{"id":496004,"date":"2025-10-13T11:26:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T11:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/496004\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T11:26:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T11:26:16","slug":"birmingham-council-incredibly-excited-to-potentially-host-matches-for-2035-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/496004\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Council ‘incredibly excited’ to potentially host matches for 2035 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Birmingham Council says it wants to show how \u201cready and enthusiastic\u201d it is to play a role in the Women’s World Cup<\/p>\n

Alexander Brock<\/strong> Local Democracy Reporter<\/p>\n

11:38, 13 Oct 2025<\/p>\n

\"England'sEngland’s Lionesses(Image: Peter Byrne\/PA Wire)<\/p>\n

Birmingham City Council has said it is \u201cincredibly excited\u201d to potentially be one of the host cities for the Women\u2019s Football World Cup in 2035.<\/p>\n

The tournament is set to be held in the UK after Fifa president Gianni Infantino confirmed it was the sole \u201cvalid\u201d bidder for the sporting event.<\/p>\n

It has now been revealed this week that Birmingham<\/a> Council has plans to show how \u201cready and enthusiastic\u201d it is to play a role in the World Cup.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re incredibly excited about the possibility of being part of the FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup in 2035,\u201d a council spokesperson told the Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe power of women\u2019s football to inspire communities, celebrate diversity, and create lasting legacies is something we\u2019re passionate about.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhilst we\u2019re proud to be considered as a potential host city, we fully respect that if the UK is successful in its bid to host the tournament, it will be FIFA who decides which host cities are selected.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor now, we\u2019re focused on showing how ready and enthusiastic we are to play our part in what could be a truly historic event.\u201d<\/p>\n

The UK\u2019s bid to host the Women\u2019s World Cup will be discussed by Birmingham Council cabinet members at a special meeting on Monday, October 20.<\/p>\n

\"AA visualisation of what the redevelopment of Villa Park’s North Stand could look like in Birmingham(Image: Design document prepared by Grimshaw Architects on behalf of Aston Villa Football Club.)<\/p>\n

The Labour<\/a>-run council has not said yet which stadium could potentially host matches if Birmingham does end up being a host city in the tournament.<\/p>\n

But Villa Park<\/a> is set to be one of several stadiums across the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland where the 2028 Men\u2019s Euros could be held.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is estimated that the tournament will generate almost \u00a3190 million of socio-economic benefits for Birmingham and the wider West Midlands,\u201d a previous council report said.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year in April, FA chief executive officer Mark Bullingham said: \u201cWe are honoured to be the sole bidder for the FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup 2035.<\/p>\n

\u201cHosting England\u2019s first FIFA World Cup since 1966, along with our home nations partners, will be very special.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe hard work starts now to put together the best possible bid by the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Infantino added: \u201cI can confirm that, as part of the bidding process, we received one bid for 2031 and one valid bid for 2035. The 2035 bid is from Europe from the Home Nations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe path is there for the Women\u2019s World Cup to be taking place in 2031 and 2035 with some great countries in some great nations to boost even more the women\u2019s football movement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Birmingham Council says it wants to show how \u201cready and enthusiastic\u201d it is to play a role in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,984,748,393,4884,528,285,16,15,18874],"class_list":{"0":"post-496004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-city-council","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-labour-party","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-villa-park-stadium"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115366618374994784","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}