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2030 FIFA World Cup
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. 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 Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Asunción, Paraguay.
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.
In March 2025, it was initially reported that CONMEBOL proposed a one-off 64 team expansion during that month's FIFA Council meeting to honour the tournament's centennial anniversary. 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 with concerns raised about how it would affect the qualification cycle and tournament overall, as a third of all FIFA members would qualify.
FIFA launched the bidding process in 2022. Because of the rule preventing countries belonging to confederations that hosted the two preceding tournaments to host the next one, members of AFC and CONCACAF could not bid to host the 2030 FIFA World Cup, as the hosts of the World Cup in 2022 (Qatar) and 2026 (USA, 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.
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. The federation had also proposed two more stadiums, Nou Mestalla in Valencia, and Balaídos in Vigo, but their inclusion would have exceeded FIFA's maximum of twenty stadiums. 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.
In April 2025, some residents of San Sebastián wrote to FIFA asking to be removed as a host city amid overtourism. On 12 July 2025, Málaga withdrew due to logistical reasons regarding the renovation of La Rosaleda.
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2030 FIFA World Cup
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. 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 Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Asunción, Paraguay.
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.
In March 2025, it was initially reported that CONMEBOL proposed a one-off 64 team expansion during that month's FIFA Council meeting to honour the tournament's centennial anniversary. 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 with concerns raised about how it would affect the qualification cycle and tournament overall, as a third of all FIFA members would qualify.
FIFA launched the bidding process in 2022. Because of the rule preventing countries belonging to confederations that hosted the two preceding tournaments to host the next one, members of AFC and CONCACAF could not bid to host the 2030 FIFA World Cup, as the hosts of the World Cup in 2022 (Qatar) and 2026 (USA, 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.
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. The federation had also proposed two more stadiums, Nou Mestalla in Valencia, and Balaídos in Vigo, but their inclusion would have exceeded FIFA's maximum of twenty stadiums. 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.
In April 2025, some residents of San Sebastián wrote to FIFA asking to be removed as a host city amid overtourism. On 12 July 2025, Málaga withdrew due to logistical reasons regarding the renovation of La Rosaleda.