Los Angeles – Commissioner National Women Soccer League Jessica Berman said Espn that she expected the league to play games over next year World Cup of Men FIFAthat will be the host of the United States.
“I do not expect to write down the World Men’s World Championship,” Berman said.
Berman said that Details of NWSL plans for the next summer must be intended.
“We’ll figure it out,” Berman Espn said. “In the next few months, we should have a clarity about what we will do.
“Everything is on the table now. I don’t have an answer to” what “. We will do something that it is, where it is, how it happens is still in the works. ”
MLS that loses divorced players to their national teams for a tournament, will break at the World Championship in 2026.
The 2026 World Cup will be held from 11 to 19 July next year, the longest World Championship, for the first time to expand to 48 teams. Falls right in the middle of a typical Ns season.
While the competition will be a host of Canada and Mexico, 11 of the 16 host cities for the tournament are in the United States. Only one of these places, Seattle’s Lumen Field, is currently used by the NWSL team, although in 2026 in 2026 the host city markets of the World Cup in 2026 NWSL teams in 2026 World Cup city markets.
Training areas for four NWSL teams – Houston Dash, KANSAS CITY CURRENT, Racing Louisville FC and Utah Royals – They have different levels of overlapping with basic camps that will use the World Championship teams.
FIFA requires a period of “exclusive use” for stadiums and training sites that stretch for tournament data. The stadiums are blocked from use without a tournament for 30 days before the first match at the venue.
For training, this exclusive window is 14 days before the opening match until one day after the last match of the national team, which selects the venue. The fields at the training site are blocked from the use of 28 days before the opening match. This exclusivity window could take almost two months.
These teams will have to find an alternative solution that could include the use of other local places or their stadiums as a base, because none of these stadiums is used for the World Cup 2026.
For example, Racing Louisville uses the Lynn family stadium instead of its training area as a team base due to floods in the city. The “exclusive use” of the device could allow some NWSL teams to stay if the device is separated. For example, the dashes are trained in Houston Sports Park, but across the street from MLS ‘Houston Dynamo.
Last year, NWSL stopped regular season for most of July and August due to the Olympics. This was done by a crossover competition with the Mexican MX FEMENIL League. The tournament tried to get traction and was eliminated after the first year.
This year the League will suspend its regular season throughout July due to more female continental championships. Teams are expected to play individual friendly matches during this time.
“Part of the challenge we have is to find out literal logistics about how we do our business with the background of the World Men’s Cup in so many of our markets, and that is the process we are going through,” Berman said.
Summer planning is an annual challenge for NWSL. The World Cup World Club this summer includes games at three NWSL Team Stadiums stadiums. There is another Women’s World Cup In Brazil in 2027, followed by the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028.
Last week, FIFA announced that the US submitted a lone offer to host the 2031 World Championship. The US football CEO of JT Batson said the Federation supports the expansion of the World Women’s Cup to 48 teams in 2031.
