The ladies’s World Cup will probably be expanded from 32 to 48 groups from the 2031 version onwards after the FIFA Council accepted the proposal at a digital assembly on Friday.
The 48-team World Cup will undertake a 12-group format, rising the whole variety of matches from 64 to 104 – the identical because the expanded males’s World Cup in 2026, and lengthening the match by one week.
The internet hosting necessities for the 2031 and 2035 editions of the FIFA Girls’s World Cup have been tailored accordingly.
FIFA will additional have interaction with the stakeholders concerned within the session course of to deal with their suggestions.
“This isn’t nearly having 16 extra groups taking part in within the FIFA Girls’s World Cup however taking the subsequent steps in relation to the ladies’s sport typically by making certain that extra FIFA Member Associations have the possibility to learn from the match to develop their girls’s soccer constructions from a holistic perspective,” mentioned FIFA President Gianni Infantino.
The FIFA Council equally accepted the FIFA Technique for Motion for Afghan Girls’s Soccer, which foresees the institution of the Afghan girls’s refugee workforce (AWRT) and supplies the FIFA administration with a mandate to organise and facilitate its operations to start out its actions as quickly as attainable.
FIFA is participating instantly with the related gamers.
The revised version of the FIFA Disciplinary Code (FDC) has additionally been unanimously accepted by the FIFA Council. It features a complete set of proactive regulatory measures geared toward countering discriminatory behaviour each on and off the pitch.
