For the second straight time, the World Lacrosse Men’s World Championship will be changing locations, but this time under very different circumstances.

Manchester, England was the original site for the 2018 men’s world championship, but withdrew its bid due to financial concerns. The championship moved to Netanya, Israel with the Israel Lacrosse Association hosting a successful 46-team event, the largest in the sports’ history.

On Friday, World Lacrosse announced that the organizing committee for the 2022 World Lacrosse Men’s World Championship was withdrawing its bid to host the event in Coquitlam, British Columbia.

Coquitlam has successfully hosted men’s U19 world championships in the past, but stepped away due to an opportunity presented to World Lacrosse to raise the profile of the event. The organizing committee learned that another organization with additional capacity and the ability to stage the event in a major media market has expressed interest in hosting the tournament.

“Our driving impetus for this decision is the opportunity to allow for the game to receive maximum exposure in a major market as lacrosse looks to return to the Olympic Games,” said outgoing tournament chair Cliff Pascas in the release issued jointly by the Coquitlam Organizing Committee for the 2022 World Lacrosse Men’s World Championship, the Canadian Lacrosse Association and World Lacrosse.

“Our committee believes we would have done a first-class job hosting this tournament, but with the opportunity ahead and a company with a full-time staff capacity and access to a major population center, we feel it is in the best interest of the sport to allow it to stand on the biggest stage,” Pascas said. “We all love the sport of lacrosse, and we recognize the tremendous opportunity that exists to have a world championship played in a major television market at this time in the history of the sport; this is a potential watershed moment.”

The release said that World Lacrosse would provide additional details in the near future.