{"id":375110,"date":"2026-07-16T05:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375110\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T05:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T05:38:10","slug":"north-texas-sights-set-on-hosting-2031-fifa-womens-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375110\/","title":{"rendered":"North Texas\u2019 sights set on hosting 2031 FIFA Women’s World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well before the 2026\u00a0World Cup<\/a> began, the members of the North Texas FIFA organizing committee were thinking ahead to the region\u2019s next chance to host a World Cup.<\/p>\n

Not the men\u2019s\u00a0\u2014 the women\u2019s.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s expected\u00a0FIFA will award the 2031 event in November or December, ahead of the 2027 Women\u2019s World Cup in Brazil. The United States is the only reported bidder, and North Texas is among 14 regions that are part of the proposal.<\/p>\n

North Texas fell short in landing this men\u2019s World Cup final, but the past month has shown the region is more than capable<\/a> of landing the women\u2019s title match, which the organizing committee highlighted Monday in a news conference before Tuesday\u2019s final match at Dallas (AT&T) Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Related: World Cup showed FIFA how \u2018we do things bigger and better in Texas,\u2019 Dallas organizer says<\/a><\/p>\n

Monica Paul, president of the local FIFA organizing\u00a0committee and\u00a0executive director of the Dallas Sports Commission, said the first goal in putting North Texas\u2019 best foot forward in that bid was to show\u00a0FIFA how strong this region could be in all aspects of operation\u00a0\u2014 games, the fan festival, transportation, a strong network of volunteers.<\/p>\n

Nina Vaca, one of the organizing committee co-chairs, said more than 11,000 people applied to serve as volunteers in this World Cup, with about 6,000 ultimately selected. Many already have expressed interest in volunteering for the 2031 Women\u2019s World Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It will be important, Paul said, for North Texas to show support for women\u2019s soccer in general and specifically in 2023-founded Dallas Trinity\u00a0FC<\/a>, which competes in the USL Super League.<\/p>\n

For the women\u2019s World Cup, group-stage games are played in smaller, soccer-specific venues. FC Dallas\u2019 Toyota Stadium, which is undergoing a major overhaul<\/a>, and AT&T Stadium, seemingly give North Texas a significant 1-2 punch in venue options.<\/p>\n

When FC Dallas owners Dan and Clark Hunt first explored upgrading Toyota Stadium, the cost estimate was $183 million. Added upgrades, however, have pushed the projected cost to $220 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019ll be somewhere in that range,\u201d Dan Hunt told The Dallas Morning News on Monday. \u201cMy brother and I just said,\u00a0\u2018Look, you get one shot to do this right, and we\u2019re going to continue to invest in it, even if we have to take more money out of our pocket to make sure we get the stadium to be the best small soccer-specific stadium.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, yes, Women\u2019s World Cup 2031 is on the docket for sure for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well before the 2026\u00a0World Cup began, the members of the North Texas FIFA organizing committee were thinking ahead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,732,88346,87906],"class_list":["post-375110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-article","tag-tp-att-stadium","tag-tp-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}