Analysis of Women’s International Football

Author

Blessing David

Introduction

In the course of a few years, the realm of women’s international football has experienced significant expansion and development, establishing itself as a major and powerful presence in the worldwide sporting domain. With the rising spike in popularity and tremendous funding for women’s sports, it is becoming more vital to comprehend the patterns and developments that lie among women’s international football.

The work here presents a thorough examination of women’s international football, with the objective of revealing valuable information, common trends, and notable developments that provide a deeper understanding of team results, variability, and influence across different competitive matches. Our examination aims to offer significant findings to a wide range of stakeholders and analysts, by using information retrieved from reliable sources across numerous seasons and geographies.

To start, we will provide a framework for the importance of women’s international football and clearly define the goals and extent of what we will be examining. Next, we will carefully look at team performance, tournament patterns, goal dispersion, and other crucial elements of women’s football.

Team Performance Analysis

In this section, we discuss the complex factors that affect team performance throughout all levels of women’s international football.We start a quantitative journey to find out what makes the best teams in the world successful, resilient, and competitive through analyzing an array of match results data. Through a number of carefully made graphs, we will look at Win/Loss/Draw ratios, showing the teams that have continually performed better than their opponents in addition to those that encountered difficulties and shown incredible resolve. Furthermore, we look at how goal-scoring skills have changed over time, which gives us a better understanding of how tactics and strategy changes have affected the game. This study not only honours the best teams’ accomplishments, but it also gives us a better picture of the competition by showing the trends and cycles that have impacted women’s international football.

Win/Loss/Draw Ratios For Top Teams

  • When you look at the win/loss/draw rates of the best football teams, it’s clear that their results are very different from one another. It is especially interesting to see how the United States has done. They have played 417 games, but only won 9% of them. They have also lost a lot, almost 77% of the time. This is very different from teams like Denmark, which has a win rate of over 33%, and Sweden and China PR, which both have significant win rates of about 26% and 31%, respectively. Based on these numbers, it looks like Denmark, Sweden, and China PR are better at winning games than the United States, which is unexpected considering how well-known it is in international soccer. There is also a fair amount of consistency in the number of draws between these teams, with Sweden having the highest rate of draws. This study shows an interesting thing about international soccer: playing more games doesn’t always mean winning more games. It shows how good teams like Denmark are at competing and how well well-known teams like the US sometimes perform less than expected.

Goal Difference Analysis Of Top Teams

  • A look at the goal variation among the teams shows that the United States is clearly the best. It possesses an exceptional goal difference of 961, representing a lot more than its nearest adversary, Germany, which boasts a goal difference of 699. This big lead shows how good the US is at both offence and defense, since goal difference is a key measure of the two. The huge difference of 262 goals across the US and Germany shows how good the US team is at scoring goals while also playing strong defense. Norway, Sweden, China PR, and Brazil are the next four best teams in terms of goal gaps, which range from 446 to 374. This means that the competition is getting tougher. This trend shows that these teams are more evenly matched in terms of competition, which is very different from how well the United States did. Based on the goal difference information it’s clear that this team not solely wins games easily but additionally by large margins. This makes the United States an even stronger force in international football.

Decisive Moments - Shootouts

In “Decisive Moments - Shootouts,” we look at how important penalty shootouts are in deciding the winners of big football tournament. The study of Shootout Wins and Losses and the Frequency of Shootouts Over the Years in Major Tournaments shows how important these tie-breakers are. They’re not just assessments of ability; they’re also tests of mental toughness. They can make or break a team’s reputation. This close examination is necessary because it gives us information about how to prepare tactically, how strong people’s minds are, and how football is evolving, where instances on the pitch can make or break a game.

Shootout Wins & Losses For Top and Worst Teams

  • The data on shootout wins and losses gives an interesting picture of the difference between the “top” and “worst” teams in stressful circumstances. Brazil and the US, two teams that are usually thought of as strong, are ranked as “Worst” based on their shootout results. Both countries have the same number of wins and losses or more loses than wins in shootouts.

  • Belgium and China PR, on the other hand, strike out as “Top” teams because they have won more shootouts than they have lost, which shows how well they can do when the pressure is on. Particularly, South Korea has a perfect record in shootouts, with three wins and no losses. This shows how good they are at them and maybe even how strong they are mentally in these tense match-deciding situations.

