Women's World Cup

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The Women's World Cup is the female version of the NationStates World Cup of football. Women have appeared for World Cup teams for many years, but it took until after World Cup 27 before enough money and interest was raised to see an all-female World Cup hosted - in Chicanada, who have also had a professional women's league, the WomensLiga

Women's World Cup 1

Main article(s): Women's World Cup 1

Seedings for the inaugural Women's World Cup were based on the results of the women's football competition at the Tyrellian Ylompic Games, which were won by Spruitland. However, Spruitland were eliminated at the second round stage by Yafor 2, and instead it was Ylompic silver medallist Liverpool England who repaired a poor group stage start (P4 W1 D2 L1) to go undefeated through the knock-outs, beating Sarzonia 4–2 in the final. Hosts Chicanada took third place.

Rankings

Qazoxian Ranking System

Women's World Cup 2

Main article(s): Women's World Cup 2

Seedings for 2nd Women's World Cup were determined by the Qazoxian Ranking System. The Defending Champions Liverpool England declined to participate, leave the top seed in the qualifying stages to runners-up Sarzonia. A total of 38 teams will compete for the 19 open spots during qualifying. Chicanada automatically qualified as the host.

The twenty teams in the cup finals finished thier group play and the 5th place squads were sent home, whilr the 3rd and 4th place teams participated in a ranking bracket for 9th through 16th place. the Top two teams from each group advanced to the Championship Bracket and will determine the Cup winners.

Women's World Cup 3

Main article(s): Women's World Cup 3

Signups have started at: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=489669 Host bids are still yet to be determined, but Chicanada, hosts of the 1st two cups will not host the third unless no bid are put forth.