Brazil will host the 2027 Girls’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 within the lowered subject of two candidates to host the 2027 match after a joint bid by america and Mexico was pulled late final month, and South Africa withdrew its candidacy in November.
It will likely be the primary time the worldwide girls’s match, first performed in 1991, is staged in South America .
Brazil was strongly favoured to win since October when FIFA brokered offers for the lads’s World Cups of 2030 and 2034. It left South American neighbours Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay getting only one recreation every of the 104 within the 2030 match that will likely be largely co-hosted by Spain, Portugal and Morocco.
A key level for FIFA was clearing the way in which 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 match eliminated it from the following bidding.
The US-Mexico choice to choose 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 group hugged and celebrated on the rostrum 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’re a South American nation that achieved the victory for ladies’s soccer,” Brazil’s soccer federation president Ednaldo Rodrigues stated earlier than reflecting on current flooding that has devastated elements of the nation. “After the issues that affect all Brazilians — a disaster as a result of local weather change — our achievement in the present day, the primary Girls’s World Cup in South America, will assist strengthen us.”
It was the primary time that every one of FIFA’s member associations had the chance to weigh in on the host of the ladies’s match. Beforehand, 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 within the digital poll which gave three choices: Brazil, BNG or abstain.
Brazil was much more favoured to win the competition after rating increased in an analysis report by a FIFA-appointed panel.
The subsequent World Cup votes, to endorse the 2030 and 2034 hosts, will likely be on Dec. 11 in a web based congress held remotely.