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The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup is the seventh FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international women's football world championship tournament. In March 2011, Canada won the right to host the event, the first time the country will host the tournament and the third time it has been in North America. The tournament began on 6 June 2015 and will finish on 5 July.

The 2015 tournament saw the World Cup expanded to 24 teams from 16 in 2011. Canada received direct entry as host, and a qualification tournament of 134 teams was held for the remaining 23 places. With the expanded tournament, eight teams made their Women's World Cup debut at the 2015 tournament. All previous Women's World Cup finalists qualified for the tournament, with established nations Germany, Japan, and the USA all among the pre-tournament favourites.


The tournament is using goal-line technology for the first time with the Hawk-Eye system, and will also be the first Women's World Cup to be played on artificial turf. Players expressed concerns over potential injuries from the artificial turf, but a legal case asking for matches to be moved was dropped in January 2015.

The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup is one of the first FIFA tournaments under new rights deals in two North American markets. In its host country of Canada, the competition are televised by CTV, TSN and RDS (French) through a new rights agreement with parent company Bell Media.

In the United States, English-language television and radio rights are held by Fox Sports, NBC-owned Telemundo and NBC Universo handle Spanish-language television broadcasts, and Spanish-language radio rights were given to the Futbol de Primera radio network (although that network is not broadcasting this tournament due to conflicts with the 2015 Copa América).

On 8 December 2014 FIFA signed a contract with the European Broadcasting Union for 37 countries.

In the United Kingdom all matches from the tournament are being shown by the BBC across BBC Two, BBC Three and the BBC Red Button, with selected matches including all England games live on BBC Radio.

In Australia, SBS aired all 52 matches live online, and televised 41 matches live, with the only matches not televised live being those which aired concurrently.

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