the 2027 Women’s World Cup will be played in Brazil

The South American continent will host the competition for the first time. The award was announced on Friday during the 74th FIFA Congress.

A new continent visited. Brazil will host the first Women’s World Cup in South America in 2027. The announcement of the award took place on Friday, May 17, during the 74th FIFA Congress, organized in Bangkok (Thailand). The Brazilian file beat the joint candidacy of Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, by 119 votes to 78 of the member federations.

“I feel extremely emotional, we knew it was going to be very difficult. It’s a victory for Latin American football, and for women’s football in Latin America,” reacted the president of the Brazilian Federation, Ednaldo Rodrigues. For its tenth edition, the competition is preparing to explore a new continent, in the wake of the 2023 vintage, in Australia and New Zealand, which broke commercial and audience records, in a 32-team format. used for the first time.

The folder auriverde stood out for the quality of its stadiums. Ten speakers that were already used during the Men’s World Cup in 2014 will be used again. The legendary Maracana, in Rio de Janeiro, should host the opening match and the final. However, some will require work, like the Amazonia in Manaus, a “white elephant” that has been virtually unused for a decade.

The Fifa report also highlighted the repercussions “prodigious” for women’s football that holding the competition in South America could have, where strong inequalities in salaries and infrastructure persist to the detriment of women. Unlike its men’s counterpart, five times titled, the Brazilian women’s team has never won the World Cup. The Seleçao was eliminated in 2023 in the group stage, during which it lost against France (2-1).