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This article is about the Canadian National Women’s Football Team at the Women’s World Cup 2015 in Canada. Canada took part in the final for the sixth time – only in the first event the team was not qualified. As a host, Canada did not have to qualify for the finals.

Preparation
Canada began preparation for the World Cup in the summer of 2014 with several test matches, of which only one was won:
May 8, 2014 in Winnipeg against the USA: 1:1 (1:0)
18 June 2014 in Vancouver against European champion Germany: 1:2 (0:1)
25 and 28 October 2014 in Edmonton and Vancouver respectively against World and Asian champions Japan: 0:3 (0:1) and 2:3 (0:1)
24 and 26 November 2014 in Los Angeles against Sweden: 1:0 (1:0) and 1:1 (0:0)

In the test games, John Herdman used a total of 27 players. Of these, Josée Bélanger, Kadeisha Buchanan, Jonelle Filigno, Jessie Fleming, Sophie Schmidt, Desiree Scott and Christine Sinclair were used in all games, but only Buchanan and Sinclair over the full season. Janine Beckie (November 26, 2014) and Allysha Chapman (October 25, 2014) came in the test matches to their first A-country matches.

In January 2015, Canada won the four-nation tournament with three other World Cup participants in Shenzhen (People's Republic of China):
January 11 against South Korea 2:1
13 January against Mexico 2:1
15 January against China 2:1

In March 2015, the team took part in the traditional Cyprus Cup, where it is the record winner, meeting with World Cup participants South Korea (1-0 on 6 March) as well as the teams from Italy (1-0 on 9 March) and Scotland (2-0 on 4 March) who failed in the European playoff games. As a group winner, Canada then met England in the final on 11 March and lost 0-1, with which both have now won the Cyprus Cup three times. However, Canada was not invited to the parallel and higher-occupied Algarve Cup 2015 despite the hope of an invitation. On 9 April, a test match against World Cup participants France was lost in Bondoufle with 0:1 and on 29. In May, a test match in Hamilton against England was won 1-0.

The team shall:

Order
The squad of 23 players (including three goalkeepers), who must be notified to the FIFA General Secretariat no later than ten working days before the opening match, was appointed on 27 April 2015.

Games at the World Cup

Already when determining the venues and days, Canada was set as group head of Group A. At draws on 6. In December 2014, China, New Zealand and the Netherlands were drawn. According to the rankings in the FIFA world rankings before the World Cup, this is the most balanced group: the Canadians are in number 8, the Netherlands in number 12, China in number 16 and New Zealand in number 17; Group cut = 13.25.

Against China there were 25 games, of which six were won, five draws ended (with a victory in the