2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification
The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification process decided all 24 teams which played in the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, with the hosts France qualifying automatically. It is the eighth FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international women's football world championship tournament. The tournament is the third to be hosted in Europe, after the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup in Sweden and the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany.
Qualified teams
| Team | Qualified as | Qualification date | Appearance in finals | Last appearance | Consecutive streak | Previous best performance |
| 19 3 2015 | 4th | 2015 | 3 | |||
| 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup 3rd place | 9 4 2018 | 7th | 2015 | 2 | ||
| 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup 4th place | 12 4 2018 | 2nd | 2015 | 2 | ||
| 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup runners-up | 13 4 2018 | 7th | 2015 | 7 | ||
| 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup champions | 13 4 2018 | 8th | 2015 | 8 | ||
| 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup 5th place | 16 4 2018 | 3rd | 2015 | 2 | ||
| 2018 Copa América Femenina champions | 19 4 2018 | 8th | 2015 | 8 | ||
| 2018 Copa América Femenina runners-up | 22 4 2018 | 1st | – | 1 | ||
| UEFA qualification Group 7 winners | 2nd | 2015 | 2 | |||
| UEFA qualification Group 6 winners | 3rd | 1999 | 1 | |||
| UEFA qualification Group 1 winners | 31 8 2018 | 5th | 2015 | 4 | ||
| UEFA qualification Group 2 winners | 4 9 2018 | 1st | – | 1 | ||
| UEFA qualification Group 3 winners | 4 9 2018 | 8th | 2015 | 8 | ||
| UEFA qualification Group 4 winners | 4 9 2018 | 8th | 2015 | 8 | ||
| UEFA qualification Group 5 winners | 4 9 2018 | 8th | 2015 | 8 | ||
| 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship runners-up | 7th | 2015 | 7 | |||
| 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship champions | 8th | 2015 | 8 | |||
| 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship 3rd place | 17.10.2018 | 1st | – | 1 | ||
| UEFA qualification play-off winners | 2nd | 2015 | 2 | |||
| CONCACAF–CONMEBOL play-off winners | 3rd | 2007 | 1 | |||
| 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations champions | 8th | 2015 | 8 | |||
| 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations runners-up | 1st | – | 1 | |||
| 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations 3rd place | 30.11.2018 | 2nd | 2015 | 2 | ||
| 2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup champions | 1 12 2018 | 5th | 2015 | 4 |
Qualification process
The slot allocation was approved by the FIFA Council on 13–14 October 2016. The slots for each confederation are unchanged from that of the previous tournament except the slot for the hosts is moved from CONCACAF to UEFA.Summary of qualification
Qualifying matches started on 3 April 2017, and ended on 1 December 2018.Apart from the host France, 207 of the 210 remaining FIFA member associations could qualify through their own confederation's qualifying process if they choose to enter. The exceptions were Guatemala and Kuwait, whose football associations were suspended by FIFA, and Equatorial Guinea, which were banned from the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. Guam, Lebanon, Sierra Leone, and Turks and Caicos Islands were initially drawn into qualifying stages but they withdrew from their qualifying tournaments.
More than 30 countries, mostly in Asia and Africa, did not enter qualification, including Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Egypt, which qualified teams for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
| Confederation | Tournament | Available slots | Nations started | Nations eliminated | Nations qualified | Qualification start | Qualification end |
| AFC | 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup | 5 | 24 | 19 | 5 | 3 April 2017 | 20 April 2018 |
| CAF | 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations | 3 | 24 | 21 | 3 | 4 April 2018 | 1 December 2018 |
| CONCACAF | 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship | 3.5 | 28 | 25 | 3 | 5 May 2018 | 17 October 2018 |
| CONMEBOL | 2018 Copa América Femenina | 2.5 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 4 April 2018 | 22 April 2018 |
| OFC | 2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup | 1 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 24 August 2018 | 1 December 2018 |
| UEFA | 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification | 8+H | 46+H | 38 | 8+H | 6 April 2017 | 13 November 2018 |
| Total | 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification | 23+H | 143+H | 120 | 23+H | 3 April 2017 | 1 December 2018 |
- H: Hosts
Confederation qualification
AFC
As in the previous World Cup cycle, the AFC Women's Asian Cup served as the World Cup qualifying tournament for AFC members. The World Cup qualifying process was as follows:- Qualifying stage: The qualifying for the 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup was held from 3 to 12 April 2017. 24 teams entered the competition, with Japan, Australia, and China automatically qualified for the final tournament by their position as the top three teams of the 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup and thus not participating in the qualifying competition. Jordan also automatically qualified for the final tournament as hosts, but decided to also participate in the qualifying competition. The 21 teams were drawn into one group of six teams and three groups of five teams. In each group, teams played each other once at a centralised venue, and the four group winners qualified for the final tournament. Since Jordan won their group, the runner-up of this group also qualified for the final tournament.
