Rumoured and confirmed bids for the 2030 World Cup

[TheBigIguana]

A four-nation South American joint bid would make CONMEBOL qualifying a joke.

If they actually go through with making it 48 teams and keep the same percentages as they currently have CONMEBOL would be getting 6 of 10 teams in the World Cup plus a playoff spot of those still exist. If not it could be 7 out of 10. Point being the move to 48 teams is making qualifying a joke regardless of the host.

 

[Yank]

A north African world cup with Morroco and Egypt involved might be a decent one. The likes of Algeria and Tunisia, though maybe not Libya (for the time being) and that'd be one of football's hot beds covered in one go after not having a look in yet.

Yea no thanks to that. I do like the south American, UK, and Balkan? Not sure if that's correct to call them, but all

I agree, that South American multi-country bid looks crazy to me - planes criss-crossing the Andes doesn't too bright an idea to me.
Although a solus bid from Egypt sounds equally odd - have they got sufficient stadia for a tournament that size ?

I've always been one who wants to go to south America, but I'm not effing with flying down there. The Andes arent the problem, it's the infrastructure.

 

[Yank]

If they actually go through with making it 48 teams and keep the same percentages as they currently have CONMEBOL would be getting 6 of 10 teams in the World Cup plus a playoff spot of those still exist. If not it could be 7 out of 10. Point being the move to 48 teams is making qualifying a joke regardless of the host.

I say this now and I'm sure I'll be proven wrong. 48 teams has ruined the tournament. It doesn't mean anything to make it anymore. Like just making it to the world cup for America was huge when I was a kid. I mean it totally changed the sport here for better or worse, but seeing these countries make it and it's their first time is a special fun thing to see because you can feel how much it matters to them. That's what we're gonna lose. But fifa has always been on this exploitation bs, so they're going to expand and the higher ups are going to secure their jobs by voting for a world cup in Egypt. Fifa has to go.

 

[Yarrgh]

Looking at that list and the one I haven't considered is the Chinese/ Koreas bid.By the time of the 2030 world cup, it'll be 28 years since the Japan-Korea world cup. Another part of the world that is part of the ever-growing world game that hasn't had the chance to hold one for a long while. I think that might be a dark horse on merit alone, and we know that they'd move heaven and earth to get the infrastructure in place to hold it. Russia/ Qatar/ USA (Mexico&Canada) will be the three before hand, so somewhere in the far East might make sense if it really is to move around to spread the competition all over the world.

 

[TheBigIguana]

I say this now and I'm sure I'll be proven wrong. 48 teams has ruined the tournament. It doesn't mean anything to make it anymore. Like just making it to the world cup for America was huge when I was a kid. I mean it totally changed the sport here for better or worse, but seeing these countries make it and it's their first time is a special fun thing to see because you can feel how much it matters to them. That's what we're gonna lose. But fifa has always been on this exploitation bs, so they're going to expand and the higher ups are going to secure their jobs by voting for a world cup in Egypt. Fifa has to go.

Agreed. If you apply the same percentages for each continent to a 48 team tournament Uganda and Uzbekistan would have qualified in 2018. I don't know a single player in either of those squads and really can't see a team made up of 0 players who play outside Africa competing with Spain or Brazil to a level that is entertaining. 32 was probably the sweet spot for the current climate but as always it's $€£ that speaks. My guess is that by 2030 there's a European Super League and football in general is less fun than it currently is.

 

[riddick]

That Greece/Serbia/Romania n Bulgaria one sounds like it would be a fantastic couple weeks

 

[Catfish Blues]

I don't think they HAVE to share, they just seem to want to for some reason

The last two world cups have cost over 10 billion US Dollars each.

Co-hosting a World Cup is just a bigger version of 20 somethings sharing a house in London and the South East. They'd like to do it on their own, but can't afford to.

Qatar's the exception which proves the rule, but when your GDP per capita is more than the average city trader's annual bonus then you don't have to worry about keeping the country's population on board with the cost.