El equipo femenino quiere ganar el campeonato.

Because equipo is a masculine noun in Spanish. Grammatical gender depends on the noun itself, not on the real-life sex of the people involved.

So:

• el equipo = the team
• femenino just describes what kind of team it is: a women’s/female team

This is very common in Spanish:

• la persona masculina would still use la, because persona is feminine
• el grupo femenino uses el, because grupo is masculine

Because adjectives in Spanish usually agree with the noun they describe, not with the people being referred to.

Here, femenino describes equipo, and equipo is masculine singular, so the adjective must also be masculine singular:

• el equipo femenino

If the noun were feminine, the adjective would change:

• la selección femenina

In this context, it normally means women’s team.

In sports, Spanish often uses:

• equipo masculino = men’s team
• equipo femenino = women’s team

So although femenino literally looks like feminine/female, the natural meaning here is the team made up of women.

Because in Spanish, after verbs like querer, the next verb usually goes directly in the infinitive, with no extra word in between.

So:

• quiere ganar = wants to win
• quiere comer = wants to eat
• quiere estudiar = wants to study

English needs to, but Spanish does not.

Because the subject is el equipo, which is singular.

Even though a team contains many people, Spanish treats equipo as one unit grammatically:

• el equipo quiere = the team wants

If the subject were plural, then you would use quieren:

• los equipos quieren = the teams want

Quiere is the third-person singular present tense form of querer.

It can mean:

• he/she wants
• it wants
• you want (formal usted)

In this sentence it means:

• the team wants

Full present-tense forms of querer:

• yo quiero
• tú quieres
• él/ella/usted quiere
• nosotros/nosotras queremos
• vosotros/vosotras queréis
• ellos/ellas/ustedes quieren

Because querer is a stem-changing verb in the present tense.

Its stem changes from e to ie in most forms:

• quiero
• quieres
• quiere
• queremos
• queréis
• quieren

So quiere is irregular in the stem, but this is a normal pattern for many common Spanish verbs.

Normally, Spanish needs the definite article here: el campeonato.

That is because it is referring to the championship, a specific competition that both speaker and listener can identify from context.

So:

• ganar el campeonato = to win the championship

Without the article, ganar campeonato sounds unnatural in standard Spanish.

Not exactly. They are related, but not identical.

• campeonato = championship
• torneo = tournament
• liga = league

In real sports contexts, the exact word depends on the competition format. But in many learner contexts, campeonato is the general word for a championship competition.

Because in Spanish, descriptive adjectives usually come after the noun.

So the normal order is:

• el equipo femenino

Putting the adjective before the noun is much less common and often changes the tone or meaning. For ordinary classification, Spanish strongly prefers:

• noun + adjective

Yes, you could, and it would be understandable. But el equipo femenino is very natural, especially in sports language.

Compare:

• el equipo femenino = the women’s team / female team
• el equipo de mujeres = the team of women

The first one sounds more like the standard label you might see in sports, schedules, or news.

A simple Spain Spanish approximation is:

• quiere ≈ KYEH-reh
• ganar ≈ gah-NAR
• el ≈ el
• campeonato ≈ kam-peh-oh-NA-toh

A fuller pronunciation of the whole sentence would be roughly:

el eh-KEE-poh feh-meh-NEE-noh KYEH-reh gah-NAR el kam-peh-oh-NA-toh

In Spain Spanish:

• qu before i/e sounds like k
• g before a is a hard g
• stress falls naturally on quie-re, ga-nar, cam-pe-o-na-to

Not directly. Quiere ganar specifically means wants to win.

If you want to say is trying to win, Spanish would more naturally use:

• intenta ganar
• está intentando ganar
• trata de ganar

So querer expresses desire or intention, not necessarily the act of trying.

Not naturally. In sports, ganar is the standard verb here, and it means to win.

So:

• ganar el campeonato = win the championship

Using earn in English would sound less direct, and in Spanish you would still normally say ganar, not a verb meaning earn.

The plural would be:

Los equipos femeninos quieren ganar el campeonato.

Changes:

• el → los
• equipo → equipos
• femenino → femeninos
• quiere → quieren

Everything agrees with the new plural noun.