The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup started on June 7 and went on for a month. Teams from 24 countries met in stadiums (体育场）across France to decide which country had the best women's football team in the world.
It was the eighth FIFA Women's World Cup. The first of it was in 1991 and then it is held every four years. The 24 countries were in six different groups.
People's interest in the Women's World Cup this year was even higher. Over 720,000 tickets were sold. Tickets for the opening game between France and South Korea were sold out in less than two days. Hundreds of millions of people watched the game on TV and on the Internet.
The winning World Cup team got $4 million. The team getting second place got $2.6 million. Teams that didn't do so well got less money.
In all, the women's teams could get $30 million. Though it was twice as much prize money as that in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup，it was still not much, if you compare it with the $400 million given to the 32 teams in last year's Men1 s World Cup.
Norway's Ada Hegerberg (some people believed she was the world's best woman player) didn't even show up at the World Cup. Norway was the first country to give men and women football players the same money, but Ms. Hegerberg didn't think that Norway did well, so she didn't play on the national team.
