Canada Soccer’s Women’s National Team to Travel to Australia during September’s International Window

Canada Soccer’s Women’s National Team will travel to Australia during the September FIFA international window for a double-header against the co-hosts of the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia and New Zealand 2023. The first match will be played on Saturday 3 September (location tbc) while the second match will be played at Allianz Stadium on Tuesday 6 September 2022. This will be the first time in 14 years Canada faces the Matildas in Australia. 

Kickoff times and broadcast details will be announced ahead of the competition. Tickets for the Allianz Stadium match will go on sale to the public via http://www.ticketek.com.au on Wednesday 29 June 2022 at 13.00 local time (23.00 ET / 20.00 PT). In advance of the public sale, members with a Football Account will have pre-sale access to purchase tickets on Thursday 23 June 2022 at 14.00 local time (+00.00 ET / 21.00 PT). More information about the second match will be shared ahead of the competition.

Coming up this month, Canada Soccer’s Women’s National Team will face Korea Republic in a Women’s International Friendly match. The Sunday 26 June match at BMO Field in Toronto, Ontario will help Canada prepare for the upcoming Concacaf W Championship which doubles as both the qualification route for the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023 as well as the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The Concacaf W Championship’s Group Stage will see Canada face Trinidad and Tobago on 5 July, Panama on 8 July, and Costa Rica on 11 July.

The FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023™, which will be held from 20 July 2023 to 20 August 2023, will see 30 nations join the hosts Australia and New Zealand who have already qualified for the biggest tournament in the world. The FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 will be a tournament of firsts. In 2023, fans will see 32 nations playing 64 matches across nine host cities in Australia and New Zealand for the first time in Women’s World Cup history.
 
CANADA SOCCER’S WOMEN’S NATIONAL TEAM
 
Canada are Olympic champions (Tokyo 2020), two-time bronze medal winners (2012 and 2016), and two-time Concacaf champions (1998 and 2010). In all, Canada have participated in seven consecutive editions of the FIFA Women’s World Cup™ (1995 to 2019) and four consecutive editions of the Women’s Olympic Football Tournament (2008 to 2021). At Tokyo 2020, Canada Soccer’s Women’s National Team became the first Canadian team to win three consecutive medals at the Summer Olympic Games and just the third nation in the world to win three medals in women’s soccer.
 
Canada Soccer’s Women’s National Youth Teams, meanwhile, have won four Concacaf youth titles: the 2004 and 2008 Concacaf Women’s Under-20 Championship, the 2010 Concacaf Women’s Under-17 Championship, and the 2014 Concacaf Girls’ Under-15 Championship. Canada have qualified for eight editions of the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup (including a silver medal at Canada 2002) and all seven editions of the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup (including a fourth-place finish at Uruguay 2018).