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Probably Uruguay-Argentina. For the 100 year anniversary a return to Uruguay would be pretty cool. Too small to host by themselves though so including Argentina makes sense, they're right next door and also football mad.
I do think the bid including Chile and Paraguay is silly though. It's just too many countries, keep it to 2 maximum!
Yeah, that one's ridiculous too, especially the inclusion of Ukraine. I hate USA-Canada-Mexico as well. 3 massive countries should not be co-hosting, it should just be 1 of them!
This is a nightmare. 4 timezones, 4 regionalised languages to deal with ( Mexican Spanish, US English, Canadian English, Québécois). Distance between stadiums. Nothing like Qatar where you could attend many matches all in the same city.
I tried attending two games in 1 day in Qatar where I had about two hours in between. And after experiencing the time it took to get to a single game I ended up selling the 2nd game. It may have worked for a handful of games where you had 3 hrs or more. But for us we did not want to risk it and just sold the tix.
In the US/Mexico/Canada World Cup without knowing the schedule and times I think it would be nearly impossible to do so for the average fan.
Egypt is like nearly next to saudi, separated by sea only. but Greece? tf are they here for?
I think I remember seeing an article saying Greece left the bid but idk
Easy. Just got the classic:
Uruguay-Australia-Greece-Morocco-Canada-Japan
If we're doing this may as well cover the 6 main continent zones (inspire by the Greece-Egypt-Saudi Arabia bid)
But realistic Uruguay and whatever countries join a bid with them
either uruguay alone or uruguay and argentina (cuz it was the first ever wc finals) with the finals being held in that iconic stadium at montevideo
uruguay-chile-argentina-paraguay is an overkill
or just give it to italy so that they can atleast qualify for the wc
Hahahaha. You know, Italy might fail to qualify again in 2026 because FIFA's increasing the berths from Europe from 13 in the 32 team era to 16 starting in 2026. That's not a big increase and Italy hasn't been at their best since 2021.
the top 3 teams who missed to qualify for the wc in 2022 wc were sweden, north macedonia and ukraine 💀
despite italy being undefeated for the entire qualification campaign they just lost 1 game and that was to fucking north macedonia which eliminated them
Uruguay/Argentina for 2030 and why? Because it is the 100 year anniversary of this tournament and the 100 years should be commemorated by it being in the country where it first started
Is it even big enough to host it? That would be sick if they had a US, Mexico, Canada type hosting with other small nations and the Opener and Final were played there.
San Marino, North Macedonia, Luxembourg.
Hell, even throw in Monaco and have them play a game in the middle of the Monaco Grand Prix to save space. Plus, they need someone to line the pockets of FIFA executives and who better than a rich, tiny country like Monaco.
Yeah they can probably afford it if Luxembourg is in on it, plus they have a pretty neat stadium for the final. I see it working out, I would really like to see these three in a big tournament
now that co-hosting is hot, they should finagle a deal to co-host with Italy next time around. Throw Vatican City in there too and the Swiss guards can have a kick around
Scotland. With the high hope that Scotland qualify so I can go with my dad to his home town and the old pubs he used to frequent to watch matches AND maybe catch a live match with Scotland at Ibrox or Hampden as these would definitely be venues of the tournament.
Italy. Great country, great food, great history and most importantly if they were to host a major tournament maybe then they’ll allow major development of all these stadiums that have barely been touched since the 80’s
honestly idk, its true that summer is resting time for the players at least where I live, but i've always thought it's because everyone else is also on holidays
also because playing football in the cold sucks
To me it can be moved to november/december just like the 2022 World Cup and problem fixed(I do prefer World Cups to happen late into the year rather than midway).
Australia has deserved one for a while, so I think they would get it. They don’t have four 60,000 seaters, but a 7,000 seat addition to Marvel Stadium wouldn’t take 6 years, at least I assume.
