The 2030 edition of the tournament will mark the centenary of football’s marquee event.
It will be hosted in Morocco, Spain, and Portugal, with Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay set to host three games.
The World Cup was expanded from 32 to 48 teams for the 2026 edition in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada.
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A FIFA spokesperson revealed that a proposal to analyze a 64-team FIFA World Cup to celebrate the centenary of the FIFA World Cup in 2030 was spontaneously raised by a FIFA Council member in the miscellaneous agenda item near the end of the FIFA Council meeting held on March 5, 2025.
According to the spokesperson, the idea was acknowledged as FIFA has to analyze any proposal from one of its Council members.
It is believed that the proposal for the expansion was made by a delegate from Uruguay, Ignacio Alonso.