{"id":48515,"date":"2025-05-14T17:51:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=48515"},"modified":"2025-05-14T17:51:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:51:49","slug":"infantino-saudi-arabia-is-doing-an-exceptional-job-developing-womens-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/infantino-saudi-arabia-is-doing-an-exceptional-job-developing-womens-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Infantino: Saudi Arabia Is Doing an Exceptional Job Developing Women&#8217;s Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gianni Infantino, President of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), said on Tuesday at the 2025 Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum in Riyadh that FIFA aims to generate $1 billion in revenue from the Women\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 Women\u2019s World Cup, hosted by Australia and New Zealand, generated over $570 million in profit.<\/p>\n<p>Infantino stated: \u201cWomen\u2019s football and the participation of women in the sport are of critical importance. It is also growing significantly, and we aim to generate $1 billion in revenue through the Women\u2019s World Cup alone to reinvest in women\u2019s sports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brazil will host the next edition of the Women\u2019s World Cup in 2027, marking the first time the tournament will be held in South America.<\/p>\n<p>The United States is close to securing the hosting rights for the 2031 edition, which will be expanded to include 48 teams instead of 32.<\/p>\n<p>Infantino also said that football has enormous potential to generate more revenue outside of Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gianni Infantino, President of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), said on Tuesday at the 2025 Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum in Riyadh that FIFA aims to generate $1 billion in revenue from the Women\u2019s World Cup. The 2023 Women\u2019s World Cup, hosted by Australia and New Zealand, generated over $570 million in profit. Infantino stated: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48516,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48515\/revisions\/48516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}