Rules defined for the draw of groups for the 2027 Women's Cup
Event takes place on December 11th at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro; Brazil will be seeded in position A1
Quick Look
- FIFA announced the opening of the draw for the eight groups for the 2027 Women's World Cup in Brazil.
- The event will take place on December 11th at MAM in Rio de Janeiro, with 32 teams divided into four pots.
- Brazil, as host, will be seeded in position A1 and already knows the stadiums for the first three games: Maracanã, Arena Itaquera and Mané Garrincha.
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Why It Matters
The 2027 Women's World Cup will be hosted by Brazil. The group draw will take place on December 11th at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. Twenty-nine of the 32 teams will already be classified on the date of the event.
FIFA announced this Wednesday (11) how the draw that will define the eight groups of the 2027 Women's Football World Cup, hosted in Brazil, will work.
The event that will organize the 32 selections - 29 of which will already be classified at the moment - takes place on December 11th, at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (MAM).
The Brazilian team already knew that it would be one of the eight seeded teams and that, as the host, it would occupy position A1 in the group formation, therefore, all that remained was to know who the opponents would be.
Brazil already knows the stages and dates of the first three games: Maracanã (on June 24), Arena Itaquera (June 29) and Mané Garrincha (July 4).
The distribution of selections across the four draw pots will be as follows:
With the exception of Brazil, the seven best classified in the last update of the FIFA rankings before the event will occupy the remaining places in pot 1, destined for the seeded teams;
The next eight will go to pot 2 and the subsequent eight will go to pot 3.
Pot 4 will contain the remaining five teams already classified when the draw is held, in addition to three more undefined teams, which will be known after next year's repechage, which will take place between February 23 and March 6, 2027.
As is customary in draws of this type, after Brazil is allocated to group A, the other seven countries in pot 1 will be drawn into groups B to H; Then the same will happen with the countries in pots 2, 3 and, finally, 4, following the numerical order.
Another principle respected by FIFA is to prevent teams affiliated to the same confederation from being in the same group, with the exception of Europe, which will have 11 or 12 representatives.
It is also established that the first place in the entity's ranking at the time of the draw will be on the opposite side of the second place, with the same situation happening with the third and fourth placed, to prevent these countries from facing each other before the semi-finals if they win their groups.
Open Questions
- Which three teams will complete pot 4 after the 2027 playoff?
- What are the exact dates for Brazil's games besides the first three?
- What will be the full competition schedule?
