2030 World Cup: South America offers a tournament of 64 teams enlarged
An official proposal to expand the 64 -team men’s 2030 World Cup has been advanced by the South American government body Conmebol.
The tournament will be hosted by Spain, Morocco and Portugal, after the opening games are held in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.
The 2026 World Cup will be the first with 48 teams, but Conmebol wants to expand further for 2030 to mark the centenary of the competition.
“This will allow all countries to have the opportunity to live the world experience and therefore nobody on the planet is excluded from the party,” said Conmebol Alejandro Dominguez on Thursday at the Congress of the body.
“We are convinced that the centenary celebration will be unique because 100 years are celebrated only once.”
The idea was “spontaneously raised” in a meeting of the FIFA council in March of the president of the Uruguayan football federation Ignacio Alonso.
On Friday, in a declaration, Fifa said he had a “duty to analyze any proposal from one of his members of the Council”.
Gianni Infantino, president of Fifa, participated in the Congress of Conmebol on Thursday and highlighted the “exceptional milestone” that the 2030 tournament would represent.
