South America to launch qualifying tournament for Women's World Cup

Continental championships have historically served as qualifiers for the Ladies’s World Cup, aside from in Europe, where UEFA phases a separate qualifying match.

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13 December, 2024, 03:05 pm

Closing modified: 13 December, 2024, 03:05 pm

South The US to open qualifying match for Ladies's World Cup

South The US will change into the 2nd continent after Europe to preserve a qualifying match for the Ladies’s World Cup, after governing physique CONMEBOL announced plans for a contest initiating next year.

Continental championships have historically served as qualifiers for the Ladies’s World Cup, aside from in Europe, where UEFA phases a separate qualifying match.

“The novel competition might be played between 2025 and 2026, and might well perchance supply two relate berths and two play-off berths, besides to the one already occupied by Brazil, the host team for the next World Cup,” CONMEBOL said in a assertion on Thursday

The predominant version of the match will watch 9 teams compete in a spherical robin layout, with every team playing four fits at dwelling and 4 away.

The two teams that high the desk will qualify straight for the Ladies’s World Cup, while the third and fourth teams will whisk into FIFA’s intercontinental play-offs.

The next version of the Ladies’s World Cup is decided to kick off on June 24, 2027, with the final scheduled for July 25.