Steffi Jones, President of the Organising Committee of the FIFA Women's World Cup 2011™, speaking on Tuesday in the build-up to Wednesday's women's international between Germany and China PR, was full of praise for the choice of Bielefeld as venue for the final of the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup 2010.

"Bielefeld fulfils the conditions to be a wonderful host venue for the U-20 Women's World Cup," said Jones as the German women completed their final training session in the Bielefeld Arena. "The tournament is an important event and one which played to full houses and created an incredible atmosphere most recently in Chile. What was possible in South America should also be the case in a country like Germany where women's football already enjoys a healthy status. Our U-20 World Cup will be a real highlight in the footballing calendar."

The fifth FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup will get under way on either 13 or 14 July 2010 in Bochum while the final is scheduled to be held on 1 August in Bielefeld (with these dates still to be ratified by the FIFA Executive Committee). The other matchday venues are Dresden and Augsburg and 16 teams, including hosts Germany and members of all six FIFA confederations, will be taking part. Germany finished third at the recent FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in Chile, reached the quarter-finals at Russia 2006 and won the title at Thailand 2004.

"The four venues for the U-20 Women's World Cup have a number of exciting matches to look forward to," the OC head continued. "Plenty of the players involved will be looking to secure their spots in their respective World Cup 2011 squads, and what is more, we will have the chance in Augsburg, Dresden and Bochum to make sure that the matches meet all the FIFA criteria a year before the senior Women's World Cup."

This is also one of the reasons why the "World Cup 2011 Stadiums working group" is convening their second meeting on Wednesday ahead of the international match. The primary aims of this working group are to establish the technical and organisational standards required for the tournament based on the considerable experience of all those involved and, of course, the conditions laid out in the FIFA specifications sheet. Representatives of all nine FIFA Women's World Cup stadiums held their statutory meeting back in December in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin.