The Chinese went in the 29th Minute with 1: 0 in the lead and it remained until the 90th Minute. In the third minute of added time, Ulrika Kalte still managed to equalize for the Swedes. Since no team could score a goal in the subsequent extra time, there was the first penalty shootout at a women's World Cup. Here the Chinese had the slightly better goal scorers and came through a 4: 3 for the first time in the semi-finals. The Chinese then lost but in the semifinals against Germany by one of Bettina Wiegmann scored in the 88th minute with 0: 1 and also the small final against the USA with 0: 2. With the fourth place, however, the Chinese had qualified for the first women's football tournament at the Olympic Games 1996, in which only the eight best teams of the World Cup could participate.
1999 World Cup
For the third World Cup, the Chinese qualified as the winner of the 1997 AFC Women's Championship. After three rounds victories against North Korea, Uzbekistan and the Philippines was then won in the semifinals with 10: 0 against the Republic of China and booked the World Cup ticket. In the final then North Korea was defeated again, but had also qualified by the finals.
In the USA they won the opening game against the Swedes 2-1, with a 7-0 win against World Cup newcomer Ghana, where Sun Wen scored three goals and a 3-1 victory against Oceania champion Australia, the group was won. In the quarter-finals they met Russia's neighbors and won 2-0. In the semifinals, followed by a 5-0 win over defending champion Norway, which succeeded the highest victory against a defending champion at a World Cup. In the final in front of the record crowd of 90,185 spectators, they then met the host USA. No women's football match recognized by FIFA saw more viewers. After scoreless 120 minutes had to decide for the first time at a World Cup women's penalty shootout.[2] While all five US girls could transform, Liu Ying failed to Briana Scurry. With the runner-up, however, the Chinese won the best placement to date.[3] After that could not be linked to the achievements of 1999. Sun Wen and the Brazilian Sissi became top scorers with seven goals each. Sun Wen was also awarded the Golden Ball for Best Player of the Tournament. In addition, the PRC received the fair play award.
2003 World Cup
Actually, the 2003 World Cup should take place again in the PRC. Due to the SARS epidemic, the tournament was temporarily relocated to the United States. Thus the World Cup took place for the second time in the USA. The Chinese women therefore had to re-qualify qualifier, which was again the Asia Cup. In the group stage, the Chinese defeated their neighbors Vietnam national soccer team (6: 0) and India (12: 0) and Uzbekistan (11: 0) with three wins ), which already the World Cup qualification was perfect. In the semi-final, a 3-1 draw against South Korea, the final was then lost 2-1 by Golden Goal against North Korea.
In the USA, they met in the first group match Ghana and won 1-0. Against Australia then followed a 1-1. With a 1-0 win against Russia, which was already qualified for the quarter-finals, the group was then but finished as the winner and also reached the quarter-finals. Here was Canada the opponent and after a 0: 1 was the World Cup for the Chinese women finished.
2007 Women's Cup
Four years later, the World Cup took place for the second time in the People's Republic of China, with which the Chinese did not have to qualify. Nevertheless, they participated in the Asian Championship 2006 which served as the Qualification for the other teams of the AFC. The PRC was able to win the title for the eighth and to the last time after two consecutive successes in North Korea, setting a record for official continental championships set by Germany.
For the first time, the Chinese team started with a foreign coach, the Swede Marika Domanski Lyfors, who had already coached Sweden at the World Cup in 1999 and 2003. At the finals, the PRC was set next to defending champion Germany, world champion USA and Norway. The New Zealand, Brazil and Denmark have been awarded twice before. Against the Danes they then played the opening game. After a 2-0 lead, they still had to accept the 2-2 equalizer, but could win by the third goal one minute after the equalizer ultimately 3-2.[4] In the game against Brazil was then lost with 0: 4, the highest defeat of a host of a women's World Cup.[5] With a 2: 0 against New Zealand but still reached the quarter-finals as group second.[6] Here, however, was after a 0-1 against Norway final and for eight years, the Chinese said goodbye to the World Cup stage.[7]
2011 World Cup
For the World Cup in Germany, the People's Republic of China could not for the first time qualify. At the 2010 Asian Cup held in the PRC, the Chinese could not take home advantage and came in fourth. Although two wins against Vietnam (5-0) and Australia (1-0) were achieved after a goalless start against South Korea, which qualified for the semi-final succeeded, but this was lost to North Korea 0-1. As the match for place 3 with 0: 2 against Japan was lost, was the first time a women's World Cup without the PRC instead. Instead, the Chinese women had to watch from the distance as Japan became the first Asian team to win the World Cup.
2015 World Cup
In the Qualification for the World Cup in Canada, for which the Asian women have now been given five starting positions after the increase in the number of participants, the Chinese took part in the 2014 Asia Cup third. After a 7-0 draw against Thailand at the start of the group stage, a 3-0 win over Myanmar international football team led to a 0-0 draw with South Korea as the runners-up Reach the semi-finals and thus the World Cup in Canada. The semi-final was lost but against world champions Japan with 1: 2. In the match for third place succeeded then a 2: 1 against South Korea. In addition to the new Asian champion and the Chinese Australia qualified second, South Korea in fourth and Thailand for the fifth time.
In the draw of the groups, the Chinese PR China was not set and was assigned to Group A with host Canada, against whom the opening match was played. Other group opponents were New Zealand and World Cup freshman Netherlands. The Chinese arrived with the longest series of games without a win and also lost the Opening Match to Canada 1-0, but only by a goal by penalty in injury time. In the second group match against the Netherlands, the series was stopped, with the 1-0 win only in the Injury time fell. By a 2-2 in the last group match against New Zealand, they reached the second round as second in the group. In the round of 16, they defeated the surprise team Cameroon, which participated for the first time and was best of the eight newcomers, 1-0. In the following quarterfinals, it came to the final reeve of 1999 against the United States. From the then final squad in 2015 was only the now oldest World Cup player Christie Rampone in the US squad, but in both games was not used. The Americans dominated the game, but missed a lot of chances while the Chinese women scored only once on goal of the US girls throughout the game. As in 1999, the game went without goals in the second half, but six minutes after the restart, Carli Lloyd scored the goal for a 1-0 victory. The Chinese were eliminated for the fourth time in the quarterfinals. With the quarterfinals also ended the term of coach Hao Wei. In September, the former French coach Bruno Bini was hired as successor.
2019 World Cup
In the Qualification for the World Cup in France, for which the Asian women were again given five starting positions, the PRC qualified by reaching the semi-finals of the Asian Championship 2018 as first team athletic for the World Cup finals. For this championship, which took place in April 2018 in Jordan, the Chinese were automatically qualified. With three wins against Thailand, the Philippines and hosts Jordan, both the Asian Cup semi-finals and the World Cup finals have been reached. In the semifinals, the Chinese then failed to Japan, could win the game for third place but against Thailand.
At the World Cup in France, the PRC met in the group stage on Germany, Spain and World Cup newcomer South Africa. The Chinese were especially noticeable against Germany due to their hard style of play. The German playmaker Dzsenifer Marozsán suffered a toe break and dropped out for the rest of the group matches. Although the Chinese were under constant pressure, but after mistakes of the German defense in the first half, the better scoring opportunities, but were not used. Giulia Gwinn then scored the only goal of the game in the second half. The Chinese team won 1-0 against South Africa with a goal from Li Ying. Even before the game against Spain was clear that both teams due to the results of Group E and F, in a draw would reach the first knockout round. So both went no high risk and reached after scoreless 90 minutes the knockout stages. In the round of 16, the Chinese then hit Italy as one of the four best group stages and lost 0: 2.[8]
FIFA World Cup record
| FIFA Women's World Cup record | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Result | GP | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | ||
 1991 |
Quarter-finals | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | +6 | ||
 1995 |
Fourth place | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 10 | +1 | ||
 1999 |
Runners-up | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 2 | +17 | ||
| 2003 |
Quarter-finals | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | ||
| 2007 |
4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | −2 | |||
 2011 |
Did not qualify | |||||||||
 2015 |
Quarter-finals | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | ||
 2019 |
Round of 16 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | −2 | ||
| Total | 7/8 | 33 | 16 | 7 | 10 | 53 | 32 | +21 | ||
Goalscorers
| Player | Goals | 1991 | 1995 | 1999 | 2003 | 2007 | 2015 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun Wen | 11 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 | |||
| Liu Ailing | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Jin Yan | 3 | 3 | ||||||
| Shi Guihong | 3 | 3 | ||||||
| Wei Haiying | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Bai Jie | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Li Jie | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Sun Qingmei | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Wang Lisi | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Wang Shanshan | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Zhang Ouying | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Zhou Yang | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Bi Yan | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Fan Yunjie | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Liu Ying | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Ma Li | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Pu Wei | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Song Xiaoli | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Wang Liping | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Wu Weiying | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Li Ying | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Xie Caixia | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Zhao Lihong | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Total | 53 | 10 | 11 | 19 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
References
- ^ Faison, Seth (12 July 1999). "The View From China: 'So Close, So Close'". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
- ^ "BBC News | Football | US lifts World Cup". News.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "Reflections from a Chinese American home during the 1999 Women's World Cup final". Espn.com. June 18, 2019.
- ^ "China women triumph over Denmark". September 12, 2007 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "Superb Brazil women shock China". September 15, 2007 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "Hosts China reach quarter-finals". September 20, 2007 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "Norway women end China challenge". September 23, 2007 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ "Women's World Cup 2019: Italy beat China 2-0 to seal quarter-final place". Bbc.co.uk. June 25, 2019.
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