The Fifa Ladies’s World Cup takes place from July 20 to August 20 in Australia and New Zealand.
AFP Sport visits the ten stadiums which is able to host matches:
AUSTRALIA
Stadium Australia, Sydney (83,000 capability)
(FILES) A basic view exhibits Stadium Australia, also called Accor Stadium, which is able to host matches through the 2023 Ladies’s World Cup soccer event at Homebush Bay in western Sydney on Could 16, 2023. (Photograph by DAVID GRAY / AFP)
The event’s most important venue — also called the Olympic Stadium after being constructed because the centerpiece of the 2000 Sydney Video games — will host the opening-day match between Australia and Eire on July 20 and the ultimate a month later.
Situated within the metropolis’s west, it’s the residence floor for Nationwide Rugby League golf equipment Canterbury Bulldogs and South Sydney Rabbitohs, and has hosted numerous main sporting occasions because it opened in 1999.
Sydney Soccer Stadium (42,500)
This brand-new facility at Moore Park was accomplished final 12 months to interchange the ageing Allianz Stadium on the identical website, which has hosted a sports activities floor since 1903.
Subsequent to the well-known Sydney Cricket Floor, it’s usually used for soccer, rugby league, rugby union and as a live performance area. Six video games will likely be performed right here.
Melbourne Rectangular Stadium (25,000)
(FILES) A basic view exhibits AAMI Park, also called Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, which is able to host matches through the 2023 Ladies’s World Cup soccer event in Melbourne on Could 15, 2023. (Photograph by Martin KEEP / AFP)
Also referred to as AAMI Park, the venue is in a precinct that additionally contains the Melbourne Cricket Floor and Melbourne Park, venue of the Australian Open tennis.
Inside strolling distance of town centre, it can host six matches together with Australia’s heavyweight Group B finale with Canada.
Brisbane Stadium (52,500)
Presently generally known as Suncorp Stadium and previously Lang Park, it’s Brisbane’s main sporting and leisure hub.
Nicknamed “The Cauldron”, it can host eight video games together with a quarter-final and the third-place play-off, with European champions England kicking off their marketing campaign right here in opposition to Haiti.
Perth Rectangular Stadium (20,000)
A stone’s throw from the Swan River, this state-of-the-art stadium was oval-shaped however is now town’s solely rectangular venue and residential to A-League membership Perth Glory.
The Group D battle between Denmark and Asian champions China kicks off the motion on July 22 with 4 different video games to comply with.
Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide (15,000)
The house of soccer in South Australia since 1960, the bottom has undergone main surgical procedure to carry it as much as scratch for the event, together with a brand new roof on the japanese stand.
It has hosted numerous A-League video games and was a key venue for the 2000 Sydney Olympics soccer event. 5 matches will likely be performed right here throughout 4 teams, and one round-of-16 conflict.
NEW ZEALAND
Eden Park, Auckland (50,000)
(FILES) A basic view exhibits the outside of Eden Park, which is able to host matches through the 2023 Ladies’s World Cup soccer event, in Auckland on June 9, 2018. (Photograph by MICHAEL BRADLEY / AFP)
New Zealand’s nationwide stadium has been residence to cricket and rugby for greater than 100 years and witnessed many memorable moments, together with the 1987 and 2011 Rugby World Cup finals.
The event’s opening match between New Zealand and Norway will likely be right here. The hallowed floor will host 9 video games in whole, together with a semi-final.
Wellington Stadium (34,500)
On the banks of New Zealand’s Wellington Harbour and also called Sky Stadium, it was opened in 2000 and is the house of Tremendous Rugby membership Wellington Hurricanes.
It is going to host 9 video games together with a quarter-final, plus a blockbuster group conflict between the US and the Netherlands in a re-run of the 2019 remaining, which the Individuals received 2-0.
Dunedin Stadium (30,000)
Bordering New Zealand’s beautiful Otago Harbour, it’s acknowledged because the world’s first absolutely enclosed pure turf stadium.
Opened in 2011 and also called Forsyth Barr Stadium, it’s residence to Tremendous Rugby aspect Otago Highlanders and can host six video games, beginning with the Philippines in opposition to Switzerland on July 21.
Waikato Stadium, Hamilton (25,000)
The non secular residence of rugby within the New Zealand North Island metropolis of Hamilton, it hosted two of the inter-confederation play-offs in February.
A brief stroll from town centre, the bottom will stage 5 video games, beginning with the Group C assembly between Zambia and 2011 champions Japan on July 22.
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