Aus-NZ 2023 – Inside World Football

Visa adds 33 new players to Team Visa programme ahead of 2023 Women’s World Cup

Paul Nicholson — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 01:36:53 +0000

April 12 – FIFA sponsor Visa has unveiled the names of 33 women players who it will sponsor via its Team Visa programme up to and through the Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023.

Visa is the Exclusive Payment Service Partner of FIFA, and has run its Team Visa programme since 2000. To date Visa has provided support to more than 500 athletes worldwide.

The programme is designed to help players “thrive personally and professionally”.

Aussies tame Lionesses as countdown to WWC kick-off begins

Paul Nicholson — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 04:10:20 +0000

April 12 – World Cup joint hosts Australia upset England’s women 2-0 in a friendly at Brentford on Tuesday to end the Lionesses’ 30-match unbeaten streak.

Sam Kerr, who plays for nearby Chelsea in the English Super League, gave the injury-hit Matildas a first-half lead and Charlotte Grant added the second after the break.

For the European champions, who beat Brazil on penalties to win the inaugural women’s Finalissima at Wembley last week,

FIFA beats 100-day path to WWC kick-off with final ticket sales push

Paul Nicholson — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 08:41:34 +0000

April 11 – The countdown for the Women’s World Cup is on. On Tuesday, Australia and New Zealand marked 100 days until the kick-off of the women’s flagship tournament and the Football Ferns taking on Norway in the curtain raiser.

To mark the milestone, the ‘Unity Beat’ – a tournament chant of symbolic nature – was unveiled and the last-minute sales phase for the finals got underway.

“When the Unity Beat plays in each of the tournament’s nine welcoming host cities,

Jacob’s Creek breaks new sponsorship ground as first wine sponsor of WWC 2023

Paul Nicholson — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 04:32:52 +0000

April 5 – Australian wine brand Jacob’s Creek has become an Official Supporter of the Women’s World Cup 2023 that kicks of July 20.

Jacob’s Creek, a favourite Australian wine, will welcome the world to its home in Australia and across the Tasman in Aotearoa New Zealand for the 32-team tournament, which kicks off on 20 July.

Retailers in Australia and New Zealand will support Jacob’s Creek’s Women’s World Cup partnership through consumer competitions,

Injury set to keep England striker Mead out of World Cup

Paul Nicholson — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 08:06:06 +0000

March 29 – England’s Beth Mead, star of her country’s Euro triumph, will miss out on this summer’s World Cup unless a “miracle happens” according to manager Sarina Wiegman.

The Lionesses boss has omitted Mead in her squad for friendlies against Brazil and Australia as the forward continues to recover from a knee injury.

Mead, who claimed the Golden Boot and player of the tournament award when England won the Euros last summer,

FIFA unveils Women’s World Cup 2023 poster collection

Paul Nicholson — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 07:11:23 +0000

March 7 – The final teams have now qualified, the World Cup trophy is on tour and headed for Australia and New Zealand, and now the official poster for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 has been released.

The series of ten posters include nine bespoke Host City posters and were unveiled in pop-up-style outdoor gallery installations in Adelaide/Tarntanya and Wellington/Te Whanganui-a-Tara, New Zealand.

The posters were released in time for International Women’s Day,

Panama complete WWC 2023 line up and are sixth Concacaf nation though to finals

Paul Nicholson — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 11:01:01 +0000

February 23 – Panama became the sixth Concacaf nation to qualify for the Women’s World Cup in Australia/New Zealand this summer with a 1-0 play-off win over Papua New Guinea in Hamilton, New Zealand.

Panama join World Champions USA, Olympic champions Canada, Jamaica, Costa Rica and Haiti as the Concacaf contingent heading for the finals. Panama, like Haiti, qualified through the inter-continental play-offs staged in New Zealand, and are the last team though to the finals.

Inter Rapidísimo joins sponsor roster for Women’s World Cup 2023

Paul Nicholson — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 08:15:38 +0000

February 23 – Colombian logistics company Inter Rapidísimo has become an Official Supporter of the Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023 tournament.

The deal sees Inter Rapidísimo expand its relationship with FIFA been the first Colombian company to be named Official Regional Supporter of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar last year.

Inter Rapidísimo will receive stadium perimeter advertising, as well as the use of official archive content and FIFA’s marks.

Haiti and Portugal make history to secure Australia/New Zealand world cup slots

Paul Nicholson — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 11:26:02 +0000

February 22 – Two of the three outstanding qualification slots for the Women’s World Cup 2023 have been filled with Haiti beating Chile 2-1 to make history and qualify for their first women’s World Cup and Portugal also set to make their WWC debut after beating Cameroon 2-1.

The final berth for Australia/New Zealand will be filled by the winners of Paraguay vs Panama.

Haiti may be in turmoil at home – both politically and within the leadership of its football federation – but their 2-1 win over Chile in Auckland makes them the fifth Concacaf team and the second team to qualify for a Women’s World Cup from the Caribbean.

WWC qualification play-offs start in NZ with three slots still open

Paul Nicholson — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 13:47:01 +0000

February 17 – The final qualification play-offs for the last three Women’s World Cup slots begin tomorrow in New Zealand, one of the co-hosts of the finals in the summer.

Portugal and Chile have been given a bye in the first round.

Cameroon, Haiti, Panama, Paraguay, Senegal, Thailand, Taiwan and Papua New Guinea will be vieing for a coveted ticket to the global finals. Ranked 22nd in the world, the Portuguese will play the winners of Cameroon vs Thailand Saturday in Hamilton.