What to know for the Women's World Cup

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Here are a few things to know as women’s soccer’s most prestigious event gets set to open Thursday in Australia and New Zealand:

It’s bigger than ever.

What started as a 12-team tournament in 1991 before expanding to 16 teams in 1999 and 24 in 2015 has now grown to 32. They’ve been divided into eight groups of four for round-robin play. The top two in each group advance to the knockout stage, starting Aug. 5. The final