{"id":124590,"date":"2022-12-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pressarabia.qa\/?guid=06265c0243cb815a3d92054325269e07"},"modified":"2022-12-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T00:00:00","slug":"saudi-arabia-now-only-bidder-for-soccers-2027-asian-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressarabia.qa\/saudi-arabia-now-only-bidder-for-soccers-2027-asian-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia now only bidder for soccer’s 2027 Asian Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"
Kuala Lumpur, Saudi Arabia is now the only candidate to host the 2027 Asian Cup after India\u2019s soccer federation withdrew its bid on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Preparing for the month-long tournament can let Saudi Arabia show its soccer hosting ambitions to FIFA, which is seeking bidders for the 2030 World Cup and future editions of a revamped Club World Cup, AP reports.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Asian Football Confederation said the Saudi Arabian bid would be the only one presented to congress members for approval. That will be at a Feb. 1 meeting in Manama, Bahrain.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
No reason was given for India\u2019s withdrawal, though the federation has been in turmoil and was briefly suspended by FIFA this year before staging the Under-17 Women\u2019s World Cup in October.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Saudi Arabia has never hosted the Asian Cup, which it has won three times since the inaugural event in 1956. The most recent title was in 1996.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Hosting the 2027 edition shaped to be a blockbuster contest when Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran, India and Uzbekistan initially submitted bids more than two years ago.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Qatar was awarded the 2023 edition in October after China handed back its hosting rights, citing the COVID-19 pandemic. That tournament is expected to be pushed back to January 2024.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The 2027 Asian Cup will become the fourth in five editions to be hosted in the Arabian Gulf region.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: Bahrain News Agency<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kuala Lumpur, Saudi Arabia is now the only candidate to host the 2027 Asian Cup after India\u2019s soccer federation withdrew its bid on Monday. Preparing for the month-long tournament can let Saudi Arabia show its soccer hosting ambitions to FIFA, which is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n