There are only 2 places to qualify for the women's football qualifiers in Europe for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, and the European women's football team has developed rapidly in recent years, breaking out in an all-round way to become a world-class level, and in the 2023 World Cup, the two European teams successfully met in the final, the Spanish women's football team defeated the England women's football team to win the championship, while the traditional women's football world powerhouse The United States team did not reach the semi-finals. The inaugural edition of the UEFA Women's Nations League will see the two teams qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, while the Netherlands, France, Germany and Spain will join forces to qualify for the semi-finals of the UEFA Women's Nations League, where they will compete for two places to qualify for the Olympic Games.
The inaugural UEFA Women's UEFA UEFA Women's League follows the same schedule as the men's UEFA UEFA Nations League, with 16 teams in the A-League divided into four groups, with the winners of each group advancing to the semi-finals. Group A: Netherlands (w), England (w), Belgium (w), Scotland (w). Group B of Group A: France (w), Austria (w), Norway (w), Portugal (w). Group C of Group A: Germany (w), Denmark (w), Iceland (w), Wales (w). Group D of Group A: Spain (w), Sweden (w), Switzerland (w), Italy (w). After all the group stages were completed, the French women's football team, the Spanish women's football team, the German women's football team and the Dutch women's football team won the group and advanced to the semi-finals of the UEFA Nations League.
In Group A, the Netherlands women's football team has won the World Cup runner-up, England women's football team is the fastest growing team in recent years, in the 2022 Women's European Championship, England women's football team went all the way to the final, in the final, England women's football team and Germany women's football team drew in regular time, in extra time, England hit a fatal blow, and finally defeated the German team to win the European Championship for the first time. In last year's Women's World Cup, England women's football team reached the final again, but unfortunately lost to Spain women's football team in the final, and finally missed the World Cup title. England are currently ranked No. 4 in the world.
In the first Women's European Nations League, the England team won 4 wins and 2 losses in the group stage, in addition to being defeated by the Dutch women's football team 1-2 away, it was also unexpectedly defeated by the Belgian women's football team, and lost the right to qualify from the group, in the last round, the England women's football team defeated the Scottish women's football team 6-0 away, but because the Dutch women's football team in the same group scored two goals in stoppage time, defeated the Belgian women's football team 4-0, the final points of the two teams are the same, both are 12 points,
However, the goal difference of the Dutch women's football team is 8, while the goal difference of the England women's football team is 7, and in the end, the Dutch women's football team beat the England women's football team by 1 goal difference to advance to the semi-finals of the European Nations League.
Previously, the Chinese women's football team was divided into the group of death in the second stage of the Asian zone of the Olympic qualifiers, and finally only won the second place in the group, missed the third stage, and bid farewell to the Paris Olympics. After the defeat in the Olympic preliminaries, Shui Qingxia left the position of head coach of the national team, the Chinese women's football team entered a period of renewal of the old and the new, the coach of the national youth team Wang Jun temporarily took charge, led the new women's football team to the United States for training, and the United States national team for two warm-up games, the United States women's football team is now ranked 3rd in the world, due to the difference in strength between the two teams, the Chinese women's football team lost 0-3 and 1-2 respectively, suffering 2 consecutive defeats. The rebuilding Chinese women's football team chose to play a warm-up match with the World Cup champions, and the value of training is very great, and the Chinese women's football team has gained valuable experience from it, and the young players have also gained experience.