Foot & Soccer Soccer Match Reports, Football News 
March 5 – FIFA will reportedly postpone the inaugural version of the Ladies’s Membership World Cup to at the least 2027.
Initially deliberate for January and February 2026, the 16-team event has confronted delays because of unconfirmed particulars such because the host, format, and qualification course of. The postponement is anticipated be confirmed on the FIFA Council assembly on Wednesday.
In line with The Athletic, girls’s soccer golf equipment, confederations, and leagues have persuaded FIFA to contemplate a smaller event for subsequent 12 months, that includes 4 to 6 groups. This smaller format might be held within the years between the bigger 16-team occasion, which is deliberate to be performed on a quadrennial foundation.
The information is one other setback to FIFA with its mission to unite the world. The expanded males’s Membership World Cup has struggled for relevance, however FIFA has all the time been bullish about launching the feminine equal. On the sidelines of the final Ladies’s World Cup, FIFA stated that it was advancing with plans for a Ladies’s Membership Cup, however occasion particulars remained scant. The FIFA Council first greenlighted a Ladies’s Membership World Cup in 2022.
“We’re effectively into the planning for a brand new Membership World Cup,” stated FIFA’s chief of girls’s soccer Sarai Bareman in Sydney.
“It’s an important step ahead for ladies’s soccer. We have to make it possible for in between the World Cups each 4 years, the membership sport is retaining the curiosity that we see from the World Cups. A Membership World Cup is a incredible strategy to drive momentum within the leagues and the golf equipment.”
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