FIFA, soccer’s global governing body, has announced that Nu Stadium, the home venue of Major League Soccer side Inter Miami, will host the final phase of its Champions Cup women’s club competition.
The second edition of the competition will be held as a four-team event next January, with Inter Miami’s newly opened stadium to stage the semi-finals, third-place playoff match, and final.
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The final is set to take place on January 31, with the dates for the semi-finals still to be announced.
FC Barcelona (UEFA) and Club America (Concacaf) have already qualified for the 2027 Champions Cup semi-finals and will be joined by the champions of Conmebol's Libertadores Femenina.
Auckland United (OFC) and Naegohyang (AFC) will play in a preliminary qualifying round, and the winner will face the CAF Women’s Champions League winner for the final place.
The 26,700-capacity Nu Stadium opened in April and hosted its first international friendly between Haiti and Peru in June. The venue and Inter Miami’s other facilities were also used by 11 nations during the men’s 2026 World Cup, which took place across the US, Canada, and Mexico.
Iñigo Aznar, chief revenue officer of Inter Miami CF and Nu Stadium, said: “Our vision is to build on the momentum we have created in South Florida and establish Miami and Nu Stadium as one of the world’s great stages for sports and entertainment.
“Hosting the final phase of the FIFA Women’s Champions Cup 2027 is another important step in that journey, bringing the champions of the world’s leading confederations and some of the best women’s footballers on the planet to our new home.
“We look forward to welcoming fans from Miami and around the world for an unforgettable celebration of the game.”
The Champions Cup, launched last year, is contested by the reigning continental champions from each confederation – UEFA (Europe), CAF (Africa), Concacaf (North, Central America and Caribbean), Conmebol (South America), OFC (Oceania), and AFC (Asia) – in a calendar year.
The inaugural edition of the Champions Cup was staged in London, England, between January 28 and February 1, featuring Arsenal (England), winners of the UEFA Women’s Champions League, ASFAR (Morocco), winners of the CAF Champions League, Concacaf champions Gotham FC (US), and Conmebol champions SC Corinthians (Brazil).
The semi-finals were held at Brentford’s G-Tech Community Stadium, while the final and third-placed playoff took place at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium.
The main rights holder for the inaugural edition was sports streaming service DAZN, which provided free-to-air coverage in most territories, excluding the home markets of the four teams involved – the UK, Morocco, the US, and Brazil – as well as China.
Coverage in the UK and Ireland was provided by pay-TV giant Sky Sports, while CazeTV, the sports streaming channel run by YouTuber Casemiro Miguel, picked up rights in Brazil.
In the US, CBS Sports aired the third-place play-off and final match exclusively, while DAZN acquired rights to the semi-finals. Public broadcasters SNRT and CCTV showed the competition in Morocco and China, respectively.
The competition has been touted as the forerunner to a full Women's Club World Cup, which FIFA will launch in 2028 and will take place every four years, with the slimmed-down Champions Cup to be held in the other three years of each cycle.
The first Women’s Club World Cup is set to feature Arsenal, Gotham FC, and Wuhan Jiangda as part of the 16-team lineup, with the tournament staged every four years.