- Final tournament: Eight teams played in the 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup, which was held from 6 to 20 April 2018 in Jordan. They were drawn into two groups of four teams. The top two teams of each group qualified for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup as well as advance to the knockout stage, while the third-placed teams of each group advanced to the fifth-placed play-off, where the winner of the play-off qualified for the World Cup.
Qualifying stage
Final tournament
Group AGroup B
Knockout stage
CAF
As in the previous World Cup cycle, the Africa Women Cup of Nations served as the World Cup qualifying tournament for CAF members. The World Cup qualifying process was as follows:- Qualifying stage: The qualifying for the 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations was held from 4 April to 9 June 2018. 24 teams entered the qualifying competition, with four teams earning byes to the second round, and the remaining 20 teams entering the first round. Qualification ties were played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. The seven winners of the second round qualified for the final tournament to join the hosts Ghana who qualified automatically.
- Final tournament: Eight teams played in the 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations, which was held from 17 November to 1 December 2018 in Ghana. They were drawn into two groups of four teams. The top two teams of each group advanced to the knockout stage, where the winners of the semi-finals and the third place play-off qualified for the World Cup.
Qualifying stage
The seven winners of the second qualifying round advanced to the final tournament: Algeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Mali, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zambia.Final tournament
Group AGroup B
Knockout stage
CONCACAF
As in the previous World Cup cycle, the CONCACAF Women's Championship served as the World Cup qualifying tournament for CONCACAF members. The World Cup qualifying process was as follows:- Qualifying stage: Regional qualification tournaments were held in the Central American Zone and the Caribbean Zone. Two teams from the Central American Zone and three teams from the Caribbean Zone qualified for the final tournament to join the three teams from the North American Zone, Canada, Mexico, and the United States, who qualified automatically.
- Final tournament: Eight teams played in the 2018 CONCACAF Women's Championship, which was held from 4 to 17 October 2018 in the United States. They were drawn into two groups of four teams. The top two teams of each group advanced to the knockout stage, where the winners of the semi-finals and the third place play-off qualified for the World Cup. The losers of the third-place play-off entered the CONCACAF–CONMEBOL play-off.
Qualifying stage
and Panama qualified from the Central American Zone, while Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Cuba qualified from the Caribbean Zone.Final tournament
Group AGroup B
Knockout stage
CONMEBOL
As in the previous World Cup cycle, the Copa América Femenina served as the World Cup qualifying tournament for CONMEBOL members. The World Cup qualifying process was as follows:- Final tournament: Ten teams played in the 2018 Copa América Femenina, which was held between 4 and 22 April 2018 in Chile. They were drawn into two groups of five teams. The top two teams of each group advanced to the round-robin final stage, where the top two teams qualified for the World Cup. The third-placed team entered the CONCACAF–CONMEBOL play-off.
Final tournament
Group B
Final stage
OFC
As in the previous World Cup cycle, the OFC Women's Nations Cup served as the World Cup qualifying tournament for OFC members. The World Cup qualifying process was as follows:- Qualifying stage: The four lowest-ranked teams based on previous regional performances of all women’s national teams entered the qualifying stage, which was held from 24 to 30 August 2018 in Fiji. The winner qualified for the final tournament, joining the other seven teams which automatically qualified.
- Final tournament: Eight teams played in the final tournament, which was held between 18 November to 1 December 2018 in New Caledonia. They were drawn into two groups of four teams. The top two teams of each group advanced to the knockout stage to decide the winner of the OFC Women's Nations Cup which qualified for the World Cup.
Qualifying stage
Final tournament
Group AGroup B
Knockout stage
UEFA
As in the previous World Cup cycle, UEFA organised a tournament for its members designed only for World Cup qualifying. The World Cup qualifying process was as follows:- Preliminary round: The 16 lowest-ranked teams of the 46 entrants according to their UEFA coefficient entered the preliminary round, which was held from 3 to 11 April 2017. They were drawn into four groups of four teams, where each group played in single round-robin format at one of the pre-selected hosts. The four group winners and the best runner-up advanced to the qualifying group stage.
- Qualifying group stage: 35 teams, including the 30 highest-ranked teams which received byes and the five qualifiers from the preliminary round, played in the qualifying group stage, which was held on dates in the FIFA Women's International Match Calendar from 11 September 2017 to 4 September 2018. They were drawn into seven groups of five teams, where each group was played in home-and-away round-robin format. The seven group winners qualified for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, while the four best runners-up advanced to the play-offs.
- Play-offs: The four teams played two knockout rounds of home-and-away two-legged matches, which were held from 1 to 9 October and 5 to 13 November 2018, where the winner of the play-off final round qualified for the World Cup.
Preliminary round
Qualifying group stage
Group 1Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
Group 6
Group 7
Ranking of second-placed teams