كأس العالم لكرة القدم 2030 Campeonato do Mundo da FIFA de 2030 Copa Mundial de la FIFA 2030 ⴰⴽⵔⵡⴰⵙ ⵏ ⵓⵎⴰⴹⴰⵍ 2030 FIFA Tembiesarái Yvypavẽ 2030 Coupe du Monde FIFA 2030
This will be the first World Cup held in North Africa and the first anywhere in Africa since 2010; in South America since 2014, and 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; and Spain since 1982.
Possible format and expansion
In March 2025, it was initially reported that CONMEBOL proposed a one-off 64 team expansion during that month's FIFA Council meeting to honour the tournament's centennial anniversary.[2] Later in September of that year, CONMEBOL leaders directly met with FIFA president Gianni Infantino in New York City to discuss the expansion. The idea has been met with backlash from fans and some football executives with concerns raised about how it would affect the qualification cycle and tournament overall, as a third of all FIFA members would qualify.[3]
FIFA launched the bidding process in 2022.[4][5] Because of the rule preventing countries belonging to confederations that hosted the two preceding tournaments to host the next one,[6] members of AFC and CONCACAF could not bid to host the 2030 FIFA World Cup,[7][8] as the hosts of the World Cup in 2022 (Qatar) and 2026 (USA, Canada, and Mexico).
On 11 December 2024, FIFA confirmed that the 2030 World Cup will be jointly hosted by Morocco, Portugal, and Spain. This announcement was made alongside the decision to award the 2034 tournament to Saudi Arabia during an Extraordinary FIFA Congress meeting.[9]
Prior to 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.[10] 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.[11]
In April 2025, some residents of San Sebastián wrote to FIFA asking to be removed as a host city amid overtourism.[12] On 12 July 2025, Málaga withdrew due to logistical reasons regarding the renovation of La Rosaleda.[13][dead link]
Morocco has been accused by several animal rights organizations of carrying out a mass cull of stray dogs in order to "clean up its image ahead of its co-hosting of the FIFA World Cup." Their number is estimated at three million, and the methods of slaughter include "poisoning with the highly toxic strychnine, shooting dogs in public spaces, and allegedly beating surviving animals to death with shovels."[35][36]
In late September 2025, a series of popular protests erupted in several cities in Morocco by young people calling themselves Gen Z 212.[37][38] The protests were sparked by the deterioration of the country's health and education systems, widespread youth unemployment, and the government's excessive spending on sports infrastructure in preparation for hosting the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations and the 2030 FIFA World Cup,[39] which Morocco is co-hosting with Spain and Portugal.[40] The protests were met with police repression, resulting in three deaths and hundreds of injuries among protesters and police.[41]
Notes
↑ The FIFA extraordinary congress was held online.
1 2 3 The cities of Barcelona, Lisbon and Madrid are each expected to choose one out of two shortlisted venues in their cities.
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