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The 2030 World Cup, or the “Centennial World Cup”, must unite six countries: Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay. An unprecedented arrangement since the first edition in 1930, concentrated in three stadiums in Montevideo, with 13 selections entered, a number of participants which has continued to grow – 32 in 2022 and 48 from 2026.
After three matches in Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay, scheduled for June 8 and 9, 2030, in the cool of the southern winter, the six teams involved and their supporters will cross the Atlantic for the other 101 matches, from June 13 to 21 July. With 11 of the 20 stadiums proposed, Spain should be the main host after having already organized the 1982 World Cup, but Morocco, five unsuccessful candidates for the organization, will become the second country on the African continent to host it. , after South Africa in 2010.
Spain and Morocco are still competing for the opening match and the final, respectively proposing the Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid or the Camp Nou in Barcelona and the future Hassan-II enclosure between Casablanca and Rabat, which aims to become the “largest stadium in world” with 115,000 places. Portugal, organizer of Euro 2004 but never associated with a football World Cup, for its part offers the two stadiums in Lisbon and that of Porto, and is seeking one of the semi-finals. (AFP)
