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Harris County-Houston Sports Authority CEO Ryan Walsh said that Houston \u201cwill bid to be a host city\u201d for the 2031 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup after hosting men’s games in 2026. Getty Images <\/p>\nHarris County-Houston Sports Authority CEO Ryan Walsh said that Houston \u201cwill bid to be a host city\u201d for the 2031 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup after hosting men’s games in 2026. Getty Images <\/p>\n
Harris County-Houston Sports Authority CEO Ryan Walsh said that Houston \u201cwill bid to be a host city\u201d for the 2031 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup<\/a>, according to Peter Warren of the HOUSTON CHRONICLE. Walsh last year said that there was \u201cdefinitely interest in throwing Houston\u2019s hat in the ring for 2031.\u201d Walsh mentioned that he \u201cfeels like the city has lots of momentum\u201d following the city\u2019s 2026 World Cup hosting duties. The FIFA World Cup 2026 Houston Host Committee noted that attendance for Houston\u2019s seven World Cup matches, pre-match fan marches, FIFA Fan Fest and the Dynamo\u2019s Soccer Celebration \u201ctopped 1 million people.\u201d Houston leaders have also \u201cfrequently mentioned that the city has received positive feedback from FIFA about their job as a host.\u201d The 2031 Women\u2019s World Cup \u201cisn\u2019t the only major sporting event Houston will aim to host in the coming years.\u201d The Harris County-Houston Sports Authority is also \u201caiming to be a host city for the 2031 Rugby World Cup.\u201d Houston has already been tapped to host the 2028 UCI BMX Racing World Championships and the 2027 and 2031 AAU Junior Olympics. There is also the \u201cpotential of the men\u2019s World Cup coming back to the U.S. in 2038.\u201d Walsh said that it would be a \u201cphenomenal experience to host again in 2038 but that\u2019s something to think more deeply about in a few years once the ground has settled a little bit more\u201d (HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 7\/27<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harris County-Houston Sports Authority CEO Ryan Walsh said that Houston \u201cwill bid to be a host city\u201d for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[135651,56,58,57,6067,731,7787,3692],"class_list":["post-389282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-fifa-womens-world-cup","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-international-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-womens-sports","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389282","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=389282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}