The 2027 Women’s World Cup will be the 10th edition of the tournament and is due to take place in Brazil from 24 June to 25 July 2027. It will be the second and final edition to feature 32 teams, before the 2031 tournament expands to 48. Eight venues will host matches, all of which were previously used at the men’s 2014 World Cup. Brazil have already qualified as hosts, while Spain go into the tournament as current champions after beating England to win their first World Cup title in 2023.
A total of 32 teams will qualify from six confederations and the inter-confederation play-off tournament. Europe has 11 slots, Asia six, Africa four, North America, Central America and the Caribbean four, South America three, Oceania one, and the inter-confederation play-off tournament three. Ten teams will enter the inter-confederation play-offs, with Uzbekistan, Chinese Taipei, Ghana, South Africa, Venezuela, Ecuador and Papua New Guinea the seven nations guaranteed to enter at present.
Brazil are joined by a growing list of confirmed qualifiers. From Europe, France, Denmark, Germany and Spain have secured places. From Asia, Australia, China, South Korea, Japan, the Philippines and North Korea have qualified. Africa’s confirmed qualifiers are Algeria, Morocco, Cameroon and Malawi. In South America, Brazil are in as hosts and are joined by Argentina and Colombia. New Zealand have qualified from Oceania. No teams have yet qualified from North America, Central America and the Caribbean, and no teams have yet come through the inter-confederation play-off tournament.
European qualifying began with a first round played between March and June 2026. The 53 European nations were split into three leagues based on the 2025 Uefa Women’s Nations League, with 16 teams in each of Leagues A and B and 21 in League C. The four League A group winners earned direct qualification: Denmark, France, Spain and Germany. The remaining League A teams dropped into the play-offs, including England and the Republic of Ireland. The top three sides from each League B group also enter the play-offs, as do the six League C group winners and the two best League C group runners-up. The qualifying campaign also served as a promotion and relegation decider for the next edition of the Uefa Women’s Nations League.
The European play-offs will be held in two rounds between October and December 2026. In the first round, 32 teams will be split across Path 1 and Path 2. In Path 1, teams who finished second and third in League A will play against the sides who reached the play-offs from League C in two-legged matches in October, with the winners reaching the second round. In Path 2, the bottom-placed sides from League A and the top League B winners will face the second and third place teams from League B, also in two-legged matches in October, for a place in the second round. In the second round, across November and December, Path 1 winners will face Path 2 winners in two-legged matches. The winners will qualify for the 2027 World Cup. Another nation that does not qualify directly will earn a spot in the inter-confederation play-offs, where they will get a final chance to qualify.
Path 1 fixtures: Lithuania vs Sweden, Romania vs Norway, Greece vs England, Croatia vs Iceland, Kazakhstan vs Republic of Ireland, Kosovo vs Austria, Hungary vs Netherlands, and Belarus vs Italy.
Path 2 fixtures: Albania vs Wales, Turkey vs Slovenia, Slovakia vs Ukraine, Israel vs Switzerland, Belgium vs Poland, Czech Republic vs Scotland, Northern Ireland vs Portugal, and Finland vs Serbia.
Eight host cities were announced by Fifa in May 2025: Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, Fortaleza, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and Sao Paulo. The eight selected stadiums are Estadio Mineirao in Belo Horizonte, Estadio Nacional in Brasilia, Arena Castelao in Fortaleza, Estadio Beira-Rio in Porto Alegre, Arena de Pernambuco in Recife, Estadio do Maracana in Rio de Janeiro, Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador, and Arena Itaquera in Sao Paulo. The Maracana in Rio de Janeiro, which hosted the 1950 and 2014 men’s World Cup finals, is the largest stadium selected with a capacity of 78,838. It was also the stage for the final of the women’s Olympic football tournament in 2016.