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The U.S. Soccer Federation and its Mexican counterpart dropped their joint bid to host the 2027 Women’s World Cup on April 29 and mentioned they as an alternative will give attention to making an attempt to host the 2031 event.
The resolution left a proposal from Brazil and a joint Germany-Netherlands-Belgium plan competing to be picked for 2027 by the FIFA Congress that meets May 17 in Bangkok.
The USSF mentioned the 2031 bid will name for FIFA to make investments equally within the males’s and girls’s World Cups.
FIFA mentioned final yr it deliberate to spend $896 million in prize cash for the 2026 World Cup within the U.S., Mexico and Canada. The governing physique devoted $110 million in prize cash for final yr’s Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
“Hosting a World Cup tournament is a huge undertaking — and having additional time to prepare allows us to maximize its impact across the globe,” USSF President Cindy Parlow Cone mentioned in a press release. “I’m proud of our commitment to provide equitable experiences for the players, fans and all our stakeholders. Shifting our bid will enable us to host a record-breaking Women’s World Cup in 2031 that will help to grow and raise the level of the women’s game both here at home as well as across the globe.”
In detailing the bid in December, the USSF proposed U.S. sites from among the same 11 to be used in the 2026 men’s World Cup. Mexico listed Guadalajara, Mexico City and Monterrey — its three sites for the men’s World Cup — and in addition for 2027 listed as possibilities Leon and Querétaro.
“We feel that moving our bid back to 2031 will allow us to promote and build up to the most successful Women’s World Cup ever,” MFF President Ivar Sisnieg mentioned in a press release. “The power and universality of our skilled girls’s leagues, coupled with our expertise from organizing the 2026 World Cup, means that we are going to have the option to present the perfect infrastructure in addition to an enthusiastic fan base that can make all of the taking part groups really feel at residence and to put collectively a World Cup that can contribute to the continued development of girls’s soccer.”
