Co-hosts Australia and New Zealand will play their first matches of the 2023 FIFA World Cup on Thursday.
The 2023 tournament will be the initial time a World Cup for men or ladies will be shared across two nations from various FIFA confederations. Australia is an individual from Asia’s soccer body and New Zealand is in the Oceania bunch. It is also the first women’s edition to be co-hosted.
It is additionally the first women’s World Cup to have more than one host nation.
The tournament starts July 20 and the title match is scheduled for August 20 at Sydney Olympic Arena in Australia.
The combined Australia and New Zealand bid authoritatively won the bid to have the World Cup in June 2020, beating Colombia 22-13 in a vote by FIFA’s ruling council, which passed judgment on them as having the best business possibilities for women’s soccer.
This is the very thing you really want to realize about future World Cup facilitating destinations.
2026 World Cup: Location, host cities, stadiums:
The next FIFA World Cup will be held in North America. Sixteen cities across the US, Canada and Mexico will have soccer’s most renowned competition in what could be an aid to the game’s developing popularity among Americans.
The three nations’ joint bid to have the 2026 World Cup beat Morocco’s offered in a 2018 vote. It will be the second time the U.S. has the men’s competition, in the wake of facilitating the 1994 World Cup. It will be Canada’s first time hosting the men’s tournament, and Mexico’s record third time as World Cup has in the wake of facilitating it in 1970 and 1986.
FIFA reported the list of host cities for the 2026 tournament in June 2022.
United States: 11 cities
- Atlanta: Mercedes-Benz Stadium (capacity 75,000)
- Boston: Gillette Stadium (capacity 70,000)
- Dallas: AT&T Stadium (capacity 92,967)
- Houston: NRG Stadium (capacity 72,220)
- Kansas City: Arrowhead Stadium (capacity 76,640)
- Los Angeles: SoFi Stadium (capacity 70,000)
- Miami: Hard Rock Stadium (capacity 67,518)
Mexico: 3 cities
- Guadalajara: Estadio Akron (capacity 48,071)
- Mexico City: Estadio Azteca (capacity 87,523)
- Monterrey: Estadio BBVA (capacity 53,460)
Canada: 2 cities
- Toronto: BMO Field (capacity 45,500)
- Vancouver: BC Place (capacity 54,500)
- New York/New Jersey: MetLife Stadium (capacity 87,157)
- Philadelphia: Lincoln Financial Field (capacity 69,328)
- San Francisco/Bay Area: Levi’s Stadium (capacity 70,909)
- Seattle: Lumen Field (capacity 69,000)
2027 World Cup host bids
FIFA sent off the bidding system for the following women’s tournament in March.
Four bids for the 2027 World Cup have been confirmed by FIFA as of April 2023:
- A joint bid between Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands
- South Africa
- Brazil
- A joint bid among Mexico and the US
2030 World Cup host bids
The 2030 World Cup will be the 24th men’s tournament and the centennial World Cup competition. The main emphasis of the tournament occurred in 1930 in Uruguay.
As of July 2023, two offers have been affirmed by FIFA to have the 2030 tournament:
- A joint bid between Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay and Chile
- A joint bid between Spain, Portugal and Morocco
There are additionally many offers that have been deserted, including a between confederation joint bid involving Egypt, Greece and Saudi Arabia.