Team Canada has qualified for the 2023 Women’s World Cup of Soccer according to the Canadian Press on Friday. The tournament will take place in Australia and New Zealand from July 20 to August 20, 2023. It will be the first time that two separate nations are hosting the Women’s World Cup of Soccer.
Canada qualified through the 2022 CONCACAF Women’s Soccer Championship in Guadalupe, Mexico on Friday by beating Panama 1-0. Canadian Olympic gold medalist Julia Grosso of Vancouver, British Columbia scored the lone Canadian goal in the 64th minute. Grosso generated fame when she scored the game-winning goal on penalty kicks in the gold medal game in women’s soccer at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021. Canada beat Sweden 3-2 on penalty kicks.
This was Canada’s second win in the tournament. On Tuesday. they defeated Trinidad and Tobago 6-0. The Canadian goal scorers were Grosso, who had two goals, Christine Sinclair of Burnaby, British Columbia, Jessie Fleming of London, Ontario, Jordyn Huitema of Chilliwack, British Columbia, and Janine Beckie. Sinclair, Fleming, Huitema, and Beckie also won a gold medal for Canada at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2021.
Canada is one of three teams from the eight-team tournament in Mexico that have qualified for the 2023 Women’s World Cup. They are joined so far by the United States and Costa Rica, with one more team still to be decided. Other countries that have qualified for the 2023 Women’s World Cup so far are Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Philippines, Vietnam, Sweden, Spain, France and Denmark.
The Women’s World Cup of Soccer will have 32 teams for the first time ever. That is up from 24 teams in 2019.
