The 2031 FIFA Women's World Cup is scheduled to be the 11th edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international women's soccer championship contested by the national teams that represent the member associations of FIFA. The tournament will be the first to involve 48 national teams.

The tournament hosts will be Mexico, the United States, Costa Rica, and Jamaica.

Host selection

The host nation(s) for the 2031 Women's World Cup will be formally decided by the tenth extraordinary FIFA Congress on November 23, 2026, in Zürich, two years after the host selection for the 2027 edition. On March 5, 2025, the FIFA Council approved the bid regulations, which restricted bids to CONCACAF and CAF members. The key dates include: March 31, 2025: Member associations to submit their expressions of interest to host the 2031 and 2035 Women's World Cup April 30, 2025: Member associations to confirm their interest in bidding to host the Women's World Cup by submitting the bidding agreement Q2 2025: Bid workshop and observer program to take place November 28, 2025: Member associations to submit their bids to FIFA February 2026: FIFA to organize on-site inspection visits to bidding countries March 2026: Publication of FIFA's bid evaluation report 2nd quarter: Designation of bids by the FIFA Council November 23, 2026: Appointment of the 2031 and 2035 Women's World Cup hosts at the tenth extraordinary FIFA Congress in Zürich, Switzerland

On April 3, 2025, FIFA announced that the United States bid was the only valid bid, with other CONCACAF nations eligible to host games. The United States bid had been announced alongside Mexico and had explored a limited number of games in Costa Rica and Jamaica. Mexico later joined the United States as hosts on May 27, 2025. Costa Rica and Jamaica also joined as hosts on October 20, 2025.

It will be the third Women's World Cup hosted by the United States, after 1999 and 2003. This will be the first time Mexico will host the FIFA Women's World Cup, which will make it the seventh country—after Sweden, the United States, Germany, France, Canada, and Brazil—to host both the men's and women's World Cups, having hosted the former in 1970, 1986, and 2026. This will be the first senior FIFA World Cup to take place in Costa Rica and Jamaica, and the first in Central America and the Caribbean. Costa Rica will become the first country to host all three FIFA Women's World Cups, having hosted the U-17 World Cup in 2014 and the U-20 World Cup in 2022. It will mark the first time Jamaica has hosted a FIFA tournament. This will also be the first Women's World Cup to be hosted in more than two countries.

Format

The expansion of the Women's World Cup from 32 to 48 teams comes with the success of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup, where the number of participants was increased from 24 to 32 teams. The rapid growth of women's soccer in the 2020s led to the potential expansion following suit with the men's World Cup. During the March 5, 2025, FIFA Council meeting, FIFA president Gianni Infantino stated that the tournament would possibly be expanded to 48 teams depending on decisions made in the lead-up to the host selection. On April 3, 2025, the tournament was expanded to 48 teams starting from the 2031 FIFA Women's World Cup, a decision confirmed one month later on May 9, 2025.

The teams will be split into 12 groups of 4 teams, with the top two of each group and the eight best third-placed teams progressing to a new round of 32. The total number of games played will increase from 64 to 104, and the maximum number of games played by teams reaching the final will increase from seven to eight.

Venues In its hosting requirements document, FIFA stipulated that the 32-team competition will have a minimum of eight stadiums, of which at least five were to be existing venues. The stadiums would have minimum seating capacities of 20,000 for most matches, 40,000 for the semifinals, and 65,000 for the opener and final. However, additional changes will be made to accommodate the expansion to 48.

In Costa Rica, the only city interested is San José.

In Jamaica, the only city interested is Kingston.

In Mexico, several cities are interested: Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey, Pachuca, Querétaro, and Torreón.

In the United States, more than 30 regions featuring existing stadiums have shown interest, including Atlanta, Baltimore, Birmingham, Boston, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dallas–Fort Worth, Denver, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, Nashville, New York/New Jersey, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, St. Louis, the Tampa Bay Area, and Washington, D.C., with bidding set to begin in fall 2025. Additionally, the New Stadium at RFK Campus in Washington, D.C., is planned to be completed in 2030 as to be eligible as a host venue.

On November 28, 2025, the bid book listed 20 possible stadiums the bidding committee had in mind with additional stadiums mentioned as well. No official statement has been made yet on when the host city selection process will begin.

A denotes a stadium used for previous Women's World Cup tournaments. A denotes an indoor stadium with a fixed or retractable roof with interior climate control.

