Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand ‘could be POSTPONED by several months’ next year

FIFA has moved rapidly to quash studies the Girls’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand in 2023 may very well be postponed to appease broadcasters in Europe.

The French newspaper L’Équipe reported late on Thursday that FIFA and European soccer our bodies had held casual talks about delaying the match.

In consequence, the match can be performed throughout summertime in Australia and New Zealand, and through wintertime in Europe.

The match is at the moment scheduled to be held between July 20 and August 20 subsequent 12 months, throughout wintertime within the host international locations.

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The discussions have reportedly come about on the behest of broadcasters, with the present scheduling of the World Cup to see income drop to under the degrees of the 2019 Girls’s World Cup in France.

Time zone variations will already see matches performed late at evening and early within the morning in Europe, whereas winter is historically a drop-off interval for scores as effectively.

In response to the report by L’Équipe, FIFA mentioned ‘no adjustments are foreseen’ to the dates. 

‘After a profitable ‘One Yr to Go’ occasion, the FIFA Girls’s World Cup 2023 is scheduled to kick off on 20 July 2023. No adjustments to the dates of the competitors are foreseen,’ a FIFA spokesperson mentioned in a press release.

In Sydney final week, FIFA secretary-general Fatma Samoura didn’t trace at a postponement, and neither did the match’s chief working officer Jane Fernandez.

‘A lot effort has gone into getting thus far. And we simply cannot wait to kick it off,’ Fernandez mentioned.

‘The purpose is all the time to do issues higher, to take this match to the subsequent degree – we wish to see 1.5 million attendees at our matches, we wish to have over 1.5 billion folks watching as effectively.’

Mary Fowler is tackled by Katie Bowen in the course of the Worldwide pleasant match between the Australian Matildas and the New Zealand Soccer Ferns at QCB Stadium in Townsville

Any potential transfer to the southern hemisphere summer season may have main ramifications for scheduling and participant security with temperatures set to soar underneath the Australian solar.

Australia equalled its hottest day on report earlier this 12 months after the distant coastal city of Onslow in Western Australia reported temperatures of fifty.7C (123.26F).

Participant security is measured by wet-bulb globe temperature (WBGT) in soccer which takes under consideration temperature, humidity, wind velocity and different components that may affect gamers.

The present FIFA warmth coverage contains suggestions that drinks breaks are held when the WBGT reaches 32C whereas Soccer Australia pointers can see matches postponed or cancelled when the WBGT reaches 28C.