Group F of the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup took place from 11 to 20 June 2019.[1] The group consisted of Chile, Sweden, Thailand and the United States.[2] The top two teams, the United States and Sweden, advanced to the round of 16.[3] It was the fifth successive World Cup (and the sixth from seven tournaments played) in which Sweden and the United States were drawn together in the group stage.
| Draw position | Team | Pot | Confederation | Method of qualification | Date of qualification | Finals appearance | Last appearance | Previous best performance | FIFA Rankings | ||||
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| F1 | style=white-space:nowrap | 1 | CONCACAF Women's Championship champions | 14 October 2018 | 8th | data-sort-value="1" | Winners (1991, 1999, 2015) | 1 | 1 | ||||
| F2 | style=white-space:nowrap | 3 | AFC Women's Asian Cup 4th place | 12 April 2018 | 2nd | data-sort-value="17" | Group stage (2015) | 29 | 34 | ||||
| F3 | style=white-space:nowrap | 4 | Copa América Femenina runners-up | 22 April 2018 | 1st | — | data-sort-value="99" | Debut | 38 | 39 | |||
| F4 | style=white-space:nowrap | 2 | UEFA Group 4 winners | 4 September 2018 | 8th | data-sort-value="2" | Runners-up (2003) | 9 | 9 | ||||
In the round of 16:
All times listed are local, CEST (UTC+2).[1]
At 19:30 CEST, in the 72nd minute, the match was interrupted due to severe weather. The match resumed at 20:12 CEST.[4]
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| Player of the Match: Kosovare Asllani (Sweden)
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See main article: United States v Thailand (2019 FIFA Women's World Cup).
The United States opened their defence of their Women's World Cup title with a 13–0 victory against Thailand, setting a new record for the largest margin of victory in the tournament's history, as well as the most goals in a match.[5] Alex Morgan scored five times, tying a tournament and team record set by Michelle Akers for most goals scored by a player in a single World Cup match, while four of her teammates scored their first World Cup goals in their debut at the tournament.[6] [7] The U.S. team were later criticised for celebrating their later goals during the match, with some media commentators and former players calling it disrespectful,[8] but the celebrations were defended by other media commentators, the team's players and members of the opposing Thai bench.[9] [10]
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| Player of the Match: Alex Morgan (United States)
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| Player of the Match: Kosovare Asllani (Sweden)
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The United States fielded a reserve squad with seven changes to the starting lineup to rest its players ahead of the final group stage match against Sweden.[11] Carli Lloyd scored in the 11th minute from the edge of the penalty area and Julie Ertz added a second with a header on a corner kick in the 26th minute. Lloyd scored her second goal of the match in the 35th minute, heading in another corner kick, and missed a penalty kick in the 81st minute that would have given her a hat-trick.[12] Chilean goalkeeper Christiane Endler made several major saves as her team was outshot 26–1, and was named the player of the match for her efforts.[12] With her brace, Carli Lloyd set a new record for most consecutive World Cup appearances with a goal, having scored six matches in a row (starting in the 2015 knockout stage), surpassing the record of German forward Birgit Prinz from 2003.[13]
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| Player of the Match: Christiane Endler (Chile)
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| Player of the Match: Tobin Heath (United States)
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| Player of the Match: María José Urrutia (Chile)
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Fair play points would have been used as tiebreakers in the group if the overall and head-to-head records of teams were tied, or if teams had the same record in the ranking of third-placed teams. These were calculated based on yellow and red cards received in all group matches as follows:[3]
Only one of the above deductions were applied to a player in a single match.
| Team | Match 1 | Match 2 | Match 3 | Points | ||||||||||
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| 1 | 1 | −2 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | −3 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | 3 | −5 | ||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 2 | −5 |