+List of proposed host cities and sample stadiums Country City Stadium Capacity Image New York/New Jersey(East Rutherford, New Jersey) MetLife Stadium 82,500(bid book: 87,157) Dallas(Arlington, Texas) AT&T Stadium 80,000(bid book: 92,967)(expandable to 105,000) Kansas City Arrowhead Stadium 76,416(bid book: 76,640) Denver Empower Field at Mile High 76,125 Charlotte Bank of America Stadium 75,037 Houston Reliant Stadium 72,220(expandable to 80,000) Atlanta Mercedes-Benz Stadium 71,000(bid book: 75,000)(expandable to 83,000) Los Angeles(Inglewood, California) SoFi Stadium 70,240(expandable to 100,240) Seattle Lumen Field 68,740(expandable to 72,000) Minneapolis U.S. Bank Stadium 66,202(expandable to 73,000) Washington, D.C. New Stadium at RFK Campus 65,000 Orlando Camping World Stadium 60,219(expandable to 65,194) San Diego Snapdragon Stadium 35,000(expandable to 55,000) Nashville Geodis Park 30,109 Mexico City Estadio Banorte 87,523 Monterrey(Guadalupe) Estadio BBVA 53,500(bid book: 53,460) Guadalajara(Zapopan) Estadio Akron 49,813(bid book: 48,071) Torreón Estadio Corona 29,101 San José Costa Rica National Stadium 35,000 Kingston Independence Park 37,500(after renovation)

+List of backup host cities and sample stadiums Country City Stadium Capacity Image Los Angeles Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum 77,500 Los Angeles(Pasadena, California) Rose Bowl 72,000(after renovation) Baltimore M&T Bank Stadium 70,745 Tampa Bay(Tampa, Florida) Raymond James Stadium 69,218(expandable to 75,000) San Francisco Bay Area(Santa Clara, California) Levi's Stadium 68,500(bid book: 70,909)(expandable to 75,000) Philadelphia Lincoln Financial Field 67,594(bid book: 69,328) Cleveland(Brook Park, Ohio) New Huntington Bank Field 67,000 Boston(Foxborough, Massachusetts) Gillette Stadium 64,628(bid book: 70,000) Phoenix(Glendale, Arizona) State Farm Stadium 63,400(expandable to 72,200) Nashville Nissan Stadium 60,000 Birmingham Protective Stadium 47,100 San Francisco Bay Area(San Francisco) Oracle Park 42,000 Los Angeles(Carson, California) Dignity Health Sports Park 27,000 Cincinnati TQL Stadium 26,000 Orlando Inter.co Stadium 25,500 New York/New Jersey(New York City) Etihad Park 25,000 New York/New Jersey(Harrison, New Jersey) Sports Illustrated Stadium 25,000 Dallas(Frisco, Texas) Toyota Stadium 22,500(after renovation) St. Louis Energizer Park 22,423 Miami(Fort Lauderdale, Florida) Inter Miami CF Stadium 21,550 Houston Shell Energy Stadium 20,656 Salt Lake City(Sandy, Utah) America First Field 20,213 Columbus ScottsMiracle-Gro Field 20,371 Indianapolis Eleven Park 20,000 Washington, D.C. Audi Field 20,000 Kansas City CPKC Stadium 11,500(expandable to 20,000) Monterrey(San Nicolás de los Garza) Estadio Universitario 41,886 Querétaro Estadio Corregidora 34,130 Pachuca Estadio Hidalgo 25,922 San José Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá 23,112

Teams Qualification FIFA's confederations organize their own qualifying competitions, with the exception of CAF and CONCACAF, which qualify teams through continental championships. The hosts Costa Rica, Jamaica, Mexico, and the United States qualified automatically for the tournament, leaving most of the remaining FIFA member associations eligible to enter qualification if they chose to do so.

AFC (Asia): TBD CAF (Africa): TBD CONCACAF (North America, Central America and the Caribbean): TBD (including co-hosts Costa Rica, Jamaica, Mexico, and the United States) CONMEBOL (South America): TBD OFC (Oceania): TBD UEFA (Europe): TBD

Qualified teams

TeamQualified asQualification dateAppearancein finalsLastappearanceConsecutivestreakPrevious best performance Co-hosts 10th/11th 2023/2027 1/11 4th/5th 2015/2027 1/2 3rd/4th 2023/2027 1/3 3rd/4th 2023/2027 1/4

Marketing Broadcasting

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UEFA boycott On July 30, 2026, following FIFA's announcement of FIFA Forward Enterprise (a proposal to sell stakes in FIFA's tournament operations, including for the FIFA Women's World Cup, to private investors), all 55 UEFA member associations agreed to an indefinite boycott of FIFA competitions until the proposal was shelved and assurances were made that such a proposal would not be re-introduced. A day later, the proposal was scrapped, although UEFA stated that, regardless, it no longer trusts FIFA's governance. UEFA provisionally suspended its boycott on August 26 following written assurances that a similar proposal would not be brought up in the future, though the UEFA Executive Committee will monitor events and reinstate the boycott if deemed necessary.

Notes

See also 2030 FIFA World Cup

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