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March 6 – FIFA has introduced that it’s going to launch a Ladies’s Membership World Cup competitors in 2028, two years later than first deliberate. The world governing physique additionally confirmed the introduction of a Ladies’s Champions Cup debuting in 2026.
The 2 new tournaments had been ratified at a digital assembly of the FIFA Council. The Membership World Cup shall be staged on a quadrennial foundation whereas the six-team Champions Cup is ready to happen yearly – besides in years the place the previous match takes place.
“The FIFA Ladies’s Membership World Cup shall be a defining second within the progress of ladies’s membership soccer, giving the world’s high golf equipment the platform they need to compete towards the most effective and put the ladies’s membership sport within the international highlight,” mentioned FIFA president Gianni Infantino in a press release.
“Following intensive session with key stakeholders, the inaugural version will happen in 2028 and can function a complete of 19 golf equipment (together with qualifying playoffs), permitting for a aggressive and an inclusive format based mostly on the sporting advantage gathered globally.”
The Membership World Cup will function 16 groups from the six confederations – Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, South America and Oceania.
13 golf equipment will earn a direct passage into the competitors with three spots up for grabs by way of a convoluted playoff system.
The AFC, CAF, Concacaf and CONMEBOL confederations will every have two direct berths, whereas UEFA can have 5 slots.
The principle physique of the match will function 16 golf equipment competing in 4 teams of 4, with the highest two groups in every pool advancing to the knockout stage. As of but, no particulars on the prize cash accessible have been printed.
In the meantime, the Ladies’s Champions Cup will function the winners of every of the confederations’ membership championships. The European champions, in addition to the winners of the Concacaf Champions League and Ladies’s Copa Libertadores, will wager a bye to the final 4.
Champions from Asia and Oceania will meet in spherical one of many preliminary stage, with the winner assembly the African champions – who will host spherical two.
“These are extra than simply new tournaments – these are drivers for the way forward for our sport that can elevate requirements, present invaluable alternatives for progress and native growth, and generate new income – all on a worldwide scale,” mentioned Jill Ellis, FIFA’s chief soccer officer.
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