Qualification for the

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determined which 15 teams joined

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, the hosts of the 2007 tournament, to play for the Women's World Cup. Europe had 5 qualifying berths, Asia 3.5 berths (including the hosts), North and Central America 2.5 berths, Africa 2 berths, South America 2 berths and Oceania 1 berth. The 16th spot was determined through a

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match between the third-placed teams in North/Central America and Asia.

Africa

The

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functioned as a qualifying tournament. Originally, this tournament was scheduled to be held in

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, but due to "organisational reasons" Gabon withdrew from hosting the competition. 32 teams entered the African Championships and competed for the two available spots, but six withdrew during the qualifying session. On 7 November 2006, and qualified by virtue of winning their semifinal matches.

Asia

: The 2006 AFC Women's Championship functioned as a qualifying tournament. The tournament was originally scheduled to be held in

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, but after the

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moved from the

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to the

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, the Australian team entered the qualifying series. They were awarded hosting rights in February 2006. The Championship took place between 16 July 2006 and 30 July 2006. Since , the host nation of Women's World Cup 2007, proceeded to the final, another finalist, and third-placed , were qualified for the World Cup finals. Fourth-placed qualified for a play-off match with , the third-placed team from the

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Europe

: The 25 teams belonging to the First Category of European women's football were drawn into five groups, from which the group winners qualified for the World Cup finals. The qualifiers concluded on 30 September 2006 with , , , and qualifying.

North America, Central America & Caribbean

The 2006 Women's Gold Cup acted as qualifier tournament for

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. The tournament finals took place between 19 and 26 November 2006.

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and

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received direct qualifying spots after contesting the final of the 2002 Gold Cup, while four other spots were determined through regional qualifying. On 22 November 2006, and qualified by virtue of winning their semifinal matches, while qualified for a play-off match with after defeating Jamaica in the 2006 Gold Cup 3rd place match.

Oceania

One spot was awarded to the winner of the 2007 OFC Women's Championship held 9 April through 13 April 2007 in

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. won this

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and qualified for the

. It is the second time they are part of the

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, the other being in

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South America

The 2006 Sudamericano Femenino acted as qualifier for

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. Originally, a women's football tournament at the 2006 South American Games in

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would serve as qualifier tournament, but the South American Games committee scrapped football from the games, forcing the

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to organize a tournament on short notice.Argentina called its women's national team with a view to Odesur
from Conmebol.com, retrieved 27 July 2006 On 24 November, qualified by earning six points. qualified on 26 November by defeating Brazil and earning a total of 7, thus winning the tournament.

AFC–CONCACAF play-off

Qualified teams

The following teams qualified for the tournament: Every qualifier had participated in a previous Women's World Cup. To date, the 2007 Women's World Cup is the only World Cup for either men or women in which every team in the final tournament had played in a previous World Cup final tournament.

References and notes

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