The Fifa Girls’s World Cup takes place from July 20 to August 20 in Australia and New Zealand.
AFP Sport visits the ten stadiums which can host matches:
AUSTRALIA
Stadium Australia, Sydney (83,000 capability)
(FILES) A basic view reveals Stadium Australia, often known as Accor Stadium, which can host matches throughout the 2023 Girls’s World Cup soccer match at Homebush Bay in western Sydney on Might 16, 2023. (Picture by DAVID GRAY / AFP)
The match’s important venue — often known as the Olympic Stadium after being constructed because the centerpiece of the 2000 Sydney Video games — will host the opening-day match between Australia and Eire on July 20 and the ultimate a month later.
Positioned within the metropolis’s west, it’s the dwelling floor for Nationwide Rugby League golf equipment Canterbury Bulldogs and South Sydney Rabbitohs, and has hosted numerous main sporting occasions because it opened in 1999.
Sydney Soccer Stadium (42,500)
This brand-new facility at Moore Park was accomplished final yr to switch the ageing Allianz Stadium on the identical web site, which has hosted a sports activities floor since 1903.
Subsequent to the well-known Sydney Cricket Floor, it’s recurrently used for soccer, rugby league, rugby union and as a live performance enviornment. Six video games might be performed right here.
Melbourne Rectangular Stadium (25,000)
(FILES) A basic view reveals AAMI Park, often known as Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, which can host matches throughout the 2023 Girls’s World Cup soccer match in Melbourne on Might 15, 2023. (Picture by Martin KEEP / AFP)
Also called AAMI Park, the venue is in a precinct that additionally consists of the Melbourne Cricket Floor and Melbourne Park, venue of the Australian Open tennis.
Inside strolling distance of the town centre, it is going to host six matches together with Australia’s heavyweight Group B finale with Canada.
Brisbane Stadium (52,500)
At the moment often called Suncorp Stadium and previously Lang Park, it’s Brisbane’s main sporting and leisure hub.
Nicknamed “The Cauldron”, it is going to host eight video games together with a quarter-final and the third-place play-off, with European champions England kicking off their marketing campaign right here in opposition to Haiti.
Perth Rectangular Stadium (20,000)
A stone’s throw from the Swan River, this state-of-the-art stadium was oval-shaped however is now the town’s solely rectangular venue and residential to A-League membership Perth Glory.
The Group D battle between Denmark and Asian champions China kicks off the motion on July 22 with 4 different video games to comply with.
Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide (15,000)
The house of soccer in South Australia since 1960, the bottom has undergone main surgical procedure to convey it as much as scratch for the match, together with a brand new roof on the japanese stand.
It has hosted numerous A-League video games and was a key venue for the 2000 Sydney Olympics soccer match. 5 matches might be performed right here throughout 4 teams, and one round-of-16 conflict.
NEW ZEALAND
Eden Park, Auckland (50,000)
(FILES) A basic view reveals the outside of Eden Park, which can host matches throughout the 2023 Girls’s World Cup soccer match, in Auckland on June 9, 2018. (Picture by MICHAEL BRADLEY / AFP)
New Zealand’s nationwide stadium has been dwelling to cricket and rugby for greater than 100 years and witnessed many memorable moments, together with the 1987 and 2011 Rugby World Cup finals.
The match’s opening match between New Zealand and Norway might be right here. The hallowed floor will host 9 video games in complete, together with a semi-final.
Wellington Stadium (34,500)
On the banks of New Zealand’s Wellington Harbour and often known as Sky Stadium, it was opened in 2000 and is the house of Tremendous Rugby membership Wellington Hurricanes.
It should host 9 video games together with a quarter-final, plus a blockbuster group conflict between america and the Netherlands in a re-run of the 2019 remaining, which the Individuals received 2-0.
Dunedin Stadium (30,000)
Bordering New Zealand’s beautiful Otago Harbour, it’s acknowledged because the world’s first totally enclosed pure turf stadium.
Opened in 2011 and often known as Forsyth Barr Stadium, it’s dwelling to Tremendous Rugby aspect Otago Highlanders and can host six video games, beginning with the Philippines in opposition to Switzerland on July 21.
Waikato Stadium, Hamilton (25,000)
The religious dwelling of rugby within the New Zealand North Island metropolis of Hamilton, it hosted two of the inter-confederation play-offs in February.
A brief stroll from the town centre, the bottom will stage 5 video games, beginning with the Group C assembly between Zambia and 2011 champions Japan on July 22.
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