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FIFA mentioned on Thursday that the 2023 Ladies’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand shall be going forward as scheduled after a European report floated the opportunity of postponement.

French publication L’Equipe wrote on Thursday that FIFA had been involved with a number of main European footballing our bodies to debate the deserves of suspending the 2023 Ladies’s World Cup for quite a lot of months.

Just like the 2022 Males’s World Cup set to be staged in Qatar from November to December, this might outcome within the WWC happening within the European winter and Australian summer season.

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Nonetheless, although a FIFA spokesperson would not touch upon the L’Equipe story when contacted, they informed ESPN that the dates for the 2023 WWC remained unchanged.

“After a profitable ‘One 12 months to Go’ occasion, the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup 2023 is scheduled to kick off on 20 July 2023,” a FIFA spokesperson informed ESPN. “No adjustments to the dates of the competitors are foreseen.”

The 2023 event is scheduled to start on July 20 at Auckland’s Eden Park and the ultimate is ready to be performed on Aug. 20 at Sydney’s Stadium Australia, with tickets set to go on sale this October. The draw for the event may even happen this October in Auckland.

Any change in dates, in keeping with L’Equipe, would enable extra beneficial circumstances comparable to further daylight throughout the staging of the event.

Such a transfer would additionally assist create extra beneficial circumstances for broadcasters, with the report claiming that FIFA had obtained bids considerably beneath the €20 million it had collected for the 2019 event when taking the rights to market in France.

Final week, event organisers staged a collection of occasions marking one yr to go till the event’s graduation, together with a cultural lighting ceremony within the New Zealand metropolis of Hamilton and the disclosing of a “Unity Pitch” gifted to Sydney in Australia.

“Immediately is a good day within the build-up to the ninth version of the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup,” FIFA secretary common Fatma Samoura mentioned on the occasions.

A Soccer Australia spokesperson, in the meantime, informed ESPN that they’d no data of any talks surrounding the potential postponement of subsequent yr’s event.

It mentioned: “Following latest ‘One 12 months To Go’ celebrations throughout Australia and New Zealand, Soccer Australia continues to plan in the direction of the FIFA Ladies’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023 kicking off in July subsequent yr as scheduled.”

Supply: espn.co.uk