On 19 March 2015, France officially won the bid to host the Women's World Cup and the U-20 Women's World Cup. France and South Korea made official bids for hosting the tournament by submitting their documents by 31 October 2014. Both Japan and Sweden had also expressed interest in bidding for the 2019 tournament, but Japan chose to focus on the 2019 Rugby World Cup and the 2020 Summer Olympics, whilst Sweden decided to focus on European U-17 competitions instead. South Africa registered an expression of interest by the April 2014 deadline but later decided to withdraw prior to the final October deadline. Both England and New Zealand registered expressions of interest by the April 2014 deadline, but in June 2014 it was announced that each would no longer proceed. Initially, five countries indicated interest in hosting the events: England, France, South Korea, New Zealand and South Africa. As a principle, FIFA preferred the 2019 Women's World Cup and the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup to be hosted by the same member association, but reserved the right to award the hosting of the events separately. Member associations interested in hosting the tournament had to submit a declaration of interest by 15 April 2014, and provide the complete set of bidding documents by 31 October 2014. On 6 March 2014, FIFA announced that bidding had begun for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. 15 Qualified UEFA teams for Summer Olympics.The matches were broadcast globally and attracted a combined audience of 1.12 billion people. In doing so, they secured their record fourth title and became the second nation, after Germany, to have successfully retained the title. The United States entered the competition as defending champions after winning the 2015 edition in Canada and successfully defended their title with a 2–0 victory over the Netherlands in the final. This was the second and last edition with 24 teams before expanding to 32 teams for the 2023 tournament in Australia and New Zealand. The tournament was the first Women's World Cup to use the video assistant referee (VAR) system.
It took place between 7 June and 7 July 2019, with 52 matches staged in nine cities in France, which was awarded the right to host the event in March 2015, the first time the country hosted the tournament. The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup was the eighth edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship contested by 24 women's national teams representing member associations of FIFA.