All ready: the groups of the Junior Women’s World Cup in Santiago 2025
This Thursday, June 12, The groups of the Women’s World Cup “Santiago 2025” were raffled. It will be the second consecutive edition of the tournament in Santiago, Chile, the capital of Chile (the previous one was in 2023). The contest will be played from December 1 to 13 At the Claudia Schüler training and competition center of the National Stadium Park (Santiago de Chile), and it will be the first time that it has 24 selections, since the past editions had 16.
The contest was divided into six groups of four selections and the first two will advance to the next round of each of the groups. With the Netherlands, Argentina, Germany, England, Australia and the United States as standard heads, according to the FIH world ranking, Thus each were made up of:
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Group A: Netherlands, Japan, Chile (local) and Malaysia.
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Group B: Argentina, Belgium, Zimbabue and Wales.
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Group C: Germany, India, Ireland and Namibia.
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Group D: England, South Africa, China and Austria.
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Group E: Australia, Spain, Canada and Scotland.
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Group F: United States, South Korea, New Zealand and Uruguay.
Netherlands will seek to defend its title for the second consecutive contestthe last one obtained in Santiago 2023 against Argentina. In regular time they tied 2 to 2 and then stayed with the title in the Shoot-outs for 4 to 1. Las Leoncitas, on the other hand, will go for a new final and for staying this time with the trophy, which would be the third for Argentina in history (In Terrasa 1993 and Santiago 2016 so far the only two titles of the Albiceleste in the female branch).
