2030 FIFA World Cup

2030 FIFA World Cup

Copa Mundial de la FIFA 2030 2030 كأس العالم لكرة القدم Coupe du Monde FIFA 2030 ⵜⴰⵇⴱⵓⵛⵜ ⵏ ⵓⵎⴰⴹⴰⵍ ⵏ FIFA 2030 Campeonato do Mundo da FIFA de 2030 FIFA Tembiesarái Yvypavẽ 2030
Tournament details
Host countries	Morocco Portugal Spain Anniversary match hosts: Argentina Paraguay Uruguay
Dates	8 June (in 64 months) – 21 July [1]
Teams	48 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	20 (including centenary match hosts) (in 20 host cities)
← 2026 2034 →

The 2030 FIFA World Cup will be the 24th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA.

For the first time, three countries from two continents will host the competition, with Morocco, Portugal, and Spain as host nations. Additionally, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay will host 3 games, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the FIFA World Cup, in particular, the first World Cup in Uruguay. ^[2] The first game, alongside a special centenary celebration, will be held in the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo, Uruguay. The second and third games will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Asunción, Paraguay, respectively. The rest of the games will be held in Spain, Morocco and Portugal. ^[3]

This will be the first World Cup held in North Africa as well as anywhere in Africa since 2010; in South America since 2014, as well as in Europe since 2018. In terms of the countries, this will be the first World Cup held in Morocco, Portugal, and Paraguay; Uruguay since the inaugural tournament in 1930; Argentina since 1978; Spain since 1982.

Host selection

Main articles: 2030 FIFA World Cup bids, Morocco–Portugal–Spain 2030 FIFA World Cup bid, Uruguay–Argentina–Chile–Paraguay 2030 FIFA World Cup bid, and Bulgaria–Greece–Romania–Serbia UEFA Euro 2028 and 2030 FIFA World Cup bid

FIFA launched the bidding process in 2022. ^{[4] [5]} Having hosted the 2022 and 2026 editions, members of AFC and CONCACAF cannot host the 2030 FIFA World Cup. ^{[6] [7]}

On 11 December 2024, FIFA confirmed that the 2030 World Cup will be jointly hosted by Spain, Portugal, and Morocco. This announcement was made alongside the decision to award the 2034 tournament to Saudi Arabia during an Extraordinary FIFA Congress meeting. ^[8]

2024 Extraordinary FIFA Congress 11 December 2024 – Zürich, Switzerland [note 1]
Nation	Round 1
Morocco,   Spain,   Portugal	Acclamation

Concerns

Fans, football officials, and environmental groups have responded to the selection of hosts for the 2030 World Cup by noting that travel between South America and Europe will expend considerable resources. They have also noted the issues for fans of teams that will play in Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, as well as the short amount of rest for players once they return to the main match sites in Iberia and Morocco. With the FIFA rotation system, CONCACAF (which will host the 2026 World Cup), CONMEBOL, UEFA, and CAF would be unable to bid, leaving 2034 open only for the AFC and OFC, leading to accusations that FIFA intentionally selected these countries, especially those in the CONMEBOL region, to ensure that Saudi Arabia, an AFC member with major human rights controversies, would win its bid unopposed. ^{[9] [10]}

Potential venues

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Location of the host cities of the 2030 FIFA World Cup

• Morocco
•  1  Agadir
•  2  Casablanca
•  3  Fes
•  4  Marrakech
•  5  Rabat
•  6  Tangier

• Portugal
•  7  Lisbon
•  8  Porto
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• Spain
•  9  A Coruña
•  10  Barcelona
•  11  Bilbao
•  12  Las Palmas
•  13  Madrid
•  14  Málaga
•  15  San Sebastián
•  16  Seville
•  17  Zaragoza

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Location of the Anniversary match host cities of the 2030 FIFA World Cup

• Paraguay
•  1  Asunción

• Argentina
•  2  Buenos Aires

• Uruguay
•  3  Montevideo

Before finalizing the bid book on 31 July 2024, the Royal Spanish Football Federation announced its proposed 11 stadiums from 9 cities to host matches. The federation had also proposed two more stadiums, Nou Mestalla in Valencia, and Balaídos in Vigo, but their inclusion would have exceeded FIFA's maximum of twenty stadiums. ^[11] The host city list was finalized 12 days later. It includes six stadiums in six cities in Morocco, three stadiums in two cities in Portugal, and eleven stadiums in nine cities in Spain, for a total of twenty stadiums in seventeen cities. ^[12]

List of candidate host cities

City	Stadium	Capacity
A Coruña	Estadio Riazor	32,940 (expanded to 48,015)
Agadir	Adrar Stadium	45,480 (expanded up to 70,000) [13]
Barcelona	Camp Nou	105,000
	Stage Front Stadium	40,000
Bilbao	San Mamés Stadium	53,331
Casablanca	Hassan II Stadium (new)	115,000
Fez	Fez Stadium	45,000 (possible expansion to 55,800)
Las Palmas	Estadio Gran Canaria	32,392 (expanded to 44,500)
Lisbon	Estádio da Luz	64,642 (possible expansion to 70,000) [14]
	Estádio José Alvalade	50,095 (possible expansion to 52,095) [15]
Madrid	Santiago Bernabéu Stadium	85,000
	Metropolitano Stadium	70,692
Málaga	La Rosaleda Stadium	30,044 (expanded to 45,000)
Marrakech	Marrakesh Stadium	45,240 (expanded to 45,860)
Porto	Estádio do Dragão	50,033
Rabat	Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium (New)	68,700
San Sebastián	Anoeta Stadium	39,313 (expanded to 42,300)
Seville	Estadio de La Cartuja	57,600 (expanded to 70,000–75,000)
Tangier	Ibn Batouta Stadium	65,000 (expanded to 75,600)
Zaragoza	La Romareda	33,608 (expanded to 42,500)

Three South American cities were also selected in the bid book to host centenary matches. ^[16]

List of candidate host cities

City	Stadium	Capacity
Asuncion	Estadio Osvaldo Domínguez Dibb	46,000 [17]
Buenos Aires	Estadio Monumental	84,567
Montevideo	Estadio Centenario	60,235

Teams

Qualification

  Teams qualified

  Team whose qualification process has yet to be decided

  Not a FIFA member

All six host nations will qualify for the World Cup. ^{[3] [18] [19]}

CAF

•   Morocco (co-host)

CONMEBOL

•   Argentina (anniversary match co-host)
•   Paraguay (anniversary match co-host)
•   Uruguay (anniversary match co-host)

UEFA

•   Portugal (co-host)
•   Spain (co-host)

Broadcasting

• Croatia – HRT ^[20]
• Czech Republic – ČT, TV Nova ^[20]
• Europe – EBU ^[21]
• France – M6 ^[22]
• Hungary – MTVA ^[20]
• Netherlands – NOS ^[23]
• South Korea - JTBC ^[24]
• United Kingdom – BBC, ITV ^[25]

Notes

1. The FIFA extraordinary congress was held online

References

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