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The Australian government will offer financial backing for the country’s bid to host the 2023 women’s soccer World Cup, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Tuesday.
The government will back the bid to the tune of A$1 million initially with another A$4 million available if it looks like being successful.
The Australian women’s national team, dubbed ‘the Matildas’, are currently ranked eighth and reached the World Cup quarter-finals for the third successive tournament in Canada in 2015.
Colombia, Japan, New Zealand and Thailand have all expressed interest in hosting the 2023 tournament but Australia’s experience of successfully staging major sporting events and the government backing would put them among the favourites.
The next women’s World Cup takes place in France in 2019.
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