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In what was initially seen as a major step ahead for the worldwide promotion of ladies’s soccer, FIFA President Gianni Infantino introduced the inaugural Girls’s Membership World Cup, set to be held in January-February 2026. Nonetheless, with lower than a 12 months remaining earlier than the scheduled kickoff, FIFA is reportedly getting ready to make a controversial determination relating to the competitors.
Throughout its Might 2024 assembly in Bangkok, the FIFA Council confirmed plans for a 16-team event to be held each 4 years, set to happen throughout the European home season, between the Girls’s Champions League group phases and knockout rounds. Infantino expressed his enthusiasm for the event on the time:
“To this date, we don’t have a worldwide membership competitors for ladies. But we’re asking (males’s) golf equipment to kind ladies’s golf equipment everywhere in the world… Because of this, (we would like) to have a 16-team FIFA Girls’s Membership World Cup in January/February 2026,” Infantino said. Nonetheless, with no host nation introduced and important logistical particulars nonetheless unresolved, FIFA is now anticipated to delay the event.
Based on The Athletic, FIFA is anticipated to postpone subsequent 12 months’s Girls’s Membership World Cup as a result of lack of a confirmed host nation, event format, and qualification standards. Almost ten months after its announcement, the event stays and not using a clear construction, which has additionally hindered the securing of economic and broadcast offers.
Whereas FIFA has but to launch an official assertion, experiences point out that the choice is anticipated to be formalized throughout the subsequent FIFA Council assembly on Wednesday.
What’s subsequent for the Girls’s Membership World Cup?
With the 16-team format postponed, FIFA is reportedly contemplating a smaller-scale Girls’s Membership World Cup in 2025, that includes 4 to 6 groups. This is able to mirror the Males’s Intercontinental Cup mannequin, together with golf equipment from completely different federations worldwide.
As for the unique 16-team event, FIFA is anticipated to delay its launch by not less than 12 months. Officers consider that suspending the occasion and holding a smaller competitors within the meantime will create the required time and house for stakeholders to correctly construction and commercialize the event earlier than its full-scale debut.
