Their bid is anticipated to face competitors from different potential hosts akin to Brazil and a trio of European nations.
The US and Mexico have introduced a joint bid to host the Ladies’s World Cup in 2027, trying to construct on their profitable marketing campaign to co-host the Males’s World Cup, alongside Canada, in 2026.
Soccer federations from the 2 nations introduced the joint bid on Friday, competing with bids from different potential hosts akin to Brazil and a trio of Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
“It is a pivotal time for girls’s soccer,” mentioned US Soccer President Parlow Cone. “The US and Mexico are in a singular place to host a World Cup that can leverage the identical venues, infrastructure, and protocols used for the Males’s World Cup only a 12 months prior.
“This is not going to solely unlock the financial potential of girls’s soccer, it’ll ship a message to younger gamers world wide that there is no such thing as a restrict to what they will obtain.”
2027 FIFA Ladies’s World Cup bid: Submitted ☑️
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— U.S. Soccer (@ussoccer) December 8, 2023
The competitors to host the 2027 Ladies’s World Cup follows a 2023 tournament that underscored each the rising recognition and remaining limitations going through ladies’s soccer.
Spain secured the victory in that competitors, hosted by Australia and New Zealand and seen as an unprecedented success.
However a shiny second for girls’s soccer was shortly soured after Luis Rubiales, the previous head of Spain’s soccer affiliation, forcibly kissed Spanish ahead Jenni Hermoso whereas the workforce celebrated its victory.
The incident set off a wave of anger and FIFA introduced a three-year ban for Rubiales in October.
The US is enjoying host to each the 2024 CONMEBOL Copa America and the 2026 Males’s World Cup, which it’ll host together with Mexico and Canada.
The trio of Western European nations put of their bid to host the 2027 match earlier on Friday, and Brazil submitted its personal bid final month.
“Intensive and detailed consultations between the three federations together with key stakeholders together with central governments dates again to 2021,” the Dutch soccer federation (KNVB) mentioned in a press release accompanying the European nations’ bid.
“This has led to alignment across the perception that our three nations are nicely positioned to stage a FIFA Ladies’s World Cup 2027 of unparalleled high quality and affect.”
South Africa initially submitted a bid to host in 2027, however withdrew final month.