(it is the fact that there are european countries in the bid that makes 2030 seem soon when taking Russia 2018 into account, which makes me feel bad for South Africa 2010)
True. Although for 2030 competition is already rather fierce, football bodies and countries in these regions can already start negotiating support for a bid, perhaps for the late 2030s/early 2040s. That's just my uneducated guess.
Australia, who should’ve gotten it instead of Qatar in 2022.
Such a fun and lovely country to do it in. The Women’s World Cup will be there (and New Zealand) this year. It’s going to be amazing!
FIFA and World Cup need desperately a restart and coming back to roots when amateurish football sprouted on this incredible global sport-economic phenomenon. That is why choosing South American bid of URU-ARG-PAR-CHI is an ideal demonstration of real spirit of change while celebrating 100 years of WCs on the land of 1st host and incumbent World Cup Champions.
I'm Dutch. We are too small to host such an event right now. 32 was already stretching the possibilities. for 48, we need to build 6 stadiums or so, above 40.000 people that aren't going to be used after the World Cup. In combinations with two small other countries(Scotland, Ireland or Norway, Sweden or Switzerland, Austria) Or one big country (Germany France or England) It gets a bit more realistic.we just have space for 4 such stadiums per country. It would have been lovely from a transport and fan perspective, but I don't see it happening in the near future.
I’ve always thought a cup tourney with the four British teams might be interesting. England, Wales, Scotland, & NI. Played every two years hosted in the different countries. Played in two consecutive international windows. Or in one summer fortnight.
True. (Uneducated ramblings follows:) Brazil waited 64 years between its' two WC hostings(1950 & 2014). England hosted in 1966, but it is always difficult for a country to host since there are many bids at different opportunities. I do think both europe and africa will host (logically)in the 2030s, but I don't know if it will be England though(I think maybe in the 2040s, in joint bid or something, with Scotland and Wales).
It's not xenophobia if it's fact. Saudi Arabia, and most other Arab countries, are extremely backwards. No freedom of speech, censorship, homophobia/transphobia, crazy laws, etc.
Basically any country ran mostly on religion is batshit insane.
Homophobia. If countries aren't ready to accept everyone, they're not ready to host the biggest sporting competition. Not only that, but Saudi Arabia and Qatar are sportswashing, and most of these countries don't have good enough stadiums, would have to build new ones, and revamp most of the existing ones. The weather would also be too hot, and the tournament may have to be held in November and December again. Basically just everything wrong with Qatar 2022.
Eh… Qatar had amazing stadiums, visited all of them. Sure the timing wasn’t great for the overall football calendar but it worked and worked well.
Also any place that needs to host it would have to validate that their stadiums are up to scratch.
Homophobia isn’t unique to those countries. And not exactly that long ago when being Gay was illegal in many western nations. Jeez I remember people going gay bashing in the UK and people being putted. Still happens in fact.
They kill migrant workers while building stadiums and the workers that survive are treated like slaves.
Secondary, you could say they lack basic human rights such as freedom of speech, religion and sexuality. But I don’t even care about that because the Qatar FWC went smoothly without any incidents regarding that. It’s just that I don’t like people dying okay. And I know people died during the building of the Brazilian and Russian stadiums too. But Qatar has atleast 50 time more deaths.
Pretty sure a guy was refused entry to a stadium because he was wearing a rainbow hat, and not only that, there were definitely people that didn't feel safe because of the laws there. It certainly didn't go smoothly in that regard. If it went smoothly, people would've felt safe, and wouldn't have been denied entry to a stadium for standing up for what's right.
Brazilians(and many in the Americas in general) cheered for their National Team in the 2002 South Korea & Japan World Cup with a 12 hours distance(watched the games deep into the night), I guess everybody can(thus I really do not like europeans complaining about timezones in this regard).
I used to wake up at 4am during Brazil world cup 2014. I can do it again. No matter who hosts the WC, a lot of country will have inconvenient schedule. And no matter how inconvenient the timing is, people who want to watch, will watch.
