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Will hosting the 2031 Women's World Cup payment the game? (3:42)
The Futbol Americas unit respond to FIFA announcing the 2031 and 2035 women's shot World Cups are acceptable to instrumentality spot successful the USA and the UK, respectively. (3:42)
Reuters
May 14, 2025, 05:32 AM ET
FIFA is targeting $1 cardinal successful gross from the Women's World Cup, Gianni Infantino said connected Tuesday astatine the Saudi Arabia-U.S. Investment Forum 2025 successful Riyadh.
The 2023 Women's World Cup, hosted by Australia and New Zealand, broke adjacent aft generating much than $570m successful revenue.
"Women's shot and women successful shot are crucially important," Infantino, the planetary shot governing body's president, said.
"It's increasing arsenic well, and exponentially, and we are targeting that arsenic good to person $1 cardinal gross conscionable with the Women's World Cup to reinvest successful the women's game."
The adjacent women's World Cup successful 2027 volition beryllium hosted by Brazil, making it the archetypal variation to beryllium held successful South America. The United States is poised to beryllium named big of the 2031 edition, which volition beryllium expanded to 48 teams from 32.
Infantino besides said determination was monolithic imaginable for shot to make much gross extracurricular Europe.
"If the remainder of the world, successful peculiar Saudi Arabia oregon the United States of America, would bash conscionable 20% of what Europe does successful soccer, we [could scope an magnitude of over] fractional a trillion [dollars] oregon much of GDP interaction [with our sport]," helium added.
"Saudi Arabia, by the way, is doing exceptionally good, arsenic well, by creating a women's league, a women's nationalist team. Women's shot is truly the lone squad athletics for women that has specified a immense assemblage and interaction arsenic well."
