FIFPRO President David Aganzo mentioned: “We should make sure that the framework of the sport sits on robust foundations and promotes fairness, equity, and highest apply for gamers, anyplace they compete.
“For the FIFA Ladies’s Global Cup to be a actually elite international tournament, the qualifying should even be of an elite usual. We stay significantly captivated with the opportunity of the ladies’s recreation, however it will be important to offer gamers in each a part of the sector with prerequisites and alternatives that give you the highest platform for them at the global degree, in order that they and the sport flourish in all places.”
Just one confederation, UEFA, supplied a standalone qualification procedure; the opposite 5 depended on confederation championships, which doubled up as Global Cup qualification and, with regards to Concacaf and Conmebol, tripled up as 2024 Olympic qualifiers. The analysis highlights how enhancements are wanted in all areas on the entirety from well being to restoration, and from coaching prerequisites to reimbursement.
In UEFA qualifying, there have been 12 house and away fits. For the opposite confederations the get admission to to the 2023 Ladies’s Global Cup was once by way of the AFC Ladies’s Asian Cup, Ladies’s Africa Cup of International locations, Concacaf W Championship, the Copa The us Femenina, and OFC Ladies’s International locations Cup. Some nationwide groups certified at once, and others entered the first-ever inter-confederation play-off.