1999 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification qualifier. Brazil won the tournament. The runners-up of CONMEBOL's and CONCACAF's qualifications played for one berth. 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification The qualification process for the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup saw 67 teams from the six FIFA confederations compete for the 16 places in the tournament's finals. The places were divided as follows: The two African teams to qualify to the World Cup were the two finalists of the 1998 CAF Women's Championship, Nigeria and Ghana. The three Asian teams to qualify to the World Cup were the two finalists and the third-placed of the 1997 AFC Women's
1998 FIFA World Cup Final Korea in 2002. Ronaldo went on to set the record for goals in World Cups, which was later broken by Miroslav Klose of Germany in the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Blanc and Deschamps both later had spells as manager of the France national team, with Deschamps leading them to a second World Cup title almost exactly 20 years later in the 2018 World Cup in Russia, making him only the third man to have won the World Cup as both player and manager after Zagallo and Germany's Franz Beckenbauer. Many of the French players who won the 1998 World Cup