The 2024 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup draw was held in the Dominican Republic today. (Photo by Jaydee … [+] Lee Serrano – FIFA/FIFA bymeansof Getty Images)
The phase is set for the 8th edition of the 2024 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup, which will be the last edition of the competition in its existing format. From next year onwards, it will broaden to 24 groups and shift from a biennial to an yearly format.
This edition of the competition will likewise be extremely unique for the host country, the Dominican Republic. This will be the first-ever FIFA occasion they host and likewise mark their launching at a FIFA Wprophecy’s World Cup for any age group. Joining them will be giants from different confederations consistingof Brazil, Japan, Nigeria, Spain and the Under-17 United States Women’s National Team (USWNT) amongst 16 rivals entirely.
The format of the competitors sees the group divided into 4 groups of 4 to kick things off, with the leading 2 in each group advancing to the knockouts beginning with the quarterfinals. The group phase draw was held today, currently teasing us with some extremely fascinating matches before the competition gets underway in mid-October.
Group A
As per custom, the hosts were the veryfirst group drawn. The Dominican Republic will make their competition launching on home soil, with their just previous significant worldwide experience at this level coming in the 2022 CONCACAF Wprophecy’s U-17 Championship which they likewise hosted. They were thumped 10-0 by Mexico in the quarterfinals then, so their reasonable target needto be to put together 3 competitive efficiencies.
Fellow debutantes Ecuador will signupwith them in the group after certifying by completing an remarkable 3rd in this year’s South American Under-17 Women’s Championship. The favorites to advance to the knockouts, though, will be New Zealand and Nigeria, who will be making their 7th and 8th U-17 WWC looks respectively.
Group B
Two-time protecting champs Spain were drawn into Group B, which turned out to be a bit of a group of death. Their under-17s won the European Championship earlier this year in dominant style as they won all 5 videogames with 19 objectives scored and