China News Service, December 19th. On December 18th, Beijing time, FIFA officially released the 2020 women's football year-end rankings. The American women's football team is still ranked first, and the Chinese women's football team is ranked 15th in the world and third in Asia.
On February 13, the final match of Group B of the Tokyo Olympic Women's Asian Qualifiers was held in Sydney, Australia. The Chinese women drew with the Australian team 1:1 and ranked second in the Olympic preliminaries.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Tao Shelan
Due to the epidemic, the Chinese women's football team only held three Tokyo Olympic qualifiers in February this year. The results were a 6-1 defeat of the Thai women's football team, a 5:0 victory over the Chinese Taipei women's football team, and a 1:1 draw with the Australian women's football team.
With this year's undefeated record, the Chinese women's football team scored 1867 points at the end of the year, ranking 15th in the world, ranking 3rd in Asia, behind Australia, which is 7th, and Japan, which is 10th.
South Korea’s women’s football ranks 18th in the world and fourth in Asia.
It is worth mentioning that this is also the Chinese women's football team ranked 15th in the world for the third consecutive year since 2018.
The two-round home and away Olympic qualification play-offs that were supposed to be played against the Korean women's football this year have been postponed to next year.
The winner of the two rounds of competition will advance to the Tokyo Olympic finals.
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