The anticipated bid by the United States and Mexico to co-host the 2031 Women’s World Cup can face solely a rival bid from Africa, with FIFA on Wednesday excluding Europe from the competition.
FIFA additionally invited bids for the 2035 match solely from Europe or Africa, and the 4 British federations — England, Scotland, Northern Eire and Wales — stated they might enter the competition.
FIFA stated it anticipated to choose hosts for each tournaments at its annual congress subsequent 12 months, prone to be held on the eve of the boys’s 2026 World Cup being co-hosted by the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
The U.S. and Mexico bid has been favored to win 2031 Girls’s World Cup internet hosting rights since final 12 months, when the 2 federations pulled out of bidding for the 2027 version. That match might be performed in Brazil, which beat a European co-hosting bid from Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.
The North American soccer physique CONCACAF is due its flip to host one other Girls’s World Cup forward of European physique UEFA.
Canada hosted the 2015 match and France hosted the 2019 version. The U.S. hosted the Girls’s World Cup in 1999 and 2003. Australia and New Zealand co-hosted in 2023.
No African nation has hosted a Girls’s World Cup, with the inaugural version in 1991. South Africa’s bid within the 2027 contest was withdrawn months earlier than attending to the vote.
2035 bid
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer backed a 2035 bid.
“Soccer is and at all times might be on the core of our nation’s identification,” he stated. “The FIFA Girls’s World Cup 2035 on dwelling turf can be one other monumental second in our sporting historical past, driving development and leaving a long-lasting legacy.”
The Soccer Associations of England, Scotland, Northern Eire and Wales will submit a declaration of curiosity to FIFA within the first quarter of this 12 months.
England hosted the Girls’s European Championship in 2022 and, in a joint bid with Eire, Scotland and Wales, will stage the boys’s Euros in 2028.
Reporting by The Related Press.
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