Brazil awarded 2027 Ladies’s World Cup by FIFA

Brazil has been confirmed as host of the 2027 Ladies’s World Cup.

On Friday, 211 member nations voted on the bid throughout the 74th FIFA Congress in Bangkok to resolve between Brazil and a joint bid from Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands as hosts for the subsequent version of the event.

A joint bid between the USA and Mexico was withdrawn three weeks in the past with the 2 nations deciding to concentrate on the 2031 event and calling for a “historic first” equal funding with the boys’s event being hosted throughout the 2 nations in 2026.

South Africa additionally withdrew its bid in November 2023, citing a willpower to arrange a extra complete bid for the 2031 World Cup.

This was the primary time Congress had voted on the hosts for a girls’s event. Beforehand, hosts have been determined based mostly on voting from the FIFA Council.

Brazil was confirmed because the front-runner throughout FIFA’s analysis report of the 2 bids. Brazil has by no means hosted a Ladies’s World Cup, however hosted the boys’s event in 1950 and 2014.

Brazil was within the working to host the 2023 Ladies’s World Cup, however dropped out as a result of lingering difficulties brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Japan additionally withdrew its bid, leaving solely Colombia and the joint submission from Australia and New Zealand, which finally gained with 63% of the council vote.

It was just lately introduced that FIFA would additionally introduce the Membership World Cup in January/February 2026 with 16 golf equipment participating from numerous nations.

The dates for the World Cup are but to be fully confirmed. Nonetheless, FIFA has allotted area between Might 25-31 and July 2027 for the event to happen.