  • One important thing that can be learned from this data is that football teams that aren’t as well known can do well in shootouts. This might mean that emotional toughness and extra training for these kinds of situations are important. According to common belief, the evidence goes against the idea that teams that are ranked high or have done well in the past will automatically win in shootouts. The psychological and emotional parts of the game, which are amplified in shootouts, seem to be playing a big role in these results, suggesting that teams that haven’t done well in this area might need to pay more attention to it.

Frequency of Shootouts Over the Years in Major Tournaments

  • This histogram shows how often shootouts happened in big football events from 1995 to 2023. The number of shootouts has been going up, and the rise has been especially strong in the last few years. In the beginning, like in 1995, 2009, and 2013, there weren’t many shootouts—often just one a year. In 2019, this trend starts to change a lot, with a big jump to 6 events.

  • There have been 14 shootouts in 2022, which is a record number. This rise could mean that teams are more closely matched, which means that games end in a tie in normal and overtime. This shows that football is becoming more competitive. On the other hand, it could mean that teams’ strategies have changed so that they are better at defence, which makes games less exciting and leads to ties. It’s possible that the small drop to 5 in 2023 is a change or a return to the mean following a year that was out of the ordinary.

Goals

In this section, “Goals,” we’ll start a full look at how goals alter football matches and other instances by breaking them down into their many parts. We’ll begin by acknowledging the most notable goal scorers with. Their Goal Tally’s. Next, we’ll look at which teams score the most goals and concede the least. The timing of goals section will look at when in a game goals are most probable to be scored, showing key weak and strong points. To add some physical dimension, we’ll show a map displaying where goals are scored constantly, which shows the key points where goals come from. In the last section, home advantage, we’ll look at these circumstances to see how they affect the tactical parts of the game. The purpose of this part is to help you learn more about goal-scoring trends and how they shape football stories.

Top Goalscorers and Their Goal Tally

  • When you look at these great football players’ goal scores, it’s clear that Birgit Prinz is the best, with an amazing 24 goals. She is the best goal producer in this group because of this accomplishment, which shows how good she is at hitting the net. Heidi Mohr comes in second with an impressive 18 goals, clearly putting her among the best. Marta, on the other hand, shows how consistently world-class she is by scoring 17.

  • The fact that players like Bettina Wiegmann, Inka Grings, Abby Wambach, and Alexandra Popp all have goal sums in the mid-teens shows that they are very good at getting goals and can count on them. Particularly, Wambach’s 14 goals show how important she is to the sport, given that she is a major figure in women’s football.

  • Ann Kristin Aarønes, Carolina Morace, Lotta Schelin, Marianne Pettersen, and Michelle Akers are farther down the list. They are all tied at 12 goals, which shows how important they are to their respective teams alongside the sport as a whole. This level of ability not only shows how good each of these athletes is as an individual, but it also gives you an idea of how competitive their time was, when many players were competing to be the best goal scorer.

Top Teams and Their Goal Tally

  • From the above plot we can see with a total of 226 goals, Germany has scored the most goals of any team in the tournament. This shows that they consistently act at an outstanding level and may be because they focus their strategy on forward play. Following promptly are Sweden (151 goals), Norway (143 goals), and the United States (139 goals). All three of these teams have strong scoring plans, but Germany’s score is clearly the best.

  • Middle-level teams like England, France, Brazil, and Italy have strong but not very high goal-scoring records, running from 115 to 61 goals. The close numbers for Denmark, China PR, Japan, and the Netherlands, all in the low 50s, show that these nations are about equally good at competing, all of them having important goal-scoring moments on the world stage.

  • Australia, Spain, and Canada are near the bottom of the list with fewer goals scored. This could mean that they play a more defensive style of football or that their football programmes are rebuilding and developing.

Timing of Goals (Which Minutes Are Most Common?)

  • There is an interesting pattern in the spread of the most prevalent minutes for goals scored that matches up with important parts of a football game. For example, the most goals are scored in the 90th and 86th minutes, which are the final moments of the match. This includes penalty time, when defences are tired and teams push forward to score a winning or tieing goal. Another time when a lot of goals happen is in the 45th minute, which is towards the end of the first half. This could be because of a last-ditch effort to win before the half-time break or a loss of focus as the break gets closer. There are a lot of goals in the middle minutes of the game, like the 35th, 29th, and 28th minutes. This could be because that’s when teams are getting used to the game and using their tactics to their advantage.

