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ZURICH, November 11, 2026 – FIFA has published bid evaluation reports for the 2031 and 2035 editions of the Women’s World Cup, and said both bids under consideration have met the minimum hosting requirements.
The reports follow what FIFA described as a thorough assessment of each bid, including inspection visits to the bidding countries. The documents have been made available on FIFA.com.
For the 2031 tournament, the bid is a joint submission from the U.S. Soccer Federation, the Mexican Football Association, the Costa Rican Football Association and the Jamaica Football Federation.
For 2035, the bid is a joint submission from The Football Association, the Irish Football Association, The Scottish Football Association and The Football Association of Wales.
FIFA said both bids will be submitted to an Extraordinary FIFA Congress that will convene by videoconference on November 23, 2026, so that the organisation’s member associations can decide on the hosts of the two tournaments. The announcement frames that meeting, not the publication of the reports themselves, as the point at which the hosts are chosen.
The governing body said the reports reflect the comprehensive nature of its evaluation model, which it described as a hallmark of an enhanced assessment procedure used in selecting hosts of its flagship men’s and women’s events. According to FIFA, the model covers a range of criteria, including the event vision and key metrics, infrastructure, services, commercial aspects, sustainability and human rights.
FIFA did not, in Wednesday’s announcement, set out scores, a ranking of the two bids or a preferred bidder for either edition. It said the bids had been deemed to meet the minimum hosting requirements on the basis of the findings in the reports. The reports are the record of that evaluation; the choice of hosts is left to the member associations at the November 23 congress.
Further information on the bidding processes for the two tournaments is available in the tournament organisation section of FIFA.com. Wednesday’s statement confirms only that the two bids have cleared the minimum hosting threshold and will now go before Congress.
The Women’s World Cup is football’s leading women’s tournament. The 2027 edition will be played in Brazil, and the 2031 and 2035 decisions will determine the hosts for the two cycles that follow. Until Congress votes, FIFA has not named a host for either edition.
The two bids now before Congress are regional joint submissions rather than single-country offers: one grouping three Concacaf associations with Jamaica, and one grouping the four associations of the United Kingdom. FIFA’s announcement treats them in parallel, as the two files that have cleared the minimum threshold and will be put to a vote on the same day.
Source: FIFA.
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