The United States Soccer Federation is partnering with Mexico, Costa Rica and Jamaica in its bid to host the 2031 Women’s World Cup. The federation formally announced the plans on Monday at a news conference in Manhattan and noted it would be the “largest Women’s World Cup in history” if the uncontested bid was picked.

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...