Sports FIFA show Brazil will host the 2027 Girls’s World Cup (1:14)
Brazil are awarded the 2027 Girls’s World Cup after a vote on the 74th FIFA congress. (1:14)
Emily Keogh
Might maybe also 17, 2024, 01:51 AM ET
Brazil has been confirmed as host of the 2027 Girls’s World Cup.
On Friday, 211 member countries voted on the notify all over the 74th FIFA Congress in Bangkok to philosophize between Brazil and a joint notify from Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands as hosts for the following version of the occasion.
A joint notify between america and Mexico became once withdrawn three weeks in the past with the 2 countries deciding to focal point on the 2031 occasion and calling for a “ancient first” equal funding with the men’s occasion being hosted all over the 2 countries in 2026.
South Africa additionally withdrew its notify in November 2023, citing a dedication to prepare a extra comprehensive notify for the 2031 World Cup.
This became once the most most important time Congress had voted on the hosts for a girls’s occasion. Previously, hosts had been determined in response to vote casting from the FIFA Council.
Brazil became once confirmed as the entrance-runner all over FIFA’s evaluate report of the 2 bids. Brazil has never hosted a Girls’s World Cup, but hosted the men’s occasion in 1950 and 2014.
Brazil became once in the running to host the 2023 Girls’s World Cup, but dropped out attributable to lingering difficulties prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Japan additionally withdrew its notify, leaving handiest Colombia and the joint submission from Australia and Fresh Zealand, which in spite of every thing acquired with 63% of the council vote.
It became once now not too long in the past introduced that FIFA would additionally introduce the Club World Cup in January/February 2026 with 16 clubs taking part from a good deal of countries.
The dates for the World Cup are but to be entirely confirmed. Then again, FIFA has distributed space between Might maybe also 25-31 and July 2027 for the occasion to happen.