{"id":50821,"date":"2026-11-12T15:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T13:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=50821"},"modified":"2026-11-12T15:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T13:05:09","slug":"fifa-clears-joint-bids-for-2031-2035-womens-world-cups","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/fifa-clears-joint-bids-for-2031-2035-womens-world-cups\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA clears joint bids for 2031, 2035 Women&#8217;s World Cups"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\">Two joint bids for the Women&#8217;s World Cup in 2031 and 2035 have \u200bmet the minimum hosting requirements and \u200cwill be submitted to the Extraordinary FIFA Congress for approval, world soccer&#8217;s governing body FIFA said \u200bon Wednesday.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\">The 2031 bid is a \u200bjoint submission from the United States, Mexico, \u2060Costa Rica and Jamaica, which proposed \u200b20 stadiums in 20 host cities, receiving \u200ban overall score of 4.4 out of 5.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\">The 2035 joint bid from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and \u200bWales proposed 19 stadiums in 15 host \u200bcities and received an overall score of 4.3 out \u200cof \u20605<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The 2031 edition will have 48 teams taking part for the first time, with the 2035 edition also maintaining the \u200bsame format \u200bwith 12 \u2060groups of four teams each, followed by a knockout round \u200bthat begins with the last 32 .<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The \u2060Extraordinary FIFA Congress will convene on November 23.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\">The next edition of the Women&#8217;s World \u2060Cup \u200bwill be held next \u200byear in Brazil from June 24 to July 25.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21069,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-50821","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The \u2060Extraordinary FIFA Congress will convene on November 23.","published_date":"","news_description":"The \u2060Extraordinary FIFA Congress will convene on November 23.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50823,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50821\/revisions\/50823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=50821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}