{"id":2063,"date":"2024-05-16T15:00:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T09:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:00:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T09:15:52","slug":"australia-to-host-2026-afc-womens-asian-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/australia-to-host-2026-afc-womens-asian-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia to host 2026 AFC Women&#8217;s Asian Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Football Australia (FA) has celebrated the country being awarded the hosting rights for the 2026 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women&#8217;s Asian Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The AFC Executive Committee on Wednesday officially ratified the recommendation of the AFC Women&#8217;s Football Committee that Australia host the 2026 tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 FIFA Women&#8217;s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand broke attendance records for the tournament, and FIFA President Gianni Infantino described it as the best ever Women&#8217;s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Matches for the 12-team 2026 Women&#8217;s Asian Cup will take place in the states of New South Wales (NSW), Queensland and Western Australia (WA), all of which hosted World Cup games, including a semifinal and the final at Sydney&#8217;s Stadium Australia in NSW.<\/p>\n<p>Australia last hosted the Women&#8217;s Asian Cup in 2006 when the national women&#8217;s team, the Matildas, made the final for the first time but lost to China on penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Australia went on to win the tournament for the first time in 2010 and made the final again in 2014 and 2018 but were defeated by Japan on both occasions.<\/p>\n<p>The Matildas are currently on a streak of playing in front of 12 consecutive sell-out crowds in Australia and will next play warm-ups with China in Adelaide on May 31 and in Sydney on June 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Football Australia (FA) has celebrated the country being awarded the hosting rights for the 2026 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women&#8217;s Asian Cup. The AFC Executive Committee on Wednesday officially ratified the recommendation of the AFC Women&#8217;s Football Committee that Australia host the 2026 tournament. The 2023 FIFA Women&#8217;s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2065,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2063\/revisions\/2065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}