{"id":240021,"date":"2025-10-21T02:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T02:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/240021\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T02:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T02:46:12","slug":"us-announces-joint-bid-to-host-2031-womens-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/240021\/","title":{"rendered":"US announces joint bid to host 2031 Women\u2019s World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States Soccer Federation is partnering with Mexico, Costa Rica and Jamaica in its bid to host the 2031 Women\u2019s World Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The federation formally announced the plans on Monday at a news conference in Manhattan and noted it would be the \u201clargest Women\u2019s World Cup in history\u201d if the uncontested bid was picked.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The United States had been the only nation to express interest in hosting the 2031 Women\u2019s World Cup by an April 30 deadline set by FIFA and a host will officially be confirmed next April by the FIFA Congress in Vancouver.\u00a0<\/p>\n

AP<\/p>\n

\u201cWe already have tremendous excitement as more than 30 US cities have expressed interest in hosting matches U.S. Soccer president Cindy Parlow Cone told reporters on Monday, according to The Athletic. <\/a>\u201cBut what excites me most isn\u2019t just putting on a world-class tournament. It\u2019s the legacy we will create, because this Women\u2019s World Cup will be equal in every sense of the word to a men\u2019s World Cup, not 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

Leaders from U.S. soccer and its partner federations did not release details about how matches would be split up among the four nations and would mark the second time the United States had partnered with other countries to host the World Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 2026 Men\u2019s World Cup is being jointly hosted by the United States, Mexico and Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n

United States\u2019 Alex Morgan, center, holds the trophy celebrating at the end of the Women\u2019s World Cup final soccer match between U.S. and The Netherlands at the Stade de Lyon in Decines, outside Lyon, France, Sunday, July 7, 2019 AP<\/p>\n

The United States last hosted the Women\u2019s World Cup in 2003 after it was moved from China due to a SARS outbreak and 1999\u2019s Women\u2019s World Cup is often held up as a turning point for women\u2019s soccer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Parlow Cone was a member of the 1999 U.S. squad and hopes the 2031 tournament would provide women\u2019s soccer another springboard.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2031, our legacy will be inspiring every country to embrace and invest in women\u2019s soccer, not because it\u2019s the right thing to do, but because it\u2019s the smart thing to do. It\u2019s a smart investment. There is an extraordinary opportunity to grow the women\u2019s game around the world,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 2031 tournament would be the first under the expanded format that will include 48 countries competing, increased from 32 teams, which will be the format for the 2027 Women\u2019s World Cup in Brazil.\u00a0<\/p>\n

From left to right, Mexican Football Federation president Mikel Arriola, Jamaica Football Federation president Michael Ricketts, Costa Rican Football Federation president Osael Maroto Mart\u00ednez and U.S. Soccer president Cindy Parlow Cone pose with jerseys at a news conference in New York, Monday, Oct. 20, 2025. AP<\/p>\n

An estimated 4.5 million fans are expected to attend the 2031 Women\u2019s World Cup across all four nations, according to a press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The United States and Mexico had originally expressed interest in bidding for the 2027 tournament, but pulled out to turn its attention to 2031.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States Soccer Federation is partnering with Mexico, Costa Rica and Jamaica in its bid to host…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,403,99,21,19,22,20,25,132455,132456,24,83999],"class_list":["post-240021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-soccer","tag-us-womens-national-soccer-team","tag-usa","tag-womens-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}