Women’s World Cup 2027
Brazil · 24 June – 25 July 2027
Thirty-two teams, 64 matches, eight host cities — and, unusually, one clock for the entire tournament. Every venue sits at UTC−3 and Brazil keeps no daylight saving, so a single piece of mental arithmetic covers the whole competition.
Kickoff times are not yet published. Dates, venues and the full knockout bracket are confirmed — times follow, and every match converts to your local time the moment they land.
Key dates
- Group stage
Thu 24 Jun – Thu 8 Jul - Round of 16
Sat 10 – Tue 13 Jul - Quarter-finals
Fri 16 – Sat 17 Jul - Semi-finals
Tue 20 – Wed 21 Jul - Third place
Sat 24 Jul · Arena Itaquera - Final
Sun 25 Jul · Maracanã
How it opens
Hosts Brazil play the opening match at the Maracanã. Both it and the final are at the same ground, four weeks apart.
One tournament, one clock
Every one of the eight host cities sits at UTC−3, and Brazil no longer observes daylight saving time, so that offset holds for the whole tournament. That makes 2027 structurally different from 2026, which spread across four time zones from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific — where the same round could air in the morning in one venue and after midnight in another.
In practice it means one piece of mental arithmetic covers the entire tournament. Once kickoff times are published, a 17:00 kickoff in Brazil will read as 21:00 in London, 22:00 in Berlin, 16:00 in New York and 05:00 the next morning in Tokyo and Seoul.
Format
Thirty-two teams are drawn into eight groups of four. The top two from each group reach the round of 16, and the tournament runs as a straight knockout from there. That is 64 matches in total — the same format the Women’s World Cup used in 2023.
Three of the 32 places are still open. They will be decided by the play-off tournament, which runs in two phases between November 2026 and March 2027.
What we’ll publish next
The fixture list is out, but kickoff times are not, and the group draw has not been held — so the matches carry placeholders rather than teams. When both land, every match will be converted to your local time with the same watchability colour coding this site used for 2026, and the calendars and printable schedules will follow.
The full match schedule is published: all 64 fixtures with dates and venues. Also: the eight host cities, the final, and the group draw.
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