Group A of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup was one of eight groups that formed the opening round of the tournament with the matches played from 20 to 30 July 2023.[1] The group consisted of hosts New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines and Switzerland. The top two teams, Switzerland and Norway, advanced to the round of 16.[2]
New Zealand became the first FIFA Women's World Cup host country to be eliminated in the group stage; it was also the sixth consecutive exit in which New Zealand had failed to advance past the first round. While this was the fifth time Norway finished second in a Women's World Cup group, this was Switzerland's first experience of topping a group in the tournament's history.
Draw position | Team | Pot | Confederation | Method of qualification | Date of qualification | Finals appearance | Last appearance | Previous best performance | FIFA Rankings | ||||
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A1 | style=white-space:nowrap | 1 | data-sort-value="*" | Hosts | 25 June 2020 | 6th | data-sort-value="17" | Group stage (1991, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019) | 22 | 26 | |||
A2 | style=white-space:nowrap | 2 | UEFA Group F winners | 2 September 2022 | 9th | data-sort-value="1" | Winners (1995) | 12 | 12 | ||||
A3 | style=white-space:nowrap | 4 | 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup semi-finalists | 30 January 2022 | 1st | — | data-sort-value="99" | Debut | 53 | 46 | |||
A4 | style=white-space:nowrap | 3 | UEFA play-off best ranked winners | 11 October 2022 | 2nd | data-sort-value="9" | Round of 16 (2015) | 21 | 20 |
In the round of 16:
All times listed are local, NZST (UTC+12).
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Player of the Match: Hannah Wilkinson (New Zealand)[3]
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Player of the Match: Ramona Bachmann (Switzerland)
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This was only the second ever win for a Southeast Asian country (excluding Australia which geographically is not in Southeast Asia) at a senior World Cup (male or female) and the first since Thailand beat Ivory Coast in the 2015 Women's World Cup.
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Player of the Match: Olivia McDaniel (Philippines)
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Player of the Match: Gaëlle Thalmann (Switzerland)
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Player of the Match: Ana Maria Crnogorčević (Switzerland)
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Player of the Match: Sophie Román Haug (Norway)
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Fair play points would have been used as tiebreakers in the group had the overall and head-to-head records of teams were tied. These were calculated based on yellow and red cards received in all group matches as follows:[2]
Only one of the above deductions was applied to a player in a single match.
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1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | –7 |