The runner-up Mexico qualified in two playoff-matches against the second-placed team of CONMEBOL - Argentina.
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Out of the 18 teams participating in the tournament, the qualifiers were the four semi-finalists - Denmark, Germany, Italy and Norway - and the best quarter-final loser - Sweden, who lost their two leg quarter-final clash against Italy on a single away goal.
The fourth edition of the Sudamericano Femenino (Women's South American Championship) in 2003 determined the CONMEBOL's qualifiers Brazil and Argentina.
Historically, the women have been more competitive internationally than the men, losing in a penalty shootout to the United States in the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup final, and also finishing fourth in the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup.
On 23 September 2009, she scored a brace against Serbia in a 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification match.
On 23 September 2009, Le Sommer scored her third international goal against Serbia in a 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification match.
The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup will see an increase in the number of finalists from 16 to 24.
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FIFA Women's World Cup qualification is the process a national women's association football team goes through to qualify for the FIFA Women's World Cup Finals, or, more commonly known as the FIFA Women's World Cup.
In September 2013, Čanković made her debut for the senior Serbia women's national football team in a 9–0 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification defeat in Switzerland.
Foxboro Stadium played host to six matches of the 1994 FIFA World Cup, five of the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup, as well as the 2000 Founder's Cup.
In March 2002 she netted her first senior international goal in a 4–1 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification win in the Netherlands.
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In March 2002 Chapman headed her first goal for England in a 4–1 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification win in the Netherlands.
The China women's national football team, organised by the Chinese Football Association, were the first Asian women's team to reach the FIFA Women's World Cup, final in 1999.