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The United States has unveiled its joint bid with regional neighbors to host the 2031 World Cup, with the same structure being used men‘S championship Next year.
Mexico, costa rica And Jamaica Added on Monday US Soccer Federation Proposal, sole bid to be considered on April 30 fifa The members formally meet to decide where the expanded 48-nation tournament will be played.
“it womenThe World Cup will be equal to the Men’s World Cup in every respect. We Football Federation President Cindy Parlow Cone made the pledge during a press conference.
“Not only in the number of teams and matches, but also in the quality of the facilities, with similar types of travel, accommodation and support.”
He said more than 30 US cities have expressed interest in hosting in 2031, when 104 games will be played. Decisions on stadiums are likely not to be taken until 2027 at the earliest.
Next year’s men’s tournament will be played in 11 NFL stadiums, three in Mexico and two in Canada, with all games through the quarterfinals taking place in the United States.
FIFA, running the World Cup instead of the local organizing committee, is asking up to the $6,730 list price for the regular stamp and up to $73,200 for an eight-game hospitality plan at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, site of the 2026 men’s final on July 19.
“The demand for a Women’s World Cup here is going to be incredible,” said USSF CEO JT Batson. “We see from our pricing data of ticket sales for our men’s and women’s national team games that ticket prices are very similar.”
Batson said the USSF, FIFA, host federations and host cities will consider next summer’s tournament as part of planning for 2031.
The United States hosted the 1999 Women’s World Cup, which was expanded from 12 teams to 16 and attended by 1.2 million fans across 32 matches.
“Normally when women travel around the world it’s a political act. Women on the soccer field are like a political act, saying to the world: I deserve to be here,” said 2012 World Player of the Year Abby Wambach.
“In 1999, FIFA didn’t believe teams could play in big football stadiums. And the organizing committee and the players said: No, we can do this. We’ll figure out how to sell this thing.”
America is the four-time women’s champion. Canada was not included in the bid because it hosted the 2015 tournament.
The 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 hosting the 2031 event. Two weeks later, FIFA selected Brazil for 2027.
FIFA said last April that the USSF was the sole bidder for the 2031 tournament. The United Kingdom’s Plan for 2035 was the only submission by England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The United States also hosted the 2003 tournament on four months’ notice, after FIFA decided not to stick with original hosts China, where there was an outbreak of the SARS virus. Six venues were used for a program that included 15 doubleheaders, and the tournament attracted approximately 680,000 spectators.
Wambach is not concerned that the 2027 and 2031 tournaments will be streamed by Netflix in the US rather than broadcast on broadcast or cable networks.
“Netflix is ​​in a position to try fun, unique, different things that legacy media probably couldn’t do,” Wambach said.
“Our women’s national team, we win the World Cup, right? And so if we win the World Cup, I don’t care who you are, you’re getting Netflix for that month.”