Australia and New Zealand named hosts of 2023 Women's World Cup
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26 June, 2020, 06:05 pm
Last modified: 26 June, 2020, 06:09 pm
Their joint proposal beat a rival bid from Colombia to host the tournament which is being expanded to 32 teams.
Australia and New Zealand were handed the right to host the 2023 Women's World Cup soccer tournament by a comfortable margin after a vote by the Fifa Council on Thursday.
Their joint proposal beat a rival bid from Colombia to host the tournament which is being expanded to 32 teams.
Japan, who had also put forward a bid to stage the event, pulled out on Monday after they were ranked below the joint bid by world governing body Fifa's evaluation report.
The report highlighted the infrastructure and organisational advantages of the Australia/New Zealand bid which Fifa believed would make for a commercially successful tournament.
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