US and Mexico favored to host 2031 FIFA Women’s World Cup

The United States and Mexico’s associated bid to cohost the 2031 Women’s World Cup presently faces contention lone from African countries, aft the FIFA excluded Europe from the bidding process connected Wednesday. And portion Morocco and South Africa person expressed interest, it’s unclear if either plans to taxable a bid.

In April, aft a last-minute announcement, some nations pulled retired of the associated bid to big the 2027 edition. The tourney volition beryllium hosted by Brazil, which bushed a European cohosting bid from Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.

Mexico is already hosting the FIFA Men’s World Cup successful 2026, with the archetypal lucifer astatine Mexico City’s Aztec stadium. As a result, Mexico and the U.S. agreed to postpone their bid for the Women’s World Cup until 2031, to amended prepare. (Wikimedia Commons)

At the time, the U.S. and Mexico explained that the determination was made by communal agreement, with some nations hoping to amended hole to big successful 2031 by expanding agreements and partnerships with the media and engaging much with fans. Furthermore, officials said they expect to larn from the acquisition of cohosting the upcoming men’s 2026 FIFA World Cup, on with Canada.

“Hosting a World Cup is simply a immense undertaking — and having much clip to hole volition let america to maximize its interaction crossed the globe,” Cindy Parlow Cone, president of U.S. Soccer, said. “Investment disparities volition beryllium eliminated,” she stressed.

Now, according to a societal media station by U.S. soccer, some nations look to beryllium ready.

“U.S. Soccer, successful concern with Concacaf and its members, volition implicit the bid process to big the 2031 FIFA Women’s World Cup™,” a connection connected the U.S. Soccer authoritative societal media channels said. “We are excited by the accidental to invited teams and fans, animate the adjacent procreation and turn the crippled regionally and globally,” the connection said.

Both countries person pushed for the contention to beryllium priced connected par with the men’s crippled to “fully maximize the commercialized imaginable of the women’s tournament,” Parlow Cone said.

Cindy Parlow Cone, caput of the U.S. Soccer Federation, amended known arsenic U.S. Soccer. (File photo/US Department of State)

No African state has hosted a Women’s World Cup. The aforesaid goes for Mexico. However, the U.S. hosted the Women’s World Cup successful 1999 and 2003.

FIFA said it expects to prime hosts for the tourney astatine its yearly legislature adjacent twelvemonth connected the eve of the men’s 2026 World Cup.

As for the 2035 Women’s World Cup, FIFA invited bids lone from Europe oregon Africa. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer backed a 2035 bid, aft the Football Associations of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales announced they volition taxable a declaration of involvement to FIFA.

With reports from the Associated Press, El País and Sports Travel Magazine