The draw for the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup 2022 took place on Friday, revealing the pathway to glory later this year for some of the world’s best young female players and national teams.With less than four months to go now until the tournament kicks off in India, the future stars of the women’s game will take to the field at the World Cup scheduled to take place from 11 to 30 October across three host Cities – Bhubaneswar, Goa and Navi Mumbai.The draw for the U17 FIFA Women’s World Cup has been completed with African countries Morocco🇲🇦, Nigeria 🇳🇬 and Tanzania🇹🇿 being drawn in Group A, B and D respectively pic.twitter.com/JUr2hZr0YG— OurAfricanFootball.com (@ourAfricanFooty) June 24, 2022 Host Mollie Kmita presented the Official Draw and was joined by former US Women’s national team player and FIFA Women’s World Cup winner, Heather O’Reilly, former coach of the New Zealand national team, Ricki Herbert, as well as Jaime Yarza, FIFA’s Director of Tournaments, and Sarai Bareman, FIFA Chief Women’s Football Officer, who conducted the draw.In the draw, hosts India will play the opening match of the tournament against USA, joining Brazil and Morocco in Group A. Morocco’s Atlas Lionesses clinched their first-ever qualification to the World Cup after beating Ghana 4-2 during penalties (2-2 on aggregate) in a breathless game held at the Moulay El Hassan Stadium in Rabat, Morocco.Groups for the #U17WWC are SET! 🤩Which game are you most looking forward to?See you in India! 🇮🇳 | #KickOffTheDream pic.twitter.com/Mb4FCfPILd— FIFA Women’s World Cup (@FIFAWWC) June 24, 2022 Spain, who won the last edition of the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in 2018, were drawn in Group C, alongside Colombia, Mexico and China PR.Nigeria, who are making a return to the global showpiece for a sixth appearance after missing the Uruguay 2018 edition, sit in pool B alongside Chile, Germany and New Zealand while East African side Tanzania, who will also be making their debut in the competition, sit in pool D alongside Japan, Canada and France.Here we go! Our Flamingos have been drawn in Group B ahead of the U17 FIFA Women’s World Cup billed to be staged in India. pic.twitter.com/2rzrLVLEMo— The NFF 🇳🇬 (@thenff) June 24, 2022 The top two teams from each of the four groups will advance to the quarterfinals of the global tournament.
