July 7 – England and Beth Mead kicked off their Euro 2022 party with a narrow 1-0 win against Austria in the tournament’s curtain-raiser in front of a record crowd for a Women’s Euro match of 68,871 fans at Old Trafford.
July 6 – Zambian captain and star Barbra Banda has been ruled out of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations over ‘gender eligibility’ issues, prompting controversy at the tournament.
July 5 – For 79 minutes Trinidad and Tobago bravely rode their luck against a dominant Canadian team. And then disaster struck as four goals in the final 11 minutes turned a tough evening into a 6-0 miserable one for the Caribbean debutants.
July 5 – Costa Rica opened their Concacaf W Championship challenge in style with a 3-0 win over Panama.
By Andrew Warshaw
July 5 – A year after the country’s men’s team suffered the heartache of losing in the Euros final, England’s Lionesses are aiming to go one better in the women’s tournament that gets under way on Wednesday.
July 5 – US star forward Alex Morgan wasted no time getting her 2022 Concacaf W Championship goalscoring account going in Monterrey, with two goals in the USA’s 3-0 win over Haiti.
July 5 – Hosts Mexico were stunned by an early Khadija Shaw goal, leaving them with a mountain to climb if they are qualify for the semi-finals of the CWC and an automatic 2023 World Cup spot.
July 4 – Concacaf president Victor Montagliani has sent a message across the region saying that he hopes the 2022 Concacaf W Championship “demonstrates to women and girls in our region that they belong in football, and that the sport is as much for them as anybody else.”
July 4 – Skip Marley has released the official anthem ‘Lions’ for the 2022 Concacaf W Championship from July 4-18th, and will be in Monterrey to perform it before the final at Estadio BBVA on July 18.
July 4 – The Women’s European Championship starting on Wednesday will draw a record attendance with 500,000 tickets already snapped up before the first ball is kicked, breaking the previous record set in 2017 in The Netherlands where 240,000 fans attended matches and saw the hosts lift the trophy for the first time.
July 4 – Mexico will open their homes hosting of the Concacaf W Championship in fornt of an expected 42,000 capacity crowd in Estadio Universitario tonight.
July 4 – World Champions the USA will open Concacaf W Championship 2022 in Monterrey, Mexico later today at the Estadio Universitario, against Haiti.
July 1 – Concacaf has announced the match officials selected to participate in the 2022 Concacaf W Championship.
The Estadio BBVA, nicknamed ‘El Gigante de Acero’(Spanish for ‘The Steel Giant), will host the final of the final of the Concacaf W Championship, the third place play-off, and six group games.
The stadium is the home fo LigaMX side C.F. Monterrey and earlier this month was confirmed as one of the host venues for the 2026 World Cup.
Capacity for the World Cup will be 53,600,
How they qualified
The Canadian’s women team automatically qualified for the Concacaf WChampionship after finishing as runners-up in 2018. They are Olympic champions from Tokyo and as one of the two highest ranked Concacaf teams – alongside the US – they were top seeded into group B, drawn with Costa Rica, Panama and Trinidad and Tobago.
Tournament record
Canada are the only team to dethrone USA and their dominance of Concacaf championship history,
