Brazil announced as host of 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup

Brazil will host the 2027 FIFA Girls’s World Cup after a majority of FIFA’s 211 members voted for the South American nation over a joint bid from Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.

In a FIFA first, an open vote was performed on Friday on the governing physique’s annual congress in Bangkok, with Brazil receiving 119 votes to 78.

Brazil was the popular host after FIFA launched a technical analysis report of each bids, rating barely larger (4.0 out of 5) than the European proposal (3.7 out of 5) throughout a number of classes together with lodging, fan pageant venues, transport infrastructure and stadiums.

They had been the one two bids thought of by the FIFA Congress after a 3rd joint bid by the US and Mexico withdrew earlier this month, whereas a fourth by South Africa was additionally dropped late final yr. Each will re-submit bids to host the 2031 Girls’s World Cup as a substitute.

Brazil was already favoured to host the match after FIFA negotiated a broader males’s World Cup take care of CONMEBOL — the South American soccer confederation — final October.

Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay agreed to take three video games for the 2030 males’s centenary match, which can be majority hosted in Spain, Portugal, and Morocco. It will permit FIFA to stage the opening match within the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo, the place the primary World Cup remaining befell in 1930.

The confederation additionally agreed to skip its flip to bid to host the 2034 Males’s World Cup, which is able to most probably go to Saudi Arabia. In alternate, Brazil was anticipated to be awarded internet hosting rights for the 2027 Girls’s World Cup.

Brazil has hosted a senior World Cup twice, in 1950 and 2014, with 10 of the identical stadiums used for the final males’s version for use for the ladies’s match.

Stadium capability was one consideration in FIFA’s analysis report, with the European bid’s venues having smaller general sizes than Brazil, which might have an effect on FIFA’s efforts to surpass the attendance data set in Australia and New Zealand final yr.

The authorized and contractual complexity of internet hosting a match throughout three international locations additionally noticed the European bid marked decrease than Brazil’s.

This problem surfaced throughout final yr’s inaugural co-hosted match match the place gamers who had been primarily based in Australia or New Zealand had their prize cash taxed in another way relying on the host nation’s personal guidelines, with some gamers having to pay extra in tax than others.

The 2027 match will happen between June 24 and July 25, with the opening and shutting video games to be performed on the well-known Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, which may match 73,000 followers.