FIFA World Cup 2030 starts in America and will end in Europe

Selection of Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay will qualify directly for World Cup 2030one congress FIFA 2024 confirm the first three as the organizers and the other three as the venue for the so-called “Centennial Celebration Matches” of the competition.

He FIFA Council this Wednesday they unanimously agreed that the only candidacy for the organization of the event is a joint one Spain, Portugal and Morocco; that Montevideo to host the opening match, in commemoration of the hundred years since the first World Cup, which was held in Uruguay in 1930, and that both Argentina as Paraguay the host of the meeting.

Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay They will thus occupy part of the quota allocated to them by 6.5 places at the World Cup CONMEBOL -South American Confederation- for the competition.

After the decision of the FIFA Council, the candidacy process for 2030 and 2024 will begin on the 6th, and the associations will have until October 31 to confirm their interest.

November 30 will be the last day to submit your documentation, before FIFA evaluate candidacies in the first quarter of 2024.

Applicants must propose a minimum of 14 stadiums, of which at least 7 must be built, although FIFA will allow submission of up to 20 fields if available. In the case of joint bids, each of the confederations that are part of it must propose at least two stadiums per country.

Fifteen stadiums that must be reduced and with which the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has started work are Madrid, with Santiago Bernabéu and Metropolitano, Barcelona, ​​​​with Camp Nou and Espanyol, Stage Front Stadium, Valencia, with Mestalla after renovation, along with Vigo (Balaídos), La Coruña (Riazor), Gijón (El Molinón Enrique Castro “Quini”), Bilbao (San Mamés), San Sebastián (Reale Arena), Zaragoza (La Romareda), Murcia (La Nueva Condomina), Sevilla (La Cartuja), Malaga (La Rosaleda) and Las Palmas (Gran Canaria Stadium).

Portugal proposed the Do Dragao stadium in Porto, plus Benfica’s La Luz and Sporting Lisbon’s José Alvalade, and Morocco proposed venues in Rabat, Casablanca, Tangier, Agadir, Marrakesh and Fez.