The United States plans to co-host the 2031 World Cup with regional neighbors, the same structure being used for the men's championship next year. Mexico, Costa Rica and Jamaica were added Monday to the U.

For the first time, four countries are in line to co-host the most important women's stand-alone sporting event in the world, the Women's World Cup.

“This Women's World Cup will be equal in every sense of the word to a men's World Cup,” U.S. Soccer Federation president Cindy Parlow Cone said during a news conference, “not just in the number of te...