At present it was introduced that the U.S., Mexico, Jamaica and Costa Rica will all submit a joint bid to host the 2031 Ladies’s World Cup. If this bid have been to come back via that signifies that each america and Mexico will host two World Cups within the matter of 5 years.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – OCTOBER 20: Mexico federation president Mikel Arriola, Jamaica federation president Michael Ricketts, Costa Rica federation president Osael Maroto, and U.S. Soccer President Cindy Parlow Cone maintain up jerseys as they announce the 4 international locations internet hosting the 2031 FIFA Ladies’s World Cup through the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup 2031 Bid Announcement Occasion on October 20, 2025 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Howard Smith/ISI Images/ISI Images through Getty Pictures)
Mexico and america had made it recognized that they have been going to submit a joint bid for the 2027 World Cup however then in 2024 they dropped the bid. They did so as a result of “it might enable them extra time to be taught from the joint internet hosting of the 2026 event and easy methods to correctly help the host cities,” per U.S. Soccer President Cindy Parlow Cone.
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What wasn’t mentioned however might be inferred, was that funding wouldn’t be the identical from one yr to the following. A whole lot of funding, i.e. cash, has been and will probably be poured into the event in 2026 however sponsors won’t be keen to provide the identical backing for the Ladies’s World Cup a yr later in 2027. Particularly because the Olympics will probably be held the yr after in 2028 which suggests corporations could have three consecutive tournaments to spend cash on. Whereas there are corporations that will probably be more than pleased to put money into girls’s sports activities, others gained’t and can excuse themselves from the event. Funding in girls’s sports activities has come a great distance however there’s nonetheless extra work to be completed. Ready 4 years to host the event was the very best choice so the World Cup would get the funding and the eyeballs it deserves.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 27: Gianni Infantino performs through the 2025 International Citizen Pageant at Central Park’s Nice Garden on September 27, 2025 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Taylor Hill/Getty Pictures)
With the announcement that 4 international locations intend to host the 2031 World Cup it leaves loads of questions in regards to the logistics. The place will the inaugural sport be performed? The place will the ultimate be performed? Will all 4 international locations host an equal quantity of video games or will one nation host nearly all of them? If individuals have any doubts they’ll look to the 2026 World Cup. Canada and Mexico will host a choose quantity of group stage video games however the majority of the video games will probably be performed within the U.S. with the ultimate to happen in New Jersey. It’s simple to guess that the identical factor will occur with the World Cup in 2031 since U.S. Soccer is spearheading the bid.