FIFA unveiled its plans for a brand new annual girls’s competitors, the 2028 Ladies’s Membership World Cup, and the bid course of for the 2031 and 2035 Ladies’s World Cup tournaments, on Wednesday. The bulletins, made by FIFA council of their annual report, are a major step ahead within the world improvement of ladies’s soccer.
Among the many most notable developments is the affirmation the formal bids to host the 2031 and 2035 Ladies’s World Cup are narrowed to particular areas. The 2031 hosts shall be decided from nations in CAF (Africa) or the Concacaf areas, whereas 2035 hosts shall be pulled from CAF or UEFA (Europe). A four-nation bid (England, Northern Eire, Scotland and Wales) from the UK has already acknowledged their intent to bid for 2035.
In 2024, U.S. Soccer and Mexico introduced a joint however to host in 2027, however finally pulled the bid to focus planning on 2031. After Wednesday’s announcement, U.S. Soccer posted on social their intent and pleasure to place forth their bid for the 2031 match, however any point out of Mexico was notably absent and the Mexico Soccer Federation has not put out any statements on future World Cup.
“U.S Soccer, in partnership with Concacaf and its members, will full the bid course of to host the 2031 FIFA Ladies’s World Cup,” the U.S. Soccer assertion mentioned. “We’re excited by the chance to welcome groups and followers, encourage the subsequent era and develop the sport regionally and globally.”
Sources conversant in the FIFA bid course of have confirmed to CBS Sports activities that there’s nonetheless curiosity in a joint bid although not as pressing as when the 2027 bid initially launched because of the native organizing committee’s present consideration on the upcoming 2026 FIFA Males’s World Cup.
The 2026 match shall be a showcase of the Concacaf area, hosted by the US, Canada, and Mexico soccer federations. The competitors will return to a summer time format after a shift to a winter calendar for the December 2022 World Cup came about in Qatar. The US beforehand hosted the Ladies’s World Cup in 1999 and 2003, whereas Mexico has but to host the occasion.
The earlier World Cups in the US set new requirements for attendance, viewership, and business success. The 1999 match, famously held on the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, was a watershed second for ladies’s soccer, drawing a record-breaking crowd of over 90,000 followers for the ultimate and cementing the U.S. girls’s nationwide group’s standing as a world powerhouse.
U.S. Soccer President Cindy Parlow Cone has been a vocal advocate for the bid, stating that internet hosting the match would supply a possibility to “encourage the subsequent era of feminine athletes and proceed the momentum we have in-built girls’s soccer.” USSF’s bid for the 2031 match is predicted to emphasise its present infrastructure, state-of-the-art stadiums, transportation networks, and passionate fan base.
Whereas no bid has formally been submitted but, U.S. Soccer has emerged as a frontrunner within the race to host ever since their intent to bid for 2027. The build-up to the 2031 World Cup, will solely present extra ample planning for a large-scale occasion. The host nation for the 2031 Ladies’s World Cup is scheduled to be determined by the 76th FIFA Congress in 2026.