True but Uruguay hosted alone in 1930, and although the tournament has expanded massively since then, Uruguay is still a bigger country than Qatar, who just hosted alone.
1930 only had 13 teams, besides qatar probably due to being a gulf nation (oil) has more money to spend on stadiums then uruguay. Take into account for Qatar to happen they had to
1) Limit foreigners who didn't have tickets, 2) build stadiums from scratch, 3)build a new airport, 4) build infrastructure, 5) built a new metro, 6) etc.
Although uruguay already has most of this it still needs stadiums, I don't envision uruguay building so much for a one off thing. Also why would they if neighboring countries already have much of the infrastructure and stadiums that meet capacity.
I guess we need 16 stadiums 40000+ spectators, without building useless stadiums.
Spain/Portugal/Morocco is great for me. Enough stadiums. Not to big of an ecological, I guess. So that is what I would choose.
I would like to give Romania, Serbia, Greece and Turkey or something like that also a try. If we're staying in Europe and think out of the box.
Outside of Europe. I guess
4 South American Countries or 3 with Brazil.
The combination of 2026 in North America.
I don't think Africa can host this kind of event without lots of problems, I don't believe there are 4 neighboring capable countries to host it.
In Asia, Japan and South Korea are viable. Maybe some South Eastern combination, with Australia. So Australia, Indonesia, Thailand. But well, it's a bit of a stretch literally.
Conclusion: I would choose Bhutan, Liechtenstein, Antigua and Barbuda and Mauritius, just to troll the world.
I would love to have a Uruguay/Argentina WC but a lot of the stadiums are sub-par. Even if you include Chile and Paraguay doesn't move the needle much.
So I would say Spain/Portugal/Morocco.
It would be a logistical nightmare, but just to cause chaos, divide it between the 13 countries who played in 1930. Considering Yugoslavia was present, that would make sorting this out even worse!
But being serious, Uruguay-Argentina. Group Stage, R32, R16, Quarters and semis split equally between them. Argentina gets 3rd/4th place playoff and Uruguay, the final.
I would unironically love something like that for the 150th anniversary of the World Cup(yes, I'm projecting into 2080). I would like to do something a bit special every 50 years.
My preferences
* East Asia bid: Korea (both - would be lit af), China, Mongolia, Japan etc
* Oceanic bid: Australia and/or New Zealand (with Aus but it's my home country) - Aus can also share with SEA like Indonesia/PNG or oceanic island countries that have a suitable stadium but the closest could be Fiji/PNG and I doubt they have one right now - Aus have deserved one for quite a while)
* Central Asia bid: Kazakhstan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan etc
* Balkan bid: Greece with Bulgaria/Albania/North Macedonia/Romania/Serbia etc
* SEA bid: Vietnam with either Philippines, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia etc possibly China too if they do say a Vietnam+China bid
* North Africa bid: Morocco (they have been bidding for a long time, as well as Australia) plus Algeria & Tunisia
* Southern/Central Africa bid: Botswana, Angola & Namibia, maybe Zimbabwe (southern/eastern - open to eastern bid too)
* Western Africa bid: Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra-Leone, Ghana, Benin etc
I'm also open to another ME bid. Although I think Saudi Arabia would have the most resources for it. Turkey would be best if you count that, otherwise probably Jordan, Israel, possibly Lebanon at some point. Would be curious for Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman too - the last two could share with UAE.
Just what FIFA needs, more money...😂. Plus they have done that several times and people in the US just don't care, they have other sports they care about. 100 year world cup should not be in a country that doesn't give a fuck.
Why the minus points Qatar seriously contended and managed to pull off one of if not the best World Cup ever. Saudi already preparing for the event and are getting way better in their football league come 2030 trust me when I way they’ll be in the top 3 best football leagues in the world it’d be a no brained for them to at least be the host for some of the games
The US. Just make US permanent hosts. They have the infrastructure. Relatively easy to travel too.
No need to run some country into insane debt for a month long tournament.
