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America Soccer Federation and the soccer federations of Mexico, Costa Rica and Jamaica submitted their formal bid e book to FIFA to co-host the 2031 Ladies’s World Cup by Friday’s deadline.
The four-way bid is the one proposal for the 2031 match, that means it is basically a formality that these 4 nations will probably be awarded the occasion. There is just one submission for the 2035 Ladies’s World Cup as effectively — a joint bid by Eire, Scotland and Wales.
Fourteen of the 20 proposed venues within the U.S.-Mexico-Costa Rica-Jamaica bid are American cities. Eleven of them are NFL stadiums, together with Nashville SC’s MLS-specific venue, Orlando’s multi-purpose stadium and a comparatively new stadium in San Diego that homes San Diego FC, the NWSL’s Wave and San Diego State soccer.
–Arlington, Texas (AT&T Stadium)
–Atlanta (Mercedes-Benz Stadium)
–Charlotte, N.C. (Financial institution of America Stadium)
–Denver (Empower Subject at Mile Excessive)
–East Rutherford, N.J. (MetLife Stadium)
–Houston (NRG Stadium)
–Inglewood, Calif. (SoFi Stadium)
–Kansas Metropolis, Mo. (Arrowhead Stadium)
–Minneapolis (U.S. Financial institution Stadium)
–Nashville, Tenn. (Geodis Park)
–Orlando, Fla. (Tenting World Stadium)
–San Diego (Snapdragon Stadium)
–Seattle (Lumen Subject)
–Washington (future Commanders stadium)
The opposite cities submitted for analysis have been Mexico Metropolis, Guadalajara, Monterrey and Torreon in Mexico; the Costa Rican capital of San Jose; and the Jamaican capital of Kingston.
Nonetheless, the joint bid truly lists 36 totally different metro areas throughout the 4 international locations that encompasses ‘practically 50 venues able to enjoying host to a record-breaking occasion.’ The bid e book says greater than 20 venues have been proposed in an effort to ‘show a dedication to securing the very best internet hosting circumstances and guaranteeing the match represents the total range of our area on a worldwide scale.’
America hosted the Ladies’s World Cup in 1999 and 2003, and it’s making ready for its second World Cup on the lads’s aspect in 2026 (a joint effort with Canada and Mexico). Seven of the American stadiums on the checklist — AT&T Stadium, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, MetLife Stadium, NRG Stadium, SoFi Stadium, Arrowhead Stadium and Lumen Subject — will function host venues subsequent 12 months.
Mexico has additionally hosted two males’s World Cups by itself (1970, 1986). This might mark the primary time both Jamaica or Costa Rica hosts both World Cup.
–Subject Degree Media