  • Other big jumps in the 49th and 54th minutes point to a good start to the second half, when teams tend to come out with new strategies or more energy. In the same way, the minutes in the early 50s, the 62nd minute, and the 79th and 80th minute show times when people worked harder to either take the lead or make a return.

Goals Scored by Country

  • The boldest colours on the world map show the teams with the most goals. Germany is clearly the most powerful team, as their vibrant blue colour shows, having scored an amazing 231 goals. This vibrant hue is a sign of how many goals they’ve scored around the world. Sweden and Norway, which are also much darker than most countries, have scored 157 and 151 goals, each, showing how strong their offence is. The United States is also marked with a much darker colour, which shows how important their 142 goals have been to define the competitive world of football. Even though England’s shade on the map isn’t as dark as Germany’s, it still shows that they are a well-scoring country (118 goals). The softer but still recognisable colours for Brazil and Italy, which have 71 and 61 goals, show how important they are to the sport.

Home vs. Away Advantage

  • The way that home advantage data are shown visually makes the difference between the number of home wins and draws and the percentages that go with them stand out. The substantial size of the purple “Home Wins” circle shows that teams have won a lot of games on their home ground. This shows that teams have a much better chance of winning when they play in their own field. This may be because they are more comfortable there, the crowd is cheering them on, or there are other mental advantages.

  • The “Draws” circle is much smaller and is coloured green. This means that as a team plays at home, the game is much less probable to end in a tie. This could mean that the home teams are more active or good at what they do, which leads to clear wins instead of ties.

  • On top of that, the green “Home Win Percentage” circle, which overlaps both “Home Wins” and “Draws,” clearly shows the very high chance of a home team winning. This overlap could mean that even though home teams usually win, there is a good chance that the game will end in a tie, which shows how unpredictable and competitive it is.

  • Even though the “Draw Percentage,” shown by a small pink circle, is the least likely result, it is an important part of the sport because it shows that even if one team has home field advantage, a draw is still plausible. This shows how random football games are.

  • In short, the plot shows the idea of “home advantage” in football. When teams play at home, they are more probable to win rather than to tie or lose, which is something that coaches and teams frequently employ to their advantage through the season.

Conclusion

The stacked bar chart shows the yearly highest win numbers for different countries, with the United States being the most dominant. England’s win rate has been steady, while Germany and Sweden have stable win numbers. Brazil, Denmark, and Norway have some variation, but not as much as the US or England. The United States has an exceptional goal difference of 961, showing its strength in offence and defence. The top four teams in terms of goal gaps are Norway, Sweden, China PR, and Brazil. The data on shootout wins and losses reveals the difference between “top” and “worst” teams in stressful situations.

The histogram shows the increasing frequency of shootouts in major football events from 1995 to 2023. The rise in shootouts suggests a more competitive atmosphere, but also suggests that teams’ strategies have shifted towards defence. The top goal scorers are Birgit Prinz, Heidi Mohr, and Marta, while players like Bettina Wiegmann, Inka Grings, Abby Wambach, and Alexandra Popp are among the best. Germany has the most goals, followed by Sweden, Norway, and the United States. Middle-level teams like England, France, Brazil, and Italy have strong but not very high goals. Australia, Spain, and Canada are near the bottom, possibly due to a defensive style or rebuilding programs.

The boldest colours on the world map represent the teams with the most goals, with Germany being the most powerful with 231 goals. Sweden, Norway, and the United States are marked with darker colours, indicating their strong offense. England’s shade is not as dark as Germany’s, but still shows their well-scoring status. Brazil and Italy have 71 and 61 goals, demonstrating their importance to the sport.

Chart 10 shows the home vs. away advantage (circular packing) in football. The purple “Home Wins” circle indicates that teams have won many games on their home ground, while the green “Draws” circle indicates that the game is less likely to end in a tie. The green “Home Win Percentage” circle highlights the high chance of a home team winning, while the pink “Draw Percentage” shows that even if one team has a home field advantage, a draw is still plausible, highlighting the unpredictable nature of football games.