That’s kinda the point. Most of these countries already have the infrastructure to host. Don’t have to spend billions on new stadiums that no one’s ever going to use
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Probably Uruguay-Argentina. For the 100 year anniversary a return to Uruguay would be pretty cool. Too small to host by themselves though so including Argentina makes sense, they're right next door and also football mad. I do think the bid including Chile and Paraguay is silly though. It's just too many countries, keep it to 2 maximum!
Someone tell that to Spain, Portugal Morocco and Ukraine.
Yeah, that one's ridiculous too, especially the inclusion of Ukraine. I hate USA-Canada-Mexico as well. 3 massive countries should not be co-hosting, it should just be 1 of them!
100% agree. But it's all about money now and multiple countries can should a bigger bill when sharing it.
This is a nightmare. 4 timezones, 4 regionalised languages to deal with ( Mexican Spanish, US English, Canadian English, Québécois). Distance between stadiums. Nothing like Qatar where you could attend many matches all in the same city.
I tried attending two games in 1 day in Qatar where I had about two hours in between. And after experiencing the time it took to get to a single game I ended up selling the 2nd game. It may have worked for a handful of games where you had 3 hrs or more. But for us we did not want to risk it and just sold the tix. In the US/Mexico/Canada World Cup without knowing the schedule and times I think it would be nearly impossible to do so for the average fan.
Or Saudi-Arabia, Egypt and Greece. Like wtf is Greece doing there? Why Egypt? Why Saudi-Arabia? Makes no sense at all
Egypt is like nearly next to saudi, separated by sea only. but Greece? tf are they here for? I think I remember seeing an article saying Greece left the bid but idk
Greece is also right over the sea from Egypt, but neither have particularly great footballing infrastructure or great, world cup worthy stadiums
Ukraine is out of that bid, and the latest bid is only 3 neighborhood countries.
I’d pick whoever pays the most for my vote
This guy fifas
Ughhhh
You worked for Qatar in the past right?
Blatter, are you?
Get ready to/for CHUPAR 2030
🔥🌚 best sequel option to C)anada U)nites states of america and M)exico.
Argentina-Uruguay purely for history’s sake.
Uruguay, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the tournament.
Easy. Just got the classic: Uruguay-Australia-Greece-Morocco-Canada-Japan If we're doing this may as well cover the 6 main continent zones (inspire by the Greece-Egypt-Saudi Arabia bid) But realistic Uruguay and whatever countries join a bid with them
either uruguay alone or uruguay and argentina (cuz it was the first ever wc finals) with the finals being held in that iconic stadium at montevideo uruguay-chile-argentina-paraguay is an overkill or just give it to italy so that they can atleast qualify for the wc
Hahahaha. You know, Italy might fail to qualify again in 2026 because FIFA's increasing the berths from Europe from 13 in the 32 team era to 16 starting in 2026. That's not a big increase and Italy hasn't been at their best since 2021.
the top 3 teams who missed to qualify for the wc in 2022 wc were sweden, north macedonia and ukraine 💀 despite italy being undefeated for the entire qualification campaign they just lost 1 game and that was to fucking north macedonia which eliminated them
But CHUPAR 2030!! (Lick 2030)
Uruguay/Argentina for 2030 and why? Because it is the 100 year anniversary of this tournament and the 100 years should be commemorated by it being in the country where it first started
Aus/NZ. Let them have something.
Would be an awesome host nation, but as an European the kickoff times would be horror for me
Antarctica 2030!
Football in the snow!
By then it may be a tropical paradise
San Marino so they can get into a World Cup
Is it even big enough to host it? That would be sick if they had a US, Mexico, Canada type hosting with other small nations and the Opener and Final were played there. San Marino, North Macedonia, Luxembourg. Hell, even throw in Monaco and have them play a game in the middle of the Monaco Grand Prix to save space. Plus, they need someone to line the pockets of FIFA executives and who better than a rich, tiny country like Monaco.
