Four African teams are heading to Australia and New Zealand for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. But progressing beyond the group stage remains a challenge FIFAWWC
There will be four African countries in the 32-team field, up from three in the last two editions. But Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia are not expected to make anything like the impact that Morocco did at the men’s tournament in Qatar last year, when they became the first African side to reach the semi-finals.
Of the 16 previous African campaigns at the Women’s World Cup, only four have got past the group phase – Nigeria in 1999 and 2019 and Cameroon in 2015 and 2019. "There remains a significant gap that will still take a generation or two to properly catch up," says Danny Jordaan, president of the South African Football Association, who hopes to further close that chasm by winning a bid to host the World Cup in four years’ time.
Nigeria, by contrast, keep up their record of having been to all the finals, this being their ninth in a row.
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