FIFA Cancels 2021 U-17 Women's World Cup in India

NewsBharati    18-Nov-2020 15:45:27 PM
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New Delhi, November 18: Following the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, FIFA- International Federation of Association Football announced that they have canceled the Women’s Under-17 World Cup which was supposed to be held in India in 2021.
 
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However, India has been given the opportunity to host the tournament's next edition, which will be held in 2022.
 
 
Apart from the U-17 FIFA also canceled U-20 World Cup which was scheduled to be held in Costa Rica however it also has given the chance to host the 2022 U19 Women's World Cup.
 
"Since the previous decision earlier this year to reschedule both tournaments to early 2021, FIFA has been consulting with all stakeholders. As a result and after careful consideration of the feedback received by the stakeholders combined with the inability to further postpone these tournaments, with the inability to further postpone these tournaments, the FIFA-Confederations COVID-19 Working Group subsequently recommended that the 2020 editions of the two women’s youth tournaments be canceled and that the hosting rights for the 2022 editions be offered to the countries that were due to host the 2020 editions,” the FIFA said in a statement.
 
 
 
 
It further added that “… following further consultation between FIFA and the respective host member associations regarding the 2022 editions of the tournaments, the Bureau of the Council has approved Costa Rica as host of the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup 2022 and India as host of the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup 2022 respectively.”
 
Responding to the news President of All India Football Federation (AIFF), Praful Patel said that they will continue to make developments in women’s football in India as they plan for the U17 Women’s World Cup in 2022.
 
He said "In light of not being able to host the tournament next year, FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup taking place in India in 2022 comes as a delightful silver lining. Following discussions with FIFA, we agreed that hosting the tournament without proper qualifications and without spectators led to more uncertainty, and it would have taken away from our objective of developing and promoting women’s football by hosting the competition in such circumstances.”
 
This was the second time U-17 World Cup was postponed due to the epidemic. FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup was originally scheduled to be held in five venues in India from November 2 to November 21, 2020, but it was pushed to February 17 to March 7, 2021, because of the pandemic.
FIFA has also announced that the Club World Cup 2020 which was to be held in Qatar in December 2020 will be postponed to February 1 to 11, 2021.