Group A of the

2023 FIFA Women's World Cup The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup is scheduled to be the ninth edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup competition, the quadrennial international women's football championship contested by the women's national association football teams organised ...

was one of eight groups that form the opening round of the tournament with the matches played from 20 to 30 July 2023. The group consisted of hosts New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines and

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. The top two teams, Switzerland and Norway, advanced to the round of 16. New Zealand thus became the first FIFA Women's World Cup host country to be eliminated in the group stage, and it was also the sixth consecutive exit in which New Zealand had failed to advance past the group stage. 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.

Teams

Notes

Standings

In the round of 16: * The winners of Group A, Switzerland, advanced to play the runners-up of Group C, Spain. * The runners-up of Group A, Norway, advanced to play the winners of Group C,

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Matches

All times listed are local,

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( UTC+12).

New Zealand vs Norway

Philippines vs Switzerland

New Zealand vs Philippines

This was only the second ever win for a Southeast Asian country (excluding

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which geographically is not in Southeast Asia) at a senior World Cup (male or female) and the first since Thailand beat

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in the 2015 Women's World Cup.

Switzerland vs Norway

Switzerland vs New Zealand

Norway vs Philippines

Discipline

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: *first yellow card: minus 1 point; *indirect red card (second yellow card): minus 3 points; *direct red card: minus 4 points; *yellow card and direct red card: minus 5 points; Only one of the above deductions was applied to a player in a single match.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Group A 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup New Zealand at the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup Norway at the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup Philippines at the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup Switzerland at the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup