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Hong Kong should bid to co-host the 2031 Fifa Women’s World Cup with Macau and Greater Bay Area cities, Fok says
- City delegate told NPC there were enough facilities in Kai Tak Sports Park and Guangzhou Nansha Urban Sports Complex to meet needs of the competition
- Fok also suggested a Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Sports Bay Area should be established, akin to the likes of New York, San Francisco and Tokyo
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Hong Kong, Macau and cities in the Greater Bay Area should launch a bid to co-host the Fifa Women’s World Cup in 2031, Kenneth Fok Kai-kong told the National People’s Congress (NPC) on Tuesday.
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Fok, one of the city’s delegates to China’s top legislature, said Saudi Arabia’s position as sole bidder for the men’s version in 2034 made a joint bid “more feasible”, and highlighted the facilities already available in the region.
China has hosted the tournament twice before; the inaugural competition in 1991, and again in 2007.
In a document submitted to the NPC session in Beijing, Fok said there was less chance of the men’s version returning to Asia in the foreseeable future, because of Fifa’s rotation policy.
The NPC session is part of the key annual meetings of the top legislature and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the country’s top advisory body, with the two gatherings commonly known as the “two sessions”, or lianghui.
“With the Greater Bay Area co-hosting the National Games in 2025, we have enough facilities in Kai Tak Sports Park and Guangzhou Nansha Urban Sports Complex to meet the needs of competition,” he wrote.
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