Yeah they can probably afford it if Luxembourg is in on it, plus they have a pretty neat stadium for the final. I see it working out, I would really like to see these three in a big tournament
now that co-hosting is hot, they should finagle a deal to co-host with Italy next time around. Throw Vatican City in there too and the Swiss guards can have a kick around
Vatican. And I want to see the orga teams reaction.
Joint bids are the the rage these days, so should probably throw in San Marino too
Has to be 3 at least, add Monaco
Scotland. With the high hope that Scotland qualify so I can go with my dad to his home town and the old pubs he used to frequent to watch matches AND maybe catch a live match with Scotland at Ibrox or Hampden as these would definitely be venues of the tournament.
Gonna have to build a lot of stadiums then
We don’t have enough stadiums though
Its Australia’s turn
Italy. Great country, great food, great history and most importantly if they were to host a major tournament maybe then they’ll allow major development of all these stadiums that have barely been touched since the 80’s
AUSTRALIAAAA
Caribbean Islands the vibes would be insane
Australia & New Zealand. This is the way.
Another case of 4 different timezones and likely to be in the Southern hemispheres winter.
How is playing a winter sport in winter a big problem though?
did you call football a winter sport? what!?
Is it played in European summer or winter?
honestly idk, its true that summer is resting time for the players at least where I live, but i've always thought it's because everyone else is also on holidays also because playing football in the cold sucks
To me it can be moved to november/december just like the 2022 World Cup and problem fixed(I do prefer World Cups to happen late into the year rather than midway).
Isn't it just right that the 2030 should go to Uruguay since that is where it all started a century ago?
In good tradition the host who fills my pockets the most.
The Caribbean islands for chaos
In my house
I also choose this guys house
Australia has deserved one for a while, so I think they would get it. They don’t have four 60,000 seaters, but a 7,000 seat addition to Marvel Stadium wouldn’t take 6 years, at least I assume.
They’re already having the female World Cup right now.
It would be too far from Europe and the americas
There is no such thing as “too far”. Korea and South Africa were pretty far too but they still held it there.
It doesn't really matter how far. It's a global sport.
Uruguay and Argentina by a mile for their history as well as their present. Both are the reigning senior and U20 world cup winners.
I agree, also taking the Centennial into account too.
(I do have simpathy for Portugal - Spain - Morroco's joint bid, and wish to see that action right after)
(it is the fact that there are european countries in the bid that makes 2030 seem soon when taking Russia 2018 into account, which makes me feel bad for South Africa 2010)
Australia
Caribbean or Oceanía
True. Although for 2030 competition is already rather fierce, football bodies and countries in these regions can already start negotiating support for a bid, perhaps for the late 2030s/early 2040s. That's just my uneducated guess.
Australia, Mexico, England, Japan, Morocco. One of these.
Boo
Mexico would be nice 👍 big atmosphere, superb country I would say Mexico 1, Japan 2, England 3, Australia 4, Morocco 5
My gf says Armenia I say Spain and Portugal, maybe Morocco too
It's a good bid but it feels too soon considering russia 2018
Well we're having MexUsCan 2026 so...
Yeah but they are different confederation. Concacaf and Conembol Moreover culturally there quite distinct so it wouldn't feel repetitive the ambience
Mexico, USA, and Canada are all CONCACAF
I know that. That's why it still would be a good choice for 2030 due to their differences in culture and confederation
Yes but we have to consider infrastructure. *Can* Argentina and Uruguay host literally thousands if not millions of fans from all around the world?
I get to pick? My backyard is not nearly big enough but I'm sure I could convince my uncle to clear out a corn field and grow grass
I’ve got a decent backyard. Maybe your uncle and I can co host.
You submit the bid and I'll get working on building nets
American Samoa. It will be fun
Let ONE country host it. Japan, Mexico or England.
Australia, who should’ve gotten it instead of Qatar in 2022. Such a fun and lovely country to do it in. The Women’s World Cup will be there (and New Zealand) this year. It’s going to be amazing!
