Canadian women to face Swiss team

TORON TO • Canada will meet Switzerland in the round of 16 at the Women’s World Cup.

A tournament off icial confirmed the matchup Wednesday, the last day of pool play at the 24-country tournament.

As Group A winner, Canada meets the third-place finisher from Group C, D, or E on Sunday at B.C. Place Stadium.

That makes for 15 permutations but with the Netherlands, in Group A, and Switzerland, in Group C, guaranteed to be two of the four third-place finishers moving on, that reduces the number of permutations to six.

And in every one of those cases, Canada faces Switzer - land.

The Swiss (12-0) are ranked 19 th in the world, com- A 15-year-old teen has been charged with mischief for allegedly running onto the field during a Women’s World Cup match in Winnipeg. Winnipeg police say it happened Tuesday during the match between German and Thailand. The male teen is from Dufresne, Man. and has been released on a promise to appear. Police say Winnipeg pared to No. 8 for Canada (10-2).

The Canadian women have played Switzerland four times, with three victories and one draw. Their last meeting was a 2-0 Canada win at the 2013 Cyprus Cup.

It’s Switzerland’s first trip to the World Cup. Coach Martina Voss-Teckleburg’s team lost 1-0 to Japan and 2-1 to Cameroon but thumped Ecuador 10-1.

The Canada-Switzerland winner will meet England or Norway in the quarter-finals.

The Dutch (four points, zero goal differential) and Swiss (three points, plus-seven) are guaranteed of going through because their numbers are better than the thirdplace finishers in Group B (Thailand, three points, minus-seven) and Group D (Sweden, three points, zero). The top four thirdplace finishers from the six groups advance to the round 16, along with the group winners and runners-up.

The 2015 tourna - ment, expandedto24 teams from 16, marks only the second t ime tha t Can - ad a has advanced out of the group stage in six tries. The only other time was in 2003 when Canada finished fourth after losing 2-1 to Sweden in the semifinals and 3-1 to the U.S. in the thirdplace game. hosted seven matches of the world cup since June 8, with more than 85,000 fans from around the world turning out to support their favourite teams. They say the alleged mischief was the only incident in all the matches. Dufresne is about 40 kilometres southeast of Winnipeg.