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This article is about the English national women’s football team at the Women’s World Cup 2015 in Canada. England took part in the final round for the fourth time, survived the first knockout round for the first time and was third and best European team for the first time through the first victory against Germany.

Qualification
England met Montenegro, which participated for the first time in the European Qualification Group 6, Turkey, Ukraine, Wales and Belarus. The English eleven won all games and qualified confidently for the world championship. Only in the third last game, the team had to accept the only goal in Ukraine after a 2-0 lead, but could win the game and thus achieve a preliminary decision. With 4-0 in the penultimate match against Wales, England qualified as the second European team for the World Cup. Ukraine failed in the playoff games of the best group runners to Italy, which could not qualify either.

In total, coach Brent Hills, who took office for four games after the failed 2013 European Championship, and Mark Sampson used 28 players, including four goalkeepers. Only Eniola Aluko and record international Fara Williams, who played at the match in Ukraine on the 19th. June 2014 set the record of Rachel Yankey, were used in all ten games. There were nine bets Lucy Bronze, and Alex Scott and Jill Scott, but they were often only replaced. The best scorer was Eniola Aluko with 13 goals. She was the second best scorer in Europe together with the Scottish Jane Ross and the French Gaëtane Thiney and was surpassed only by the 18-year-old Dutch Vivianne Miedema and the Jamaican Shakira Duncan, who both scored 16 goals. Toni Duggan scored nine goals, Karen Carney scored seven goals and Natasha Dowie scored five goals.

Preparation
The Englishwomen began, after the successful qualification was determined, but even before all the qualifiers were completed, with the preparation with a test match on August 3, 2014 in Hartlepool against Sweden, which they won 4-0. After completing the qualifying matches, they contested on 23. November 2014 for the first time a game at Wembley Stadium, which they lost in front of the record set of 45.619 spectators against European champion Germany with 0:3. On 13 February 2015, a test match against the USA took place in Milton Keynes, which was lost 0-1. In March, the team again took part in the traditional Cyprus Cup, meeting Finland (3:1) and the World Cup participants Australia (3:0 on 6 March) and the Netherlands (1:1 on 9 March). In the final on March 11, the English women met World Cup hosts and record winner Canada and pulled by a 1-0 with the Canadians in the number of titles equal. A pre-World Cup test match against France was planned in December