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For the primary time within the nation’s historical past, Brazil will host the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup in 2027. The choice was introduced on the 74th FIFA Congress in Bangkok, Thailand. Brazil obtained 119 votes to beat a joint bid from Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. The latter obtained 78 votes.
“Once I wakened and noticed the information, that was like a dream come true,” Debinha stated in a press release offered to The Equalizer by the Kansas Metropolis Present. “I’m so comfortable for the brand new era to have this chance to play at residence in entrance of our followers, our households and buddies. I’m positive after that girls’s soccer in Brazil will hold bettering so this can be a victory of ours, for Brazilians, so we are able to present the world the Brazilian tradition, the happiness and the soccer.”
Debinha, who joined the Present as a free agent in 2023, has 61 caps with the Brazil nationwide crew. That features a pair of World Cups in 2019 and 2023. She is certainly one of a dozen gamers from Brazil competing within the Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League this season.
Brazil legend Marta echoed her sentiment in a press release posted on social media.
“I’m positive that the 2027 Ladies’s World Cup can be a hit, and the Brazilian folks will, as at all times, be with open arms to welcome the world soccer neighborhood.”
America and Mexico had been additionally within the working till withdrawing three weeks in the past to deal with the 2031 match. South Africa made the identical choice in Nov. 2023.
Brazil would be the first South American nation to host the celebrated match. Nevertheless, Brazil has hosted the boys’s match twice. The newest was 2014.
Former host nations for the ladies’s aspect embody China PR (1991 and 2007), Sweden (1995), the US (1999 and 2003), Germany (2011), Canada (2015) and France (2019). Australia and New Zealand and hosted collectively in 2023.
Brazil was eradicated in Group play on the 2023 Ladies’s World Cup. It was their first group-stage exit since 1995 and marked a disappointing finish to the profession of Brazilian legend Marta. The furthest Brazil has superior was a runners-up end in 2007. They fell 2-0 to Germany that 12 months.
“For us to host the soccer world and host the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup in Brazil for the primary time, will result in extra girls and younger women taking part in soccer in colleges, in parks, on the seaside,” president of the Brazilian Soccer Confederation Ednaldo Rodrigues stated in a press release to FIFA. “That legacy will result in girls being extra included within the soccer world and can showcase their capacity to take up different positions in soccer.”
FIFA Ladies’s World Cup 2027 is anticipated to happen between June 24 and July 27. In Brazil’s authentic proposal, the ultimate could be July 25 at Estádio do Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro. Their proposal included 10 host cities with current stadiums: Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Cuiabá, Fortaleza, Manaus, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and São Paulo. Capability at these stadiums ranges from 42,788 to 73,139.
2027 Ladies’s World Cup format
The Ladies’s World Cup started in 1991 with 12 international locations. It expanded to 16 in 1999 and 24 in 2015. The match expanded once more in 2023 to incorporate 32 groups for the primary time. Groups had been organized into eight teams of 4 with the highest two from every group–16 groups–advancing to the knockout stage. The Spherical of 16 and Quarter-finals are single elimination, then semifinalists will compete in both the ultimate or third-place match.
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World Cup Qualification
Qualifying tournaments are held throughout the six FIFA continental zones: Africa, Asia, North and Central America and Caribbean, South America, Oceana and Europe. Every zone is awarded a sure variety of berths based mostly on the power of groups in its federation.
FIFA Membership World Cup
FIFA additionally introduced the addition of a Membership World Cup throughout Congress. The Membership World Cup will happen in January and February 2026 and can embody 16 groups. Up to now, FIFA has not revealed a lot different data like competitors construction, qualification or a number web site.
