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.
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| Tournament details | |
| Host countries | Morocco Portugal Spain
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| Dates | 8 June – 21 July |
| Teams | 48 (from 6 confederations) |
| Venue | 19 (including centenary match hosts) (in 19 host cities) |
← 2026 2034 → | |
The tournament will be jointly hosted by Morocco, Portugal, and Spain; it would be the first across the Mediterranean Sea. 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.
Possible format and expansion
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.
Host selection
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.
| 2024 Extraordinary FIFA Congress 11 December 2024 – Zürich, Switzerland | |
| Nation | Round 1 |
|---|---|
| Morocco, Portugal, Spain | Acclamation |
Potential venues
292miles
- Morocco
- 1 Agadir
- 2 Casablanca
- 3 Fez
- 4 Marrakesh
- 5 Rabat
- 6 Tangier
- Portugal
- 7 Lisbon
- 8 Porto
- Spain
- 9 A Coruña
- 10 Barcelona
- 11 Bilbao
- 12 Las Palmas
- 13 Madrid
- 14 San Sebastián
- 15 Seville
- 16 Zaragoza
311miles
- Paraguay
- 1 Asunción
- Argentina
- 2 Buenos Aires
- Uruguay
- 3 Montevideo
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.
| City | Stadium | Capacity |
|---|---|---|
| A Coruña | Estadio Riazor (after renovation) | 42,000 |
| Agadir | Adrar Stadium (after renovation) | 46,000 |
| Barcelona | Camp Nou (after renovation) | 105,000 |
| RCDE Stadium | 40,000 | |
| Bilbao | San Mamés Stadium | 53,331 |
| Casablanca | Hassan II Stadium (new) | 115,000 |
| Fez | Fez Stadium (after renovation) | 55,800 |
| Las Palmas | Estadio Gran Canaria (after renovation) | 44,500 |
| Lisbon | Estádio da Luz | 68,100 |
| Estádio José Alvalade | 52,095 | |
| Madrid | Bernabéu | 83,186 |
| Metropolitano Stadium | 70,692 | |
| Marrakesh | Marrakesh Stadium (after renovation) | 45,860 |
| Porto | Estádio do Dragão | 50,033 |
| Rabat | Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium (new) | 68,700 |
| San Sebastián | Anoeta Stadium (after renovation) | 42,300 |
| Seville | Estadio de La Cartuja (after renovation) | 70,000 |
| Tangier | Ibn Batouta Stadium (after renovation) | 75,000 |
| Zaragoza | La Romareda (new) | 42,500 |
Three South American cities were also selected in the bid book to host the three centenary matches.
| City | Stadium | Capacity |
|---|---|---|
| Asunción | Estadio Osvaldo Domínguez Dibb (new) | 46,000 |
| Buenos Aires | Estadio Monumental | 85,018 |
| Montevideo | Estadio Centenario | 60,235 |
Teams
Qualification
All six host nations will qualify for the World Cup.
- Morocco (co-host)
- Argentina (anniversary match co-host)
- Paraguay (anniversary match co-host)
- Uruguay (anniversary match co-host)
- Portugal (co-host)
- Spain (co-host)
Marketing
Broadcasting
- Brazil – Grupo Globo
- Croatia – HRT
- Czech Republic – ČT, TV Nova
- Europe – EBU
- France – M6
- Hungary – MTVA
- Netherlands – NOS
- Romania – Antena
- Slovakia – TV JOJ
- South Korea - JTBC
- United Kingdom – BBC, ITV
Concerns and controversies
Inclusion of centenary match hosts
With the FIFA rotation system, CONCACAF (which won the rights to host the 2026 World Cup), CONMEBOL, UEFA, and CAF were unable to bid, leaving 2034 open only for the AFC and OFC. This led to accusations that FIFA intentionally selected these countries, especially those in the CONMEBOL region, to ensure that Saudi Arabia, an AFC member with major human rights controversies, would win its bid unopposed.
Dog culls
Morocco has been accused by several animal rights organisations of carrying out a mass cull of stray dogs in order to "clean up its image ahead of its co-hosting of the FIFA World Cup." Their number is estimated at three million, and the methods of slaughter include "poisoning with the highly toxic strychnine, shooting dogs in public spaces, and allegedly beating surviving animals to death with shovels."
Gen Z protests
In late September 2025, a series of popular protests erupted in several cities in Morocco by young people calling themselves Gen Z 212. The protests were sparked by the deterioration of the country's health and education systems, widespread youth unemployment, and the government's excessive spending on sports infrastructure in preparation for hosting the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations and the 2030 FIFA World Cup, which Morocco is co-hosting with Spain and Portugal.
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