Today, Monday, the Asian Football Confederation announced that four national associations have expressed interest in hosting the 2026 Asian Women’s Cup.
This came after the AFC invited its member associations to express their desire to host the 2026 Women’s Asian Cup before the July 31, 2022 deadline. Four national associations expressed their desire to host the most important tournament on the Asian continent for women. a team that includes the Saudi associations of Jordan, Australia and Uzbekistan.
The AFC has indicated on its website that it will work with all national federations wishing to host the tournament to submit the necessary documents for hosting in accordance with the nomination process, with a final decision to be made and announced during 2023. The 2026 AFC Women’s Cup is expected to build on the foundation. The great legacy of a tournament that has been expanded from eight to 12 teams as the last draw held in India this year was the largest in the history of the tournament in the last two decades and witnessed the largest delegation in the history of the tournament.
The latest edition also featured the largest number of refereeing teams in the tournament’s history, as it introduced the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system for the first time since the quarter-finals.
This year’s latest edition recorded the highest digital engagement numbers ever, with over 270 million impressions, 17 million interactions, and 74 million video views across multiple digital platforms at AFC.
Australia hosted the AFC Women’s Asian Cup in 2006, noting that the Australian team won the only title in the tournament’s history in China in 2010, while Uzbekistan will host the Asian Women’s Club Championship for the West this year and aim to be first. country in the Central Asian region to host the tournament. Jordan hosted the Women’s Asian Cup in 2018, and Saudi Arabia aims to become the second country in the West Asia region to host the tournament.
