1999 FIFA Women's World Cup

Infobox International Football Competition
tourney_name = FIFA Women's World Cup
year = 1999
country = USA
name =
teams = 67
num_teams = 16
champion_other = fbw|USA
second_other = fbw|CHN
third_other = fbw|BRA
count = 2
matches = 32
goals = 123
attendance = 1194215
top scorer = flagicon|Brazil Sissi (7 goals)
flagicon|China Sun Wen (7 goals)The FIFA Women's World Cup 1999 was held on in the United States and won by the host team. The final between the U.S. and China, held at on July 10 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California was the most-attended women's sports event in history with an official attendance of 90,185. The final was scoreless after extra time and won by the U.S. in a penalty shootout, with Brandi Chastain scoring the tournament-winning spotkick. Prior to the winning penalty kick, U.S. goalkeeper Brianna Scurry made a critical save to provide Chastain a chance to score the winning goal.

Venues

*Chicago — Soldier Field
*East Rutherford — Giants Stadium
*Foxborough — Foxboro Stadium
*Palo Alto — Stanford Stadium
*Pasadena — Rose Bowl
*Portland, Oregon — Civic Stadium
*San Jose, California — Spartan Stadium
*Landover, Maryland — Jack Kent Cooke Stadium

Teams

16 teams participated in the final tournament. The teams were:

footballbox
date = June 19, 1999
team1 = fbw-rt|BRA
score = 7 – 1
report = [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=103/edition=4644/matches/match=22153/report.html (Report)]
team2 = fbw|MEX
goals1 = Pretinha goal|3 goal|12 goal|90+1
Sissi goal|29 goal|42 goal|50
Kátia goal|35|pen.
goals2 = Domínguez goal|10
stadium = Giants Stadium, East Rutherford
attendance = 78,972
referee = Petignat (SUI)----footballbox
date = June 20, 1999
team1 = fbw-rt|GER
score = 1 – 1
report = [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=103/edition=4644/matches/match=22155/report.html (Report)]
team2 = fbw|ITA
goals1 = Wiegmann goal|61|pen.
goals2 = Panico goal|36
stadium = Rose Bowl, Pasadena
attendance = 17,100
referee = Abidoye (NGA)----footballbox
date = June 24, 1999
team1 = fbw-rt|BRA
score = 2 – 0
report = [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=103/edition=4644/matches/match=22157/report.html (Report)]
team2 = fbw|ITA
goals1 = Sissi goal|3 goal|63
goals2 =
stadium = Soldier Field, Chicago
attendance = 65,080
referee = Nielsen (DEN)----footballbox
date = June 24, 1999
team1 = fbw-rt|GER
score = 6 – 0
report = [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=103/edition=4644/matches/match=22154/report.html (Report)]
team2 = fbw|MEX
goals1 = Grings goal|10 goal|57 goal|90+2
Smisek goal|46
Hingst goal|49
Lingor goal|89
goals2 =
stadium = Civic Stadium, Portland
attendance = 20,129
referee = Ju (KOR)----footballbox
date = June 27, 1999
team1 = fbw-rt|GER
score = 3 – 3
report = [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=103/edition=4644/matches/match=22158/report.html (Report)]
team2 = fbw|BRA
goals1 = Prinz goal|8
Wiegmann goal|46|pen.
Jones goal|58
goals2 = Kátia goal|15
Sissi goal|20
Maicon goal|90+4
stadium = Jack Kent Cooke Stadium, Landover
attendance = 22,109
referee = Ju (KOR)----footballbox
date = June 27, 1999
team1 = fbw-rt|MEX
score = 0 – 2
report = [http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=103/edition=4644/matches/match=22156/report.html (Report)]
team2 = fbw|ITA
goals1 =
goals2 = Panico goal|37
Zanni goal|51
stadium = Foxboro Stadium, Foxborough
attendance = 50,484
referee = Abidoye (NGA)

Group C

Goalscorers

;7 goals
*flagicon|BRA Sissi
*flagicon|CHN Sun Wen;4 goals
*flagicon|NOR Ann-Kristin Aarønes;3 goals
*flagicon|BRA Pretinha
*flagicon|CHN Jin Yan
*flagicon|CHN Liu Ailing
*flagicon|GER Bettina Wiegmann
*flagicon|GER Inka Grings
*flagicon|NGA Nkiru Okosieme
*flagicon|NOR Hege Riise
*flagicon|NOR Marianne Pettersen
*flagicon|USA Tiffeny Milbrett;2 goals
*flagicon|AUS Julie Murray
*flagicon|BRA Cidinha
*flagicon|BRA Kátia
*flagicon|CAN Charmaine Hooper
*flagicon|CHN Zhang Ouying
*flagicon|ITA Patrizia Panico
*flagicon|PRK Jo Song Ok
*flagicon|NGA Mercy Akide
*flagicon|RUS Elena Fomina
*flagicon|RUS Olga Letuchova
*flagicon|SWE Hanna Ljungberg;2 goals (cont.)
*flagicon|SWE Victoria Svensson
*flagicon|USA Cindy Parlow
*flagicon|USA Kristine Lilly
*flagicon|USA Mia Hamm
*flagicon|USA Michelle Akers
*flagicon|USA Tisha Venturini;1 goal
*flagicon|AUS Cheryl Salisbury
*flagicon|BRA Maicon
*flagicon|BRA Nenê
*flagicon|CAN Silvana Burtini
*flagicon|CHN Fan Yunjie
*flagicon|CHN Liu Ying
*flagicon|CHN Pu Wei
*flagicon|CHN Zhao Lihong
*flagicon|DEN Janni Johansen
*flagicon|GER Ariane Hingst
*flagicon|GER Birgit Prinz
*flagicon|GER Renate Lingor
*flagicon|GER Sandra Smisek
*flagicon|GHA Nana Gyamfua
*flagicon|JPN Otake Nami
*flagicon|PRK Jin Pyol Hui
*flagicon|PRK Kim Kum Sil
*flagicon|MEX Maribel Domínguez
*flagicon|USA Brandi Chastain;1 goal (cont.)
*flagicon|GER Steffi Jones
*flagicon|NGA Nkechi Egbe
*flagicon|NGA Prisca Emeafu
*flagicon|NGA Rita Nwadike
*flagicon|NOR Brit Sandaune
*flagicon|NOR Dagny Mellgren
*flagicon|NOR Linda Medalen
*flagicon|NOR Solveig Gulbrandsen
*flagicon|NOR Unni Lehn
*flagicon|ITA Paola Zanni
*flagicon|RUS Galina Komarova
*flagicon|RUS Irina Grigorieva
*flagicon|RUS Larissa Savina
*flagicon|RUS Natalia Barbachina
*flagicon|RUS Natalia Karasseva
*flagicon|RUS Olga Karasseva
*flagicon|SWE Jane Tornqvist
*flagicon|SWE Kristin Bengtsson
*flagicon|SWE Malin Moström
*flagicon|USA Brandi Chastain
*flagicon|USA Joy Fawcett
*flagicon|USA Julie Foudy
*flagicon|USA Shannon MacMillan

;Own goals
*flagicon|JPN Isozaki Hiromi (for Norway)
*flagicon|NGA Ifeanyichukwu Chiejine (for USA)

References

New York Times: WOMEN'S WORLD CUP; Scurry Admits Bending Rule [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE6DD1E3CF930A25754C0A96F958260]