The U.S. is on observe to co-host the 2031 Girls’s World Cup alongside different North American nations whereas the U.Ok. is ready to carry the next version in 2035, with FIFA confirming Thursday that these have been the lone bids for the rights to host each tournaments.
FIFA’s deadline to submit bids for the internet hosting rights to both competitors is Saturday, although no different nations appear poised to precise curiosity. Any international locations that meet Saturday’s deadline will then have till Might 5 to verify their bids by submitting the bidding settlement.
U.S. Soccer had beforehand expressed curiosity in internet hosting the 2027 Girls’s World Cup however introduced final 12 months a shift to the 2031 match. The preliminary bid included Mexico and CBS Sports activities confirmed final month that the neighboring nation may nonetheless host video games in 2031, although U.S. Soccer may increase the internet hosting rights to different Concacaf nations as FIFA works out what number of groups will take part within the 2031 match. FIFA expanded the lads’s World Cup from 32 to 48 groups beginning with the 2026 version, co-hosted by the U.S., Mexico and Canada, and that enlargement may come to the ladies’s competitors in time for 2031.
“We’re excited in regards to the alternative to co-host the 2031 FIFA Girls’s World Cup and, in collaboration with our Concacaf companions, are dedicated to delivering a match that leaves a long-lasting legacy – one which elevates ladies’s soccer internationally and conjures up future generations of gamers and followers,” U.S. Soccer stated in an announcement on Thursday. “As FIFA finalizes the variety of collaborating groups within the match, we’ll solidify our partnership construction with fellow Concacaf nations. We sit up for sharing extra particulars and unveiling our full imaginative and prescient for the 2031 FIFA Girls’s World Cup within the close to future.”
The U.S. has beforehand hosted the Girls’s World Cup in 1999 and 2003, with the U.S. ladies’s nationwide staff successful the second of their 4 titles in the course of the 1999 competitors. The 2003 version was to be hosted in China, however the SARS outbreak noticed FIFA transfer it to the U.S.
By the point the 2031 match takes place, the U.S. may also have already got the expertise of internet hosting two males’s World Cups in 1994 and 2026.
The 2035 version, in the meantime, will probably be a joint effort between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Eire. None of these nations have hosted a Girls’s World Cup earlier than, although England hosted the lads’s World Cup in 1966, when the hosts received their solely title. England additionally hosted the 2022 Girls’s Euro, which set attendance and viewership information and signaled a brand new period of development for the ladies’s sport within the soccer-loving nation.
“We’re honoured to be the only real bidder for the Girls’s World Cup 2035. Internet hosting the primary FIFA World Cup since 1966 with our dwelling nations companions will probably be very particular. The arduous work begins now, to place collectively the very best bid by the top of the 12 months,” England FA CEO Mark Bullingham stated in an announcement.
FIFA will formalize the 2031 and 2035 Girls’s World Cup hosts within the second quarter of 2026.
2031 and 2035 Girls’s World Cup bid timeline
- April 5: Deadline to submit curiosity to host the 2031 and 2035 Girls’s World Cup
- Might 5: Deadline to verify curiosity to host the 2031 and 2035 Girls’s World Cup by submitting the bidding settlement
- Q2 2025: Bid workshop and observer program to happen
- This autumn 2025: Deadline to submit bids to FIFA
- February 2026: FIFA to conduct web site visits and inspections in bidding nations
- Might 2026: FIFA to publish bid analysis experiences
- Q2 2026: Designation of bids by the FIFA Council
- Q2 2026: FIFA Council to nominate hosts for 2031 and 2035 Girls’s World Cups; assembly location TBD
