2027 FIFA Women's World Cup

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2027 FIFA Women's World Cup
Copa do Mundo Feminina da FIFA 2027 (Brazilian Portuguese) [1]
Tournament details
Host countryBrazil
Dates24 June – 25 July
Teams32 (from 6 confederations)
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The 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup is scheduled to be the tenth edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international women's football championship contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournament will include 32 teams for the second time after FIFA announced the expansion of the tournament in July 2019. [2] Spain are the defending champions, having won their first title in 2023.

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On 17 May 2024, FIFA announced that Brazil won the hosting rights, making this the first FIFA Women's World Cup in South America. [3] [4] Brazil will become the sixth country—after Sweden, the United States, Germany, France, and Canada—to host both the men's and women's World Cup, having hosted the former back in 1950 and 2014. It is also the first country to host eight different FIFA competitions.

Host selection

On 23 March 2023, FIFA launched the bidding process for the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup. [5] The key dates include:

2023
2024

Four bids were confirmed by FIFA on 24 April 2023 to have expressed their interest in hosting the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup: [6]

On 24 November 2023, South Africa announced they were withdrawing from the race to host the competition, choosing to instead focus on submitting a bid for the 2031 FIFA Women's World Cup in the future. [7]

On 8 December 2023, the three remaining interested bids were submitted to FIFA.

On 29 April 2024, Mexico and the United States announced they were also withdrawing from the race to host the competition, choosing to instead focus on submitting a bid for the 2031 FIFA Women's World Cup because it could cause a disparity in gesture, due to the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which will take place a year before. [8] [9]

The short timeline for host selection, with the winning bid awarded three years before the tournament begins, has been compared to the longer timelines for the men's World Cup. During the 2027 selection process, the hosts of the 2030 and 2034 editions of the men's World Cup were confirmed by FIFA. [10]

Evaluation report

On 7 May 2024, 10 days before the vote, the evaluation report was released. Brazil's bid was deemed to have better stadiums, while the European bid promised a compact tournament. Overall, Brazil's bid scored higher than the European bid. [11]

Evaluation score

2027 FIFA Women's World Cup evaluation report [11]
Bidding nation(s)Evaluation score
Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 4/5
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium, Flag of Germany.svg  Germany and Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 3.7/5

Voting

74th FIFA Congress vote [3]
NationVote
Round 1
Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 119
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium, Flag of Germany.svg  Germany and Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 78
Abstentions10
Total votes207
Majority required104

Format

The Women's World Cup, since the 2023 edition, opens with a group stage consisting of eight groups of four teams, with the top two teams progressing from each group to a knockout tournament starting with a round of 16 teams. The number of games played overall is 64.

Teams

Qualification

FIFA's confederations organise their qualifications through continental championships, with the exception of UEFA, which organises its own qualifying competition. The host(s) will qualify automatically for the tournament, leaving most of the remaining FIFA member associations eligible to enter qualification if they chose to do so. The only exception may be Russia, which is currently under suspension by FIFA and UEFA from all competitions since 28 February 2022 for invading Ukraine four days earlier. [12] [13]

The allocation of slots for each confederation is given below. The slots for the host nation(s) will be taken directly from the quotas allocated to their confederation(s).

A ten-team play-off tournament will decide the final three spots at the Women's World Cup. The play-off slot allocation is as follows:

Qualified teams

TeamQualified asQualification dateAppearance
in finals		Last
appearance		Consecutive
streak		Previous best performance
Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil Hosts17 May 202410th 2023 10Runners-up (2007)

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