\n US joined by Mexico, Costa Rica and Jamaica in plan to host 2031 Women\u2019s World Cup, the only bid\n <\/p>\n
\n\tNEW YORK: The US plans to co-host the 2031 World Cup with regional neighbors, the same structure being used for the men\u2019s championship next year.<\/p>\n
\n\tMexico, Costa Rica and Jamaica were added Monday to the US Soccer Federation proposal as co-hosts, the only bid to be considered when FIFA members meet April 30 to formally decide where the expanded 48-nation tournament will be played.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThis Women\u2019s World Cup will be equal in every sense of the word to a men\u2019s World Cup,\u201d US Soccer Federation president Cindy Parlow Cone said during a news conference, \u201cnot just in the number of teams and matches, but equal in the quality of the facilities, with the same type of travel, accommodations and support.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tShe said more than 30 US cities have expressed interest in hosting in 2031, when 104 games will be played. Decisions on stadiums likely won\u2019t be made until 2027 at the earliest.<\/p>\n
\n\tNext year\u2019s men\u2019s tournament will be played at 11 NFL stadiums, three in Mexico and two in Canada, with all games in the US from the quarterfinals on.<\/p>\n
\n\tFIFA, running the World Cup rather than a local organizing committee, is asking up to $6,730 list price for regular tickets and as much as $73,200 for an eight-game hospitality plan at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, site of the 2026 men\u2019s final on July 19.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cThe demand for the Women\u2019s World Cup here is going to be incredible,\u201d USSF CEO JT Batson said. \u201cWe see from our own pricing data of selling tickets for our men\u2019s and women\u2019s national team games that ticket prices are very similar.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tBatson said the USSF, FIFA, host federations and host cities will reflect on next summer\u2019s tournament as part of planning for 2031.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe US hosted the 1999 Women\u2019s World Cup, which was expanded from 12 teams to 16, and 1.2 million fans attended the 32 matches.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cWomen in general as they walk through the world is a political act. Women on a soccer field is more of a political act, saying to the world: I deserve to be here,\u201d said Abby Wambach, the 2012 world player of the year. \u201cIn 1999, FIFA didn\u2019t believe that the team could play in big football stadiums. And the organizing committee and the players said: No, we can do this. We will figure out how to sell this thing out.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe US is a four-time women\u2019s champion. Canada was not included in the bid because it hosted the 2015 tournament.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe USSF and the Mexican Football Federation withdrew their joint bid to host the 2027 tournament in April 2024 and said they intended to focus on staging the 2031 event. Two weeks later, FIFA selected Brazil for 2027.<\/p>\n
\n\tFIFA said this past April the USSF was the only bidder for the 2031 tournament. A United Kingdom plan by England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland was the sole submission for 2035.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe US also staged the 2003 tournament on four months\u2019 notice after FIFA decided not to stick with the original host, China, where there was an outbreak of the SARS virus. Six venues were used for a schedule that included 15 doubleheaders, and the tournament drew about 680,000.<\/p>\n
\n\tWambach isn\u2019t concerned the 2027 and 2031 tournaments will be streamed by Netflix in the US rather than televised on a broadcast or cable network.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cNetflix is in a position to try fun, unique, different things that legacy media might not,\u201d Wambach said. \u201cOur women\u2019s national team, we win World Cups, right? And so if we win World Cups, I don\u2019t care who you are, you\u2019re getting Netflix for that month.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US joined by Mexico, Costa Rica and Jamaica in plan to host 2031 Women\u2019s World Cup, the only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-229421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}