SportLightning Posted February 2 Report Posted February 2 With Brazil set to host 2027. It's time to start thinking about who will host the 2031 FIFA Women's World Cup. So far we have eight countries that are interested of hosting it. Bids: China PR England Japan Mexico/United States Morocco South Africa Spain. May 15 later this year in Asuncion, Paraguay at the 75th FIFA Congress. The host will be decided. Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted March 6 Report Posted March 6 It looks increasingly very likely that the United States, regardless whether or not it will include Mexico in the bid (hope it does), will host in 2031, 32 years after the incredible 1999 WWC that captured both national and international attention and 28 years from the previous hosting prompted by SARS in China, as the heavy fave, steering away from England, Japan, South Africa, China, Morocco, and Spain with England, South Africa, Spain, and Morocco more likely to host in 2035 with those 4 cleared away and barred from 2031. This was announced today. FIFA loves the potential for "record-breaking revenue and packed NFL stadiums" as well as the effective marketing and massive international soccer pedigree (now embarassingly tarnished there in the last one) the USA instantly provides and KNOW how to host and capitalize massive sports events: https://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/article/fifa-makes-us-heavy-favorite-to-host-2031-womens-world-cup-195236527.html Expect also the FIFA WWC field to be expanded to 48 teams, up from 32, starting with this one in a possible proposal after two cycles from 24 to 32 starting with 2023. Like to see what the allocation would look like and that of the intercontinental playoffs beforehand: https://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/article/fifa-will-analyze-expanding-world-cup-to-64-teams-in-2030-132020472.html https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5968956/2024/12/04/womens-world-cup-48-teams/ https://africa.espn.com/football/story/_/id/44125860/women-world-cup-2031-usa-mexico-host-bid https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1148585/fifa-womens-world-cup-teams-expansion ICYMI, Netflix is taking over the exclusive American FIFA WWC broadcasting from FOX and Telemundo starting with 2027-2031 in a landmark deal: https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/43075385/netflix-fifa-agree-deal-women-world-cup-2027-2031 https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/womens-world-cup-netflix Quote
yoshi Posted March 6 Report Posted March 6 And we're apparently doing a UK bid for 2035! Well overdue, good to see the FA & government finally committing - hopefully it'll be successful, though I don't know what competition we'll face (if any) Quote
Sir Rols Posted March 7 Report Posted March 7 4 hours ago, Durban Sandshark said: It looks increasingly very likely that the United States, regardless whether or not it will include Mexico in the bid (hope it does), will host in 2031 … and leading that bid sounds like the perfect job for Trump to appoint Andrew Tate to Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted March 27 Report Posted March 27 On 3/6/2025 at 9:25 PM, Sir Rols said: … and leading that bid sounds like the perfect job for Trump to appoint Andrew Tate to Yikes! Hope that never gets around to seeing that and afterwards. But Trump will be out of office by 2031. The women certainly wouldn't to be around them... Also hopefully Mexico would have a more recent qualification to the next WWC in Brazil 2027 after being away from the previous two before potentially sharing with the USA again in four years afterwards. To earn some experience in potentially expanding field, where they would have no excuse not to qualify out of CONCACAF. Quote
StefanMUC Posted March 28 Report Posted March 28 5 hours ago, Durban Sandshark said: Yikes! Hope that never gets around to seeing that and afterwards. But Trump will be out of office by 2031. For biological reasons rather than for following the constitution, if at all. Quote
SportLightning Posted April 20 Author Report Posted April 20 So USA and Mexico will await official ratification next May. Quote
Durban Sandshark Posted May 7 Report Posted May 7 On 3/27/2025 at 11:05 PM, StefanMUC said: For biological reasons rather than for following the constitution, if at all. Surely that'll be the case. But it also definitely leaves behind legacies as far as society and the world at large for years are concerned. Yes, it is definitely expanding to 48 teams with US Soccer's support starting with 2031: https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/44515026/uk-set-host-2035-women-world-cup-rival-bids-drop-out Anyway, the FIFA Council announced in April the 48-team 2031 FIFA Women's World Cup allocation spots in the newly expanded field in response to the deepening level and growth of worldwide play dating from the 2010s and 2020s. Like with the men's version, there will be intercontinental playoff winner spots. But the major difference in terms of spots, unlike in the men's World Cup game, is that European national women's teams get the biggest increase as opposed to other continents with the possible exception of Africa. I get why here because Europe is where the women's soccer talent is the deepest, talented, most developed and competitive and organized, and professionalized overall continent-wide right now. Man, that's practically the entire UEFA EURO field and then some, unless that too gets expended, something that we could see expanded itself by then. As we can expect from an expanded field, we will without a doubt see and expect some WWC debutants. --CONCACAF (North America, Caribbean, and Central America): 5 slots (including automatic hosts the United States, possibly still could include a potential CONCACAF automatic co-host like Mexico or maybe Canada, up 1 from 2019-2031) --CAF (Africa): 7 slots (up 3 from 4 in 2019-2027) --AFC (Asia): 8 slots (up 2 from 6 in 2019-2027) --OFC (Oceania): 1 slot (expect New Zealand in this as always) --UEFA (Europe): 20 slots (up 9 from 11 in 2019-2031) --CONMEBOL (South America): 4 slots (up 1 from 2019-2031) --Interconfederation Playoff Teams: 3 slots (same since 2023) And those inter-continental playoff tournament, which I consider as part of the WWC like a NCAA Tournament March Madness play-in, will also see an increase in its spots too. Every confederation will still have at least 2 spots except the Oceania's OFC, which will still have only 1, but CONCACAF will attain an additional spot like it would in next year's 2026 World Cup as the host confederation up to 3 and Europe's UEFA will have another entry, reaching at 2. So including the intercontinental playoff teams allocations, the 2031 FIFA Women's World Cup field will have 57 teams total participating in North America... --CONCACAF: 8 spots (including hosts USA) --CAF: 9 spots --AFC: 10 spots --UEFA: 22 spots --OFC: 2 spots --CONMEBOL: 6 spots Sure it's very early on this. But based on what we endured so far at this, I can see the WWC debutants--to add to the 44 nations that already tasted WWC action in its history as of 2023--come 2031 being Finland, Belgium, Austria, Poland, Wales, Senegal, Taiwan, Indonesia, Zimbabwe, India, Uzbekistan, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Iceland, Wales, Czech Republic, Croatia, Serbia, Greece, Hungary, Slovakia, Turkey, Mali, Slovenia, Botswana, Algeria, Tunisia, Trinidad & Tobago, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, Guatemala Quote
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