The Ladies’s World Cup will probably be expanded from 32 to 48 groups in time for the 2035 match in the UK.
The choice was taken throughout a digital FIFA Council assembly on Friday.
It’ll take impact from 2031 when the Ladies’s World Cup is because of be staged in the USA.
“This decision ensures we are maintaining the momentum in terms of growing women’s football globally,” stated FIFA president Gianni Infantino.
FIFA nonetheless must ratify the 2031 and 2035 hosts. The 2027 match in Brazil will stay at 32 groups.
It means the variety of matches will leap from 64 below the 32-team format to 104 – as would be the case on the males’s World Cup in 2026 within the USA, Canada and Mexico.
There will probably be issues within the girls’s sport about extra mismatches just like the 13-0 victory by the USA over Thailand on the 2019 Ladies’s World Cup when there have been 24 finalists.
However including one other 12 groups for the Australia-New Zealand match in 2023 didn’t produce a end result as one-sided.
The Netherlands did thrash Vietnam 7-0 however the Individuals solely beat the newcomers 3-0.
The English-led bid was the one remaining contender for the 2035 Ladies’s World Cup after Spain-Portugal-Morocco didn’t submit a legitimate joint entry as deliberate.
Britain ought to be capable of deal with 104 matches with stadiums throughout England, Northern Eire, Scotland and Wales set for use.
England received the Ladies’s European Championship at Wembley in 2022.
The Soccer Affiliation’s chief government Mark Bullingham stated in April: “Hosting England’s first FIFA World Cup since 1966, along with our home nations partners, will be very special.”
There are hopes that internet hosting the match at stadiums throughout England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Eire will assist develop the recognition of the ladies’s sport within the UK.
It comes following England’s success within the Euro 2022 remaining and 1-0 defeat to Spain within the 2023 World Cup remaining.
England star Chloe Kelly instructed Sky Information final yr: “The Euros here was amazing and a World Cup would be absolutely incredible.
“I believe it is everybody’s dream, in fact… England followers love soccer and we’re able to get behind the group. So I believe it is essential that we have now many celebratory moments collectively.”
