November 5 – FIFA has introduced a standalone tender in the USA for the published rights to the 2027 Girls’s World Cup that Brazil will stage.
On its web site, the world federation set a deadline for submission of bids for December 3. The tender additionally extends to Puerto Rico. The US shall be one of many favourites for 2027.
“This represents the primary time that the FIFA Girls’s World Cup shall be bought within the USA on a standalone foundation. The tender course of is primarily centered on the 2027 version. Nonetheless, events are invited to submit a further provide for the rights to the FIFA Girls’s World Cup 2031 (host to be confirmed),” mentioned FIFA.
The US pulled out of the bid for internet hosting 2027 saying they’d as an alternative focus in bidding for 2031.
In the USA, Fox and Telemundo have held the rights to each the lads’s and the ladies’s World Cup in English and Spanish because the 2015 Girls’s World Cup in Canada. The broadcasters’ rights deal expires after the 2026 males’s World Cup in the USA, Canada and Mexico.
The US and Mexico withdrew from the bidding race for the 2027 Girls’s World Cup, which Brazil landed by defeating a European bid in a FIFA Congress vote. Nonetheless, US Soccer mentioned that they might search to host the 2031 finals, which might render the 2031 media rights helpful for home broadcasters.
Final 12 months, Australia and New Zealand staged the Girls’s World Cup, however US audiences had been down due to the unfavourable time zones and the early exit of the US crew. The event’s last averaged 2.21 million viewers throughout Fox, Telemundo, Universo and Peacock, a drop in viewership of 75% from the 2019 last in France.
FIFA is unbundling the rights to the lads’s and the ladies’s World Cup in a bid to generate extra income and develop the ladies’s sport. Within the lead-up to the 2023 Girls’s World Cup, FIFA president Gianni Infantino threatened a blackout in main European nations as a result of broadcasters, in his view, weren’t paying sufficient for the rights.
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