Global soccer's governing body FIFA has now taken its media rights sales processes covering the next two World Cups - one men's, and one women's - to Myanmar.

Two tenders went live in the Southeast Asian market yesterday - one for the men's 2026 FIFA World Cup, to be held across Mexico, the US, and Canada between June 11 and July 19, and the other covering the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup being staged in Brazil, the first time that tournament will take place in South America.

The submission deadline for bids - covering both sets of rights - is 10 AM Central European Time on October 14.

Interested entities can request the invitation to tender (ITT) documents by contacting fwc26-media-rights@fifa.org and fwwc2027-media-rights@fifa.org, respectively.

The last men's World Cup, which took place in 2022 in Qatar, was shown in Myanmar by pay-TV satellite broadcaster SkyNet.

For the 2026 World Cup, Myanmar were eliminated from the Asian qualifying schedule at the second round, coming bottom of a four-team qualification group also containing Japan, North Korea, and Syria.

They have also already been eliminated from the 2027 Women's World Cup qualifying process.

Indeed, Myanmar has never qualified for a FIFA World Cup, men's or women's.

This process has been launched following a similar one in the Indian subcontinent, also covering the 2026 and 2027 World Cups (as well as the 2030 men's tournament), going live in late July.

Those tenders stretch across India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, and the bidding deadline was September 2.