WM 2030: Will the biggest football festival ever with 64 teams?

WM 2030: Will the biggest football festival ever with 64 teams?

Marokko, Spanien, Portugal, Argentinien, Paraguay, Uruguay - The 2030 World Cup could be held with 64 teams, as was discussed at a meeting of the FIFA Council on March 5, 2025. The FIFA, which is already planning an extension to 48 teams for the upcoming World Cup in the USA, Canada and Mexico, is now dealing with a proposal that was brought in by a Uruguayan delegate. According to reports from the New York Times was very interested in the reaction in the space of "stunned silence". Nevertheless, FIFA President Gianni Infantino described the plan as "interesting".

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The 2030 World Cup is held in Morocco, Spain and Portugal, with the first games in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay - the original place of the first World Cup 100 years ago. The proposal to expand the field of participants to 64 teams would be a second significant increase in a short time after the 2026 World Cup will grow on 48 teams, such as t-online.de reported. FIFA emphasizes that it has to carefully examine every application of a council member, which indicates that the discussions about this expansion are far from exhausted.