Japan v Canada

Japan v Canada

ESPN FC Women's Rank: Top 50 soccer players of 2025

Spain widen lead over USWNT in FIFA women's rankings

How the U23s can boost USWNT options for World Cup 2027

ESPN FC Women's Rank: Top 50 soccer players of 2025

Spain widen lead over USWNT in FIFA women's rankings

How the U23s can boost USWNT options for World Cup 2027

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Game Information

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FIFA Women's World Cup Standings

FIFA Women's World Cup News

Women's World Cup 2003, Group Stage 2003

JapanJapanJPN

WWLDL, 3 PTS

CanadaCanada CAN

LLLLL, 6 PTS

Homare Sawa - 20'

Christine Latham - 36'

Christine Sinclair - 49'

Kara Lang - 72'

No.Name
1Nozomi Yamago
2Yumi Obe
3Hiromi Isozaki
4Yasuyo Yamagishi 20Aya Miyama
5Tomoe Sakai 17Miyuki Yanagita
6Yayoi Kobayashi 9Eriko Arakawa
7Naoko Kawakami
8Tomomi Miyamoto
16Emi Yamamoto
10Homare Sawa
11Mio Otani

Substitutes
17Miyuki Yanagita
20Aya Miyama
9Eriko Arakawa

Gillette Stadium

8:30 PM, 27 September 2003

Boston, USA

Japan

Canada

Here are the 50 best women's soccer players in the world for 2025, as ranked by an expert panel of coaches, GMs and journalists.

Women's World Cup champion Spain widened their points lead atop the FIFA rankings Thursday over the second-placed United States.

Emma Hayes has revitalized the U.S. U23 pathway and a win over England showed how it will help her options ahead of the 2027 World Cup.

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