The FIFA Council agreed on Friday to postpone until the last quarter of this year the start of the bidding process for hosting the 2030 World Cup and also the final selection of the venue of the Congress, which will take place in last quarter of 2024.
“The postponement pursues the goal of expanding consultations with the main interest groups. Consequently, the corresponding regulations for the election of the organizer will be presented for approval at the next session of the Council, scheduled for next September or October,” FIFA said.
He also specified that from then on the process will officially begin and the appointment of the host or hosts of the FIFA Congress will be postponed from the third to the fourth quarter of 2024.
The candidacies
Spain, together with Portugal and Morocco announced the presentation of their candidacy, to which Ukraine was first added, to organize the competition, which in 2030 will celebrate its centenary. Uruguay -organizer of that first meeting in 1930-, along with Argentina, Chile and Paraguay, will also be chosen as hosts and Saudi Arabia, Greece and Egypt have jointly shown interest, although in recent days it appeared that Arabia had surrendered.
The Council also approved the organizational requirements of the aforementioned World Cup, “so that all interested member federations are more aware of what is needed to host the competition, such as the necessary infrastructure, the legal framework that must establish and the social and environmental goals. important”.
The regulations for the 2026 World Cup have been adopted
In addition to these decisions and unanimously choosing the United States as the organizer of the 2025 Club World Cup, the first expanded to 32 teams, the Council also ratified the regulations for the preliminary phase of the 2026 World Cup, which will be held. in the United States , Canada and Mexico, and will begin next September.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino pointed out that since 48 teams will participate in it, compared to the 32 that made it to the last edition in Qatar 2022, “the competition will have an impact like never before in the world of football, especially that because more countries will have the possibility to access the biggest stage on the planet.”
Selection of places for various contests
Other agreements of the Council include the designation of Bangkok as the host of the 74th FIFA Congress, which will be held on May 17, 2024 in the Thai capital, and the selection of several competition venues, the dates of which have not yet been determined by body. ..
Indonesia will host this year’s U-17 World Cup; Colombia from the 2024 U-20 Women’s World Cup; Dominican Republic from the 2024 U-17 Women’s World Cup and Uzbekistan from the 2024 Futsal World Cup.
The 2023 Beach Soccer World Cup, to be held in the United Arab Emirates, was scheduled for November 16-26, but will be delayed to 2024 and will be played from February 15-25.
Source: La Verdad
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