2024 CONIFA Women's World Football Cup explained

Tourney Name:CONIFA Women's World Football Cup
Year:2024
Size:270px
City:Bodø
Country: (official)
Norway (location)
Dates:4–8 June 2024
Num Teams:3
Venues:2
Count:2
Matches:7
Goals:23
Top Scorer:Karoline Fosli
Eva-Alida Eliasson
(4 goals)
Player:Dilaxsika Sundararajah
Prevseason:2022

The 2024 CONIFA Women's World Football Cup is the second edition of the CONIFA Women's World Football Cup, an international football tournament for states, minorities, stateless peoples and regions unaffiliated with FIFA organised by CONIFA.[1]

Participants

The following teams were initially announced to participate in the tournament;

Withdrawn

After initially being announced as participants, Kashmir and later withdrew from the competition with no official reason given.[2] would also be removed from the tournament on the opening day after the team was unable to secure visa to travel aboard on time.[3] These withdrawals would result in the tournament being reduced from the originally announced 6 participants to 3.

Host

The tournament will be played above the Arctic Circle in northern Norway. The city of Bodø became selected as the European Capital of Culture in 2024 and as a part of the celebration, the city is hosting the CONIFA WWFC2024.

Venues

The group stage will be played at Mørkvedlia idrettspark, 15 minutes outside the city center. The area is closely connected to the Bodø University College.The final will be played in the home ground of FK Bodø/Glimt, the Aspmyra Stadium.[4]

Mørkvedlia idrettsparkAspmyra Stadion
Capacity: 1,500Capacity: 8,270[5]

Group stage

Matches

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Top goalscorers

4 goals

3 goals

2 goals

1 goal

Notes and References

  1. Web site: CONIFA Women World Football Cup 2024 . conifa.org . 6 June 2024.
  2. Web site: CONIFA President looks ahead to second Women's World Cup . 3 June 2024 .
  3. Web site: Tibetan women's football team withdraws from CONIFA 2024 after visa roadblock . phayul.com . 4 June 2024 . 6 June 2024.
  4. Web site: CONIFA Women's World Cup . nord.no . 6 June 2024.
  5. News: Nye tribuner klare til bruk på Aspmyra . nrk.no . NRK . no . 6 April 2022.