Jul 13, 2024; Harrison, New Jersey, USA; Members of the 1999 US Ladies’s World Cup crew are honored throughout a pregame ceremony earlier than the match between the US and Mexico at Purple Bull Enviornment. Obligatory Credit score: Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Pictures The USA is anticipated to host the 2031 FIFA Ladies’s World Cup in a joint effort with Mexico, Jamaica and Costa Rica.
The presidents of the 4 nations’ soccer federations revealed the main points of their bid plans at a press convention Monday in New York.
The joint bid is uncontested, leaving little doubt that FIFA will transfer ahead with the plan. Soccer’s world governing physique is scheduled to carry its FIFA Congress in Vancouver subsequent April and is anticipated to ratify the bid then.
4 nations sharing internet hosting duties for a World Cup is unprecedented, however the 2031 version will mark the primary ladies’s event to function 48 groups, expanded from 32.
It follows the U.S., Mexico and Canada internet hosting the boys’s event in 2026.
“We’re extremely proud to be main this bid for the 2031 Ladies’s World Cup alongside our Concacaf companions in Mexico, Costa Rica, and Jamaica,” U.S. Soccer president Cindy Parlow Cone stated in a press release. “Collectively, we now have a unprecedented alternative to host the most important and most impactful Ladies’s World Cup in historical past, one that can encourage a brand new era of followers and assist develop the ladies’s recreation throughout our complete area and all over the world. We’re excited to drive lasting progress for ladies’s soccer by making a legacy that reaches far past 2031 and units a brand new international commonplace for the game.”
The U.S., which hosted the 1999 and 2003 Ladies’s World Cups, is in line to turn into the primary nation to host the occasion thrice.
Costa Rica and Jamaica have by no means hosted a World Cup. Mexico is making ready to stage males’s World Cup matches for the third time (following 1970 and 1986), however 2031 could be the nation’s first time holding a Ladies’s World Cup.
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