Sports: England to host 2025 women’s World Cup

England has been confirmed as the hosts for in 2025 the Women’s livescore mobi World Cup.

World Rugby Council also unanimously approved Australia as host of both the male World Cup in 2027 and the women’s World Cup in 2029.

The United States will host the men’s championship at first in 2031. The same will be the case for the women’s in 2033.

Rugby Football Union said it would like 2025 to turn out to be”the “best watched” female World Cup and aims to get Twickenham’s 82,000 capacity seats filled for the championship match.

This year’s World Cup hosted in England was the men’s tournament in 2015.

It’s the first time that World Rugby has announced the five upcoming World Cup hosts at the same time, something that chair Sir Bill Beaumont said provided “unprecedented certain”.

World Cup will ‘advance all sports for women’

England has won ladies’ World Cup twice and lost in the final five times.

The Women’s World Cup will expand from 12 to 16 teams for the first time in 2025. the RFU has already formulated plans to be able to fill Twickenham with teams for the last.

England beat attendance goals established as part of the program for the 2022 Women’s Six Nations when they received record attendances in consecutive years.

A score of 14,689 was established in Gloucester before it was broken by the next game, after 15,836 fans watched England defeat Ireland at Leicester.

RFU will host matches at locations across the nation and intends to use the event to enhance facilities, attract women coaches as well as referees as well as increase the number of fans and participation.

England captain Sue Day, now the RFU’s chief operating and financial officer, has said that hosting will “create lasting memories to women’s sports” and “further enhance all women’s sports”.

The Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries announced that PS30m will be put into the tournament by 2025, as the government makes use of the tournament “as an opportunity to motivate more girls and women to take part in sports”.

The President’s support

The USA Rugby statement said being chosen to be World Cup hosts in 2031 and 2033 “marks an important moment for this game”.

The president Joe Biden had written to World Rugby offering his backing for the US bid. NFL as well as Major League Soccer stadiums are in the process of hosting matches.

USA Rugby chief executive Ross Young hopes staging the tournaments will “create long-lasting, sustainable enthusiasm and enthusiasm for the game all the way from coast to coast”.

World Rugby chief executive Alan Gilpin said he hoped that the men’s championship could be expanded from 20 teams to 24 in 2031. This suggests that it could become a possibility for 2027’s edition.

It is expected that hosting two World Cups in Australia in the span time of 2 years can increase declines in participation within the country.

Rugby Australia chief executive Andy Marinos said the announcement signified “the beginning of a brand new period of Australian cricket”.

The possibility of Australia being the host of the British and Irish Lions in 2025 and the sevens competitions at the 2032 Olympics the country is expected to become “the central point of rugby in the next 10 years”.

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