Brazil will host the 2027 Women’s World Cup after a vote of FIFA’s full membership selected the South American bid over a joint proposal from Belgium, Netherlands and Germany.
The FIFA Congress on Friday voted 119-78 for Brazil in the lowered subject of two candidates to host the 2027 event after a joint bid by the United States and Mexico was pulled late final month, and South Africa withdrew its candidacy in November.
It shall be the first time the world ladies’s event, first performed in 1991, is staged in South America .
Brazil was strongly favoured to win since October when FIFA brokered offers for the males’s World Cups of 2030 and 2034. It left South American neighbours Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay getting only one recreation every of the 104 in the 2030 event that shall be principally co-hosted by Spain, Portugal and Morocco.
A key level for FIFA was clearing the method for its shut ally Saudi Arabia to get the 2034 World Cup uncontested in a fast-track course of. South American soccer physique CONMEBOL’s settlement to take a small a part of the 2030 event eliminated it from the subsequent bidding.
The US-Mexico choice to decide out and concentrate on bidding for the 2031 World Cup — that call is due subsequent yr — was one other indicator of Brazil’s anticipated win.
The Brazilian bid crew hugged and celebrated on the podium after the end result was introduced, and described it as a victory for ladies’s soccer, for his or her nation and for South America.
“We are a South American country that achieved the victory for women’s soccer,” Brazil’s soccer federation president Ednaldo Rodrigues stated earlier than reflecting on latest flooding that has devastated elements of the nation. “After the things that impact all Brazilians — a catastrophe due to the climate change — our achievement today, the first Women’s World Cup in South America, will help strengthen us.”
It was the first time that each one of FIFA’s member associations had the alternative to weigh in on the host of the ladies’s event. Previously, it was determined by the FIFA Council, the governing physique’s decision-making committee.
There have been 207 of the 211 members eligible to vote in the digital poll which gave three choices: Brazil, BNG or abstain.
Brazil was much more favoured to win the contest after rating greater in an analysis report by a FIFA-appointed panel.
The subsequent World Cup votes, to endorse the 2030 and 2034 hosts, shall be on Dec. 11 in a web-based congress held remotely.