--- title: "The US is on course to co-host the 2031 Women's World Cup, with LA in the mix" description: "The United States is set to co-host the 2031 FIFA Women's World Cup as part of a North American and Caribbean bid, a U.S. official said, all but assuring the tournament returns to American soil. Los Angeles venues, fresh off the 2026 men's World Cup, are in line to be part of it." category: "Sports" category_url: https://herald.la/category/sports author: "Julian Mercado" published: 2026-07-17T06:56:00.000Z updated: 2026-07-17T06:56:00.000Z canonical: https://herald.la/article/the-us-is-on-course-to-co-host-the-2031-women-s-world-cup-with-la-in-the-mix tags: ["womens world cup", "fifa", "2031", "soccer", "los angeles"] --- # The US is on course to co-host the 2031 Women's World Cup, with LA in the mix The United States is set to co-host the 2031 FIFA Women's World Cup as part of a North American and Caribbean bid, a U.S. official said, all but assuring the tournament returns to American soil. Los Angeles venues, fresh off the 2026 men's World Cup, are in line to be part of it. The world's biggest women's soccer tournament is on track to return to the United States. A U.S. official said this week that the country will host the 2031 FIFA Women's World Cup, reaffirming a bid that has effectively no competition and now awaits only a formal vote to become official. ## The bid, and the timeline The United States is leading a [regional bid to co-host the 2031 tournament alongside Concacaf partners](https://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2025/04/us-set-to-cohost-2031-fifa-womens-world-cup), among them Mexico, Costa Rica and Jamaica. Because it is the only bid on the table, its approval is widely treated as a formality, though FIFA is not scheduled to make the award official until its congress later in 2026. Once confirmed, it would be the first Women's World Cup co-hosted by more than two nations, and the first expanded to 48 teams, a jump from 32 that would swell the tournament to more than 100 matches. ## The Los Angeles angle For Los Angeles, the tournament would be a chance to do it all again. The region is deep into hosting duties for the 2026 men's World Cup, with SoFi Stadium in Inglewood among the U.S. venues, and its stadiums are [in line to feature in 2031 as well](https://laist.com/brief/news/los-angeles-activities/womens-world-cup-could-be-come-to-la-in-2031). SoFi, the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson have all been floated as potential hosts, part of a broad list of U.S. stadiums, many of them already being used for the men's tournament, [proposed to carry the women's event](https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/47129146/fifa-womens-world-cup-2031-host-stadiums-usa-mexico). ## Why it matters A U.S.-hosted Women's World Cup carries real weight for the sport in this country, which has one of the world's most successful women's national teams and a deep, if uneven, professional and youth game. The 1999 Women's World Cup, played in the United States, is often credited with a lasting boost to women's soccer here; organizers hope 2031, on a far larger scale, can do the same for a new generation. The timing, too, is neat. With the men's final of the 2026 tournament set for this weekend and Los Angeles already in the global soccer spotlight, the prospect of the women's game returning to the same marquee stages, five years on, cements Southern California's growing role as a center of the sport. The formalities remain, but the direction is now clear: the Women's World Cup is coming back to the United States. ## Sources - [US set to co-host 2031 FIFA Women's World Cup](https://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2025/04/us-set-to-cohost-2031-fifa-womens-world-cup) - [Women's World Cup 2031: US proposes host stadiums](https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/47129146/fifa-womens-world-cup-2031-host-stadiums-usa-mexico) - [The Women's World Cup could come to LA in 2031](https://laist.com/brief/news/los-angeles-activities/womens-world-cup-could-be-come-to-la-in-2031)