The House Nations of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Eire have expressed an curiosity in internet hosting the 2035 FIFA Girls’s World Cup event.
It might be the primary time the event could be held on UK soil, following two UEFA Girls’s European Championships held in England in 2005 and 2022.
In a FIFA Council on Wednesday, soccer’s governing physique introduced a advice that the event happen in Europe or Africa – which has resulted in an curiosity from a collective British bid.
The House Nations’ declaration of curiosity will happen later this month – with a call on the 2031 and 2035 Girls’s World Cup tournaments anticipated in the course of 2026.
UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer mentioned in an announcement: “Soccer is and all the time will probably be on the core of our nation’s identification. Whether or not we watch on TV, play on the weekends like I do, or just get pleasure from absorbing the environment within the pub, it brings communities collectively like little else.
“That satisfaction was on full show when England hosted UEFA Girls’s EURO 2022. It not solely confirmed one of the best of our nation to the world however impressed a technology of ladies into the sport, all whereas boosting the financial system.
England hosted the Euros in 2022 which the Lionesses went on to win
“The FIFA Women’s World Cup 2035 on home turf would be another monumental moment in our sporting history, driving growth and leaving a lasting legacy. The FA’s intention to bid has my government’s full support.”
FA chief government Mark Bullingham added: “Hosting the FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2035 would be an honour. We strongly believe that we could organise a fantastic tournament, building on the success of the UEFA Women’s EURO in 2022 and the subsequent rapid growth of the women’s game in England.
“We’re excited concerning the alternative to welcome the world, and internet hosting collaborating nations and followers in sold-out stadiums. There may be excellent help for the ladies’s sport on this nation and we wish to maximise this, not just for ladies’s and women’ soccer right here but additionally for the advantage of the worldwide sport.”
England Girls will compete for the Euros once more later this yr
The place have the earlier Girls’s World Cup tournaments been held?
- 1991 – China
- 1995 – Sweden
- 1999 – United States
- 2003 – United States
- 2007 – China
- 2011 – Germany
- 2015 – Canada
- 2019 – France
- 2023 – Australia and New Zealand
- 2027 – Brazil
FIFA announce Girls’s Membership World Cup plans
FIFA additionally introduced plans for a Girls’s Membership World Cup in addition to a separate annual worldwide staff event.
The Girls’s Membership World Cup, initially deliberate for 2026, will now happen in 2028. It’s going to comprise of 16 groups, with 5 slots routinely allotted for European golf equipment.
Africa, South America and North America every get two sides, with the ultimate three locations going to groups that qualify in a quick “play-in” spherical.
The event will probably be staged each 4 years, with hosts of the inaugural competitors but to be determined. Earlier than that, nevertheless, there will probably be a brand new continental problem held yearly.
The FIFA Girls’s Champions Membership will see the champions of Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, South American and North America battle it out. The primary of these tournaments will probably be held in January 2026 with tournaments additionally slated for 2027 and 2029.
FIFA insists there is a world urge for food for the 2 new competitions regardless of widespread fears about participant workload and journey. Unions have been vocal concerning the calls for of the present enjoying calendar and the bodily calls for on gamers.
The January timing of subsequent yr’s Champions Cup is simply after the same old European winter break within the ladies’s sport and proper on the finish of the switch window, two issues golf equipment and gamers may even face. It is also throughout the pre-season for groups in North America.
Questions are additionally routinely requested concerning the standing of girls’s soccer within the Olympics.
Though no date has been set, the brand new Membership World Cup will probably be in the identical yr as LA 2028, resulting in doubts about whether or not the world’s greatest gamers can play in two main tournaments in a calendar yr on prime of their membership and nationwide staff commitments.
