{"id":600298,"date":"2025-11-29T01:12:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T01:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/600298\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T01:12:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T01:12:37","slug":"lionesses-success-hailed-as-bristol-may-be-world-cup-host-city-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/600298\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionesses&#8217; success hailed as Bristol may be World Cup host city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A bid for Bristol to be one of the host cities of the 2035 Women&#8217;s Football World Cup was backed by city councillors in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It comes after Ashton Gate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c7v1n8z91pqo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">staged four knockout games<\/a> as part of the Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup in the summer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ross Wormald, chief operating officer at Ashton Gate, said:  &#8220;We are honoured to be included in the UK bid and have worked hard with the city-wide Bristol team to put forward a compelling case for Ashton Gate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Tony Dyer, leader of Bristol City Council, said: &#8220;We fully back the bid to bring the FIFA Women&#8217;s World Cup 2035 to the UK in what would be one of the most inclusive, welcoming and inspiring events our country has witnessed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fifa will make a decision on the UK&#8217;s bid by April 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will then decide on the final selection of host cities in 2030, with Leeds, Birmingham and Nottingham also in the running. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bid for Bristol to be one of the host cities of the 2035 Women&#8217;s Football World Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-600298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115630331907907358","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600298","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=600298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}