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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

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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

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Year Hosts Winners Score Runners-up Third Place Score Fourth Place Number of Teams
2003
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 United Kingdom 16
2007
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 South Korea 24
2011
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 Morocco 24
2015
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 Czech Republic 32
2019
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 Mexico 32