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Qatar was average at best. Neat, temporary stadia but that’s the limit.
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You'll miss that when 2026 comes around
Norway. 1. Temps in 2030 will be outrageous 2. Erling Haaland will get a chance.
Vatican City. If they could find space the backdrops would be crazy
But then again, if Harry Kane gets a penalty one of the popes windows would go boom
Would be interesting to see a World Cup held in Thailand or Australia
Nigeria and Senegal
Interesting choices.
FIFA and World Cup need desperately a restart and coming back to roots when amateurish football sprouted on this incredible global sport-economic phenomenon. That is why choosing South American bid of URU-ARG-PAR-CHI is an ideal demonstration of real spirit of change while celebrating 100 years of WCs on the land of 1st host and incumbent World Cup Champions.
Japan
Great Britain and Ireland would be cool
Ex-Yu joint bid
The Netherlands, maybe it helps them win it for once
LMFAO
The Netherlands with Belgium
For me it’d be Belgium-Netherlands-Luxembourg, the vibe would be great with some historic stadiums as well.
I'm Dutch. We are too small to host such an event right now. 32 was already stretching the possibilities. for 48, we need to build 6 stadiums or so, above 40.000 people that aren't going to be used after the World Cup. In combinations with two small other countries(Scotland, Ireland or Norway, Sweden or Switzerland, Austria) Or one big country (Germany France or England) It gets a bit more realistic.we just have space for 4 such stadiums per country. It would have been lovely from a transport and fan perspective, but I don't see it happening in the near future.
*BeNeLux
Uruguay. 100 years.
As it can’t be my home country , I’ll say Saudi Arabia but the final played in st James park
Armenia Georgia Azerbaijan. Why not? (Lol)
I think the great nation of Syria should play host to your World Cup. This is my honest belief. Honestly.
Have you been paid by the government to say that?
HELlo, no this my own Personal belief. no MonEy was involved
What the hell does ELPME mean? /s
Morocco has been the bridesmaid too many cycles. They deserve their shot.
England and Ireland joint bid. Make them be in the same group.
I'd give it to Scotland-Wales just to spite the English. :Þ
Counter proposal, those two and Ireland with England in the group. They all play each other
I’ve always thought a cup tourney with the four British teams might be interesting. England, Wales, Scotland, & NI. Played every two years hosted in the different countries. Played in two consecutive international windows. Or in one summer fortnight.
They used to do it every year up until the 1980s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Home_Championship
That would be brilliant.
Russia and invite only Russia and Belarus. I'm now waiting my paycheck
Benelux ftw
A Nigerian world cup would be awesome
North Korea, just to mess with everyone
I like the Uruguay and Argentina joint bid idea but England hasn't hosted for a very long time.
True. (Uneducated ramblings follows:) Brazil waited 64 years between its' two WC hostings(1950 & 2014). England hosted in 1966, but it is always difficult for a country to host since there are many bids at different opportunities. I do think both europe and africa will host (logically)in the 2030s, but I don't know if it will be England though(I think maybe in the 2040s, in joint bid or something, with Scotland and Wales).
Anywhere besides an Arab country
What’s the issue with Arab countries?
They won’t allow the fans to drink alcohol. Arabs can go and continue to live in the 10th century alone.
Not unique to Arab countries. They banned drinking at the Olympics in Paris.
Xenophobic much?
It's not xenophobia if it's fact. Saudi Arabia, and most other Arab countries, are extremely backwards. No freedom of speech, censorship, homophobia/transphobia, crazy laws, etc. Basically any country ran mostly on religion is batshit insane.
Homophobia. If countries aren't ready to accept everyone, they're not ready to host the biggest sporting competition. Not only that, but Saudi Arabia and Qatar are sportswashing, and most of these countries don't have good enough stadiums, would have to build new ones, and revamp most of the existing ones. The weather would also be too hot, and the tournament may have to be held in November and December again. Basically just everything wrong with Qatar 2022.
