Brazil named 2027 Ladies’s World Cup hosts

Brazil had been named hosts of the 2027 Ladies’s World Cup after beating a joint portray by Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany (BNG).

They turned into the principle nation to be handed the rights by an open vote, with member associations balloting 119 to 78 in favour of Brazil at Fifa’s congress in Bangkok on Friday.

That is also the principle time a Ladies’s World Cup has been hosted by a South American nation.

“Congratulations to Brazil,” Fifa president Gianni Infantino mentioned.

“We may perhaps presumably well presumably derive the supreme World Cup in Brazil. Many thanks as effectively to the BNG portray, who had been amazing.”

Both bids met net hosting requirements, nonetheless Brazil scored increased on technical aspects overlaying areas comparable to stadiums, lodging, fan zones and transport in a Fifa portray evaluate document.

The United States and Mexico withdrew their joint portray in April, announcing they would focal point on bidding for the match in 2031, while South Africa did the an identical in November.

“We knew we would be celebrating a victory for South American ladies’s soccer and for ladies,” mentioned president of the Brazilian Football Confederation, Ednaldo Rodrigues.

“You are going to also be positive, without a arrogance, we can enact the supreme World Cup for ladies.”

Valesca Araujo, the operational supervisor of Brazil’s portray workforce, added: “We’re engaged on a metamorphosis, no longer merely for the nation nonetheless for the continent.”

Brazil hosted the males’s World Cup in 1950 and 2014.

The tenth edition of the Ladies’s World Cup will recount the an identical 32-workforce format as turned into outmoded in 2023 in Australia and Sleek Zealand, where Spain were topped champions after defeating England in the final.

China, Sweden, the United States, Germany, Canada and France derive all also beforehand hosted the opponents.