The FIFA He announced the settings for the game system of the Women's World Cup of seniors and one of them is the Increase in classifying quotas from the 2031 edition.
After the recent successes with the WomenIanni Infantino made that decision to leave behind the 32 participants to now open quota to 48 nations.
The highest entity explained that everything was agreed with the different affiliated confederations and their respective federations, in search of being offered to female teams and players access to the elite competition and accelerating investment in women's football worldwide.
The FIFA Women’s World Cup is set to become bigger and more inclusive 🌏🏆
In a historic decision for the game, the FIFA council has unanimously decided that from 2031 onwards, the FIFA Women’s World Cup will see 48 teams competing against one another for the very first time.
– FIFA (@fifacom) May 9, 2025
Measures against abuse against them
Similarly, FIFA emphasized that it modified some regulations to have more protection from the players, in case they receive racist abuses or accusations, so there was an increase in fines for insults of that nature, in which the protagonists themselves, together with the judges they can help identify people who perpetrate racist abuses), disciplinary codes of the member associations and thus the FIFA can intervene in cases. Give those abuses.
It should be remembered that this will be the first time that there are 48 quotas for the women's World Cup, so the 2027 appointment in Brazil will be the second and last with 32 selections participating.
For now, they did not announce how many quotas each Confederation affiliated with FIFA will have, but surely Conmebol will have some benefit for the constant evolution of its selections, so Colombia could be benefited by that news, because before it had achieved three participations with a more limited number for South America, so that new modification would be a relief for Colombian women's football.
