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World football ruling body, FIFA has stated that the bidding countries for the hosting right of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup final are not allowed to also bid to host the 2022 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup final at the same time.
Instead they are required to submit yet another bid different from the one they submitted for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
This much has been made known by FIFA in the document No.3 titled: Competition and Format contained in the Overview Document handed to Eight member associations that have confirmed their participation in the bidding process for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023, the first-ever edition of the tournament that will feature 32 teams.
According to a statement by FIFA, “It is important to note that this bidding process only relates to the final competition of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023. The FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup 2022 will not be awarded to the same host(s) and will be the subject of a separate bidding process, to commence at a later date.
The eight member associations have signified their intents to host are namely:
- Argentinian Football Association
- Football Federation Australia
- Brazilian Football Association
- Colombian Football Association
- Japan Football Association
- Korea Football Association (expressing interest in a joint bid with DPR Korea Football Association)
- New Zealand Football
- South African Football Association
FIFA has since dispatched the updated bidding and hosting documents to all eight member associations, which will have until December, 13, 2019 to submit their bid book, the signed hosting agreement and all other hosting and bidding documents to FIFA.
Up until the deadline for bid submissions, any member association wishing to join an existing bid will be permitted to do so provided that it also submits a bidding registration to FIFA.
Meanwhile, FIFA is set to conduct official inspections to the relevant member associations in January and February 2020 and the appointment of the host(s) is expected for May 2020.