UK is planning bid to host FIFA Women’s World Cup for the primary time
- UK Sport confirmed they wish to stage 70 occasions throughout the subsequent 15 years
The UK is plotting a bid to host the Women’s World Cup for the primary time within the 2030s.
UK Sport, the Government company answerable for main sporting occasions, confirmed that the match is one in every of 70 occasions they wish to deliver to this nation over the subsequent 15 years.
Other ‘aspirational hosting targets’ embrace the Rugby World Cup, the Ryder Cup, the World Athletics Championships and the Tour de France Grand Depart.
But there are not any plans to host the lads’s soccer World Cup, Olympics or Commonwealth Games earlier than 2040.
UK Sport declare the Women’s World Cup is ‘the biggest sporting event the UK has never hosted’ and a bid could possibly be made for the 2031 match.
The Government is planning a bid to host the Women’s World Cup for the primary time ever
The Lionesses gained the Women’s Euros when the match was hosted in England in 2022
A feasibility examine will probably be launched after FIFA resolve on the 2027 hosts in May. If the 2027 version goes to the joint European bid from Belgium, Germany and Netherlands – who’re up towards Brazil and Mexico/USA – then the UK would goal 2035 or 2039 as an alternative.
A senior World Cup has not been held on these shores since 1966, however Britain might face competitors from Saudi Arabia, with UK Sport acknowledging ‘our international rivals are catching up’.
‘The Women’s World Cup is the most important sporting occasion that the UK has by no means hosted, so it has a particular enchantment to us,’ admitted Simon Morton, UK Sport’s director of occasions. ‘There is definitely an aspiration to host it in the 2030s.
‘But we have to respect the fact that there are other countries interested in hosting them, so that’s why you see a bit little bit of an open-ended place.
‘What is clear is that the UK’s mega-event internet hosting pipeline is tightening, and our worldwide rivals are catching up, so we have to reply.
‘Live sport is a fundamental part of this country’s social cloth. No different nation buys extra tickets per head to main sporting occasions than we do within the UK.
‘In the years ahead, we want to host a programme of live sport that resonates with the British public and makes a difference to millions of people’s lives.’
Of all the long run occasions the UK is contemplating bids for, the 2029 World Athletics Championships on the London Stadium is furthest down the highway, with a feasibility examine already being carried out.
UK Athletics chief government Jack Buckner admitted: ‘We’d love to have another crack at a World Championships.
‘We can’t definitely say it’ll be London, but it would be in our mind given the success of it in 2017.’
England is already internet hosting the Women’s Rugby World Cup subsequent 12 months, however UK Sport needs to stage the lads’s match once more in 2035 or 2039, which might be the primary time since 2015.
The Ryder Cup has not taken place in Britain because it was at Gleneagles in 2014 nevertheless it might return in 2031 or 2035, with the Solheim Cup a chance for 2030.
UK Sport are additionally wanting into bringing the Tour de France again to those shores in 2027 following the success of the Grand Depart in Yorkshire in 2014.
Alongside the ‘traditional powerhouse’ occasions, the governing physique will goal city and e-sports competitions to ‘engage as broad a range of sports fans as possible’.
But they don’t plan to bid for the Commonwealth Games, which remains to be on the lookout for hosts for 2026 and 2030.
The UK needs to stage the lads’s Rugby World Cup once more in 2035 or 2039, which might be the primary time since 2015
The Tour de France final got here to the UK in 2014 when the Grand Depart was held in Yorkshire, nevertheless it might return in 2027
UK Sport additionally wish to stage the 2029 World Athletics Championships in Britain
‘The challenge for us thinking about the Commonwealth Games in the future is simply a value for money one,’ added Morton.
‘We’ve acquired an open dialogue with the Commonwealth Games Federation, however till there’s a little bit extra readability on what a sustainable Commonwealth Games mannequin seems to be like sooner or later, it doesn’t seem on our listing.’
