US-Mexico joint bid for 2031 Ladies’s World Cup will get massive enhance as FIFA blocks Europe till 2035
The anticipated bid by the United States and Mexico to co-host the 2031 Ladies’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’d enter the competition.
FIFA stated it anticipated to select hosts for each tournaments at its annual congress subsequent yr, 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 Ladies’s World Cup internet hosting rights since final yr, when the 2 federations pulled out of bidding for the 2027 version. That match can 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 Ladies’s World Cup forward of European physique UEFA.
Canada hosted the 2015 match and France hosted the 2019 version. The U.S. hosted the Ladies’s World Cup in 1999 and 2003. Australia and New Zealand co-hosted in 2023.
No African nation has hosted a Ladies’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 South Africa’s bid within the 2027 contest was withdrawn months earlier than attending to the vote.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 all the time can be on the core of our nation’s identification,” he stated. “The FIFA Ladies’s World Cup 2035 on residence turf can be one other monumental second in our sporting historical past, driving progress and leaving an enduring 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 yr.
England hosted the Ladies’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.
Need nice tales delivered proper to your inbox? Create or log in to your FOX Sports activities account, observe leagues, groups and gamers to obtain a personalised e-newsletter every day!
FIFA Ladies’s World Cup
Get extra from FIFA Ladies’s World Cup Observe your favorites to get details about video games, information and extra
