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The FIFA Women's Jules Rimet Cup or the Women's Rimet Cup is a proposed international association football competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship is for teams that fail to qualify for the respective year's Women's World Cup. The championship has been awarded every four years since the inaugural tournament in 2003.
The current format of the competition involves a qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, to determine which teams qualify for the tournament phase, which is often called the Rimet Cup Finals. 32 teams, including the automatically qualifying host nation(s), compete in the tournament phase for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over a period of about a month.
The tournament is named in honor of the late FIFA president, Jules Rimet.
Format
[edit]32 teams qualify for the competition, which is allocated to the 31 best clubs in each confederation not to qualify for the FIFA World Cup. The teams are divided into eight groups of four, with the top two teams in each group advancing to the first round of the knockout stage. The eight winners meet the eight third place finishers of the FIFA World Cup group stage in the second round. Winners advance in a single-elimination format to the final.
Past winners
[edit]| Year | Hosts | Winners | Score | Runners-up | Third Place | Score | Fourth Place | Number of Teams | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 Details |
 United Kingdom
|
16 | |||||||||
| 2007 Details |
 South Korea
|
24 | |||||||||
| 2011 Details |
 Morocco
|
24 | |||||||||
| 2015 Details |
 Czech Republic
|
32 | |||||||||
| 2019 Details |
 Mexico
|
32 |