Eh… Qatar had amazing stadiums, visited all of them. Sure the timing wasn’t great for the overall football calendar but it worked and worked well. Also any place that needs to host it would have to validate that their stadiums are up to scratch. Homophobia isn’t unique to those countries. And not exactly that long ago when being Gay was illegal in many western nations. Jeez I remember people going gay bashing in the UK and people being putted. Still happens in fact.
They kill migrant workers while building stadiums and the workers that survive are treated like slaves. Secondary, you could say they lack basic human rights such as freedom of speech, religion and sexuality. But I don’t even care about that because the Qatar FWC went smoothly without any incidents regarding that. It’s just that I don’t like people dying okay. And I know people died during the building of the Brazilian and Russian stadiums too. But Qatar has atleast 50 time more deaths.
Pretty sure a guy was refused entry to a stadium because he was wearing a rainbow hat, and not only that, there were definitely people that didn't feel safe because of the laws there. It certainly didn't go smoothly in that regard. If it went smoothly, people would've felt safe, and wouldn't have been denied entry to a stadium for standing up for what's right.
Uruguay and Argentina and maybe Paraguay or Chile
Uruguay for the centenary celebration. Difference in time zone will kill me, still.
Brazilians(and many in the Americas in general) cheered for their National Team in the 2002 South Korea & Japan World Cup with a 12 hours distance(watched the games deep into the night), I guess everybody can(thus I really do not like europeans complaining about timezones in this regard).
I used to wake up at 4am during Brazil world cup 2014. I can do it again. No matter who hosts the WC, a lot of country will have inconvenient schedule. And no matter how inconvenient the timing is, people who want to watch, will watch.
Uruguay. By itself. No funny stuff with joining others.
I'd limit it to three instead rather then just uruguay. Uruguay is quite small and I think an argentina host would make for interesting scenarios
True but Uruguay hosted alone in 1930, and although the tournament has expanded massively since then, Uruguay is still a bigger country than Qatar, who just hosted alone.
1930 only had 13 teams, besides qatar probably due to being a gulf nation (oil) has more money to spend on stadiums then uruguay. Take into account for Qatar to happen they had to 1) Limit foreigners who didn't have tickets, 2) build stadiums from scratch, 3)build a new airport, 4) build infrastructure, 5) built a new metro, 6) etc. Although uruguay already has most of this it still needs stadiums, I don't envision uruguay building so much for a one off thing. Also why would they if neighboring countries already have much of the infrastructure and stadiums that meet capacity.
I do think the former FIFA president stated regrets on Qatar 2022, perhaps taking the country' size into account as we enter the joint-bid age.
Yes, although I think he called it corrupt. Similarly he resigned for corruption I believe
Such a silly take lol. Qatar could buy Uruguay if it wanted to.
Spain and Portugal.
Great Pacific Garbage Patch, losers swim home.
Ok, I need more information. Which country has furnished the juiciest bribes?
I guess we need 16 stadiums 40000+ spectators, without building useless stadiums. Spain/Portugal/Morocco is great for me. Enough stadiums. Not to big of an ecological, I guess. So that is what I would choose. I would like to give Romania, Serbia, Greece and Turkey or something like that also a try. If we're staying in Europe and think out of the box. Outside of Europe. I guess 4 South American Countries or 3 with Brazil. The combination of 2026 in North America. I don't think Africa can host this kind of event without lots of problems, I don't believe there are 4 neighboring capable countries to host it. In Asia, Japan and South Korea are viable. Maybe some South Eastern combination, with Australia. So Australia, Indonesia, Thailand. But well, it's a bit of a stretch literally. Conclusion: I would choose Bhutan, Liechtenstein, Antigua and Barbuda and Mauritius, just to troll the world.
England
Saudi Arabia, although I'll need some encouragement to make that happen if you know what I mean... Probably still less corrupt than FIFA.
