Uruguayan football official Ignacio Alonso surprisingly proposed the additional increase at a FIFA Council meeting last month.

A push to expand the men's 2030 World Cup to 64 teams is “a bad idea,” UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin said on Thursday. Čeferin is a FIFA vice president who was part of a March 6 online meeting of the world soccer body's ruling council when the unexpected proposal was made by a delegate from Uruguay.

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The hosts