2030 FIFA World Cup
Future association football tournament
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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. The tournament will be jointly hosted by Morocco, Portugal, and Spain; it would be the first across the Mediterranean Sea. In honour of the 100th anniversary of the first FIFA World Cup in 1930, a special match and centennial celebration will be held at Estadio Centenario in Montevideo, Uruguay—host stadium of the 1930 final, as well as one match each in Estadio Monumental in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Estadio Osvaldo Domínguez Dibb in Asunción, Paraguay.
Portugal
Spain
- Centenary match hosts:
- Argentina
- Paraguay
- Uruguay
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| Tournament details | |
| Host countries | Morocco Portugal Spain
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| Dates | 8 June – 21 July[1] |
| Teams | 48 (from 6 confederations) |
| Venue | TBA (including centenary match hosts) (in TBA host cities) |
← 2026 2034 → | |
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 to honour the tournament's centennial anniversary during that month's FIFA Council meeting.[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 claiming a devaluing of the qualification process and a reduction in the quality of competition during the tournament should 64 teams—which represent 30% of FIFA members as of 2025—qualify for the tournament.[3]
Host selection
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 (United States, 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]
| 2024 Extraordinary FIFA Congress 11 December 2024 – Zürich, Switzerland[a] | |
| Nation | Round 1 |
|---|---|
 Morocco,  Portugal,  Spain |
Acclamation |
Proposed venues
Prior to finalising the bid book on 31 July 2024, the Royal Spanish Football Federation announced its proposed 11 stadiums from 9 cities to host matches.[10] The host city list was finalised 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 Estadio La Rosaleda.[13] On 15 March 2026, the mayor of A Coruña, Inés Rey, and the president of Deportivo La Coruña, Juan Carlos Escotet, announced that they would withdraw as host city due to the costs of hosting despite having plans to upgrade the Estadio de Riazor.[14]
Towards the end of March 2026, it was reported that the Royal Spanish Football Federation had submitted bids for Nou Mestalla in Valencia, and Estadio de Balaídos in Vigo, which were previously turned down by FIFA due to their initial inclusion exceeding a limit of twenty stadiums per tournament, to replace Málaga and A Coruña's stadiums.[15]
| Country | City | Stadium | Capacity | Image |
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| Morocco |
Agadir | Grand Stade d'Agadir | 46,000 (after renovation) |
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| Casablanca | Grand Stade Hassan II | 115,000 (new) |
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| Fez | Stade de Fès | 55,800 (after renovation) |
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| Marrakesh | Grand Stade de Marrakech | 45,860 (after renovation) |
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| Rabat | Stade Prince Moulay Abdellah | 69,500 |  | |
| Tangier | Grand Stade de Tanger | 75,500 |  | |
| Portugal |
Lisbon | Estádio da Luz | 70,000 – 80,000 (after renovation)[16] |
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| Estádio José Alvalade | 52,095 |  | ||
| Porto | Estádio do Dragão | 50,033 |  | |
| Spain |
Barcelona | Camp Nou | 105,000 (after renovation) |
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| RCDE Stadium | 40,500 |  | ||
| Bilbao | Estadio de San Mamés | 53,331 |  | |
| Las Palmas | Estadio de Gran Canaria | 44,500 (after renovation) |
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| Madrid | Estadio Santiago Bernabéu | 83,186 |  | |
| Estadio Metropolitano | 70,692 |  | ||
| San Sebastián | Estadio de Anoeta | 42,300 |  | |
| Seville | Estadio de La Cartuja | 70,000 |  | |
| Valencia | Nou Mestalla | 70,044 (new) |
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| Vigo | Estadio de Balaídos | 44,000 (after renovation) |
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| Zaragoza | Estadio Nueva Romareda | 43,110 (new) |
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Three South American cities were also selected in the bid book to host the three centenary matches.[17]
| Country | City | Stadium | Capacity | Image |
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 Argentina |
Buenos Aires | Estadio Monumental | 100,000 (after renovation)[18] |
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 Paraguay |
Asunción | Estadio Osvaldo Domínguez Dibb | 46,000 (new) |
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 Uruguay |
Montevideo | Estadio Centenario | 62,782 (after renovation) |
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Teams
Marketing
Broadcasting rights
Sponsorship
| FIFA partners | FIFA World Cup sponsors |
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Controversies
Manipulation of Spanish venues
On March 23, 2025, news broke that the Royal Spanish Football Federation manipulated the scores when choosing the venues in order to exclude Balaídos Stadium and include Anoeta Stadium.[36]
Inclusion of centenary match hosts
With the FIFA rotation system,[37] CONCACAF (which won the rights to host the 2026 World Cup), CONMEBOL, UEFA, and CAF were unable to bid, leaving 2034 open only for the AFC and OFC. This led 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.[38][39]
Animal welfare concerns
Animal rights organisations have accused Morocco of killing stray dogs ahead of its co-hosting of the FIFA World Cup. These groups estimate the stray dog population at three million and have alleged that methods used include poisoning and shooting.[40][41]
In response, Moroccan authorities adopted Law 19-25 in 2025, which established a legal framework for the management of stray animals. The law introduced measures such as sterilisation, vaccination, identification, and the use of shelters, and restricted the killing of stray animals.[42][43]
2025 Gen Z protests
In late September 2025, a series of protests erupted in several cities in Morocco by young people calling themselves Gen Z 212.[44][45] The protests were sparked by the deterioration of the country's health and education systems 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.[46][47][48][49]
Notes
- The FIFA extraordinary congress was held online.
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