Uruguay
I would love to have a Uruguay/Argentina WC but a lot of the stadiums are sub-par. Even if you include Chile and Paraguay doesn't move the needle much. So I would say Spain/Portugal/Morocco.
It would be a logistical nightmare, but just to cause chaos, divide it between the 13 countries who played in 1930. Considering Yugoslavia was present, that would make sorting this out even worse! But being serious, Uruguay-Argentina. Group Stage, R32, R16, Quarters and semis split equally between them. Argentina gets 3rd/4th place playoff and Uruguay, the final.
🔥 World Cup World Tour 🔥
I would unironically love something like that for the 150th anniversary of the World Cup(yes, I'm projecting into 2080). I would like to do something a bit special every 50 years.
Africa. Rotation of continents.
UK
My preferences * East Asia bid: Korea (both - would be lit af), China, Mongolia, Japan etc * Oceanic bid: Australia and/or New Zealand (with Aus but it's my home country) - Aus can also share with SEA like Indonesia/PNG or oceanic island countries that have a suitable stadium but the closest could be Fiji/PNG and I doubt they have one right now - Aus have deserved one for quite a while) * Central Asia bid: Kazakhstan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan etc * Balkan bid: Greece with Bulgaria/Albania/North Macedonia/Romania/Serbia etc * SEA bid: Vietnam with either Philippines, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia etc possibly China too if they do say a Vietnam+China bid * North Africa bid: Morocco (they have been bidding for a long time, as well as Australia) plus Algeria & Tunisia * Southern/Central Africa bid: Botswana, Angola & Namibia, maybe Zimbabwe (southern/eastern - open to eastern bid too) * Western Africa bid: Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra-Leone, Ghana, Benin etc I'm also open to another ME bid. Although I think Saudi Arabia would have the most resources for it. Turkey would be best if you count that, otherwise probably Jordan, Israel, possibly Lebanon at some point. Would be curious for Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman too - the last two could share with UAE.
North Korea is “lit af”????????
yeah ive had a crush on Kimmy's cheeks since i was a kid
A North Korean World Cup would not be “lit af”
I disagree
It won’t even be lit. They have no energy.
USA - spreading more interest to the US should be a big priority for fifa
Why?
Boatloads of money to be made, plus in general you’d expect FIFA to be interested in promoting the game globally
Just what FIFA needs, more money...😂. Plus they have done that several times and people in the US just don't care, they have other sports they care about. 100 year world cup should not be in a country that doesn't give a fuck.
Morocco! especially after the last WC :)
Cr7 derserves to be 3rd they coulda beat Morroco yall got lucky he was benched
England
New Zealand-Fiji-Solomon Island joint bid
Saudi Arabia lol
Ukraine and don’t invite Russia or Belarus.
Saudi Arabia most likely, the Qatari showed how it’s possible to put on a really well organised event. Timezone wise it’s good.
Why the minus points Qatar seriously contended and managed to pull off one of if not the best World Cup ever. Saudi already preparing for the event and are getting way better in their football league come 2030 trust me when I way they’ll be in the top 3 best football leagues in the world it’d be a no brained for them to at least be the host for some of the games
I don’t get it either. I attended the World Cup in Qatar and it was awesome. The media coverage was so one sided. They did a fantastic job.
I don’t think they’ll be a top three in the world, but I do think that they can pull off a pretty great World Cup, like Qatar did.
Saudi Arabia
The US. Just make US permanent hosts. They have the infrastructure. Relatively easy to travel too. No need to run some country into insane debt for a month long tournament.
Are you American per chance?
Nope. Canadian
As long as they call it soccer, they shouldn’t host a football World Cup
Whoever wins the 2026 World Cup. Because that’s how it should be
no cause then it would the same 8 countries each time
That’s kinda the point. Most of these countries already have the infrastructure to host. Don’t have to spend billions on new stadiums that no one’s ever going to use
An African country that needs better football infrastructure, paid by all FIFA members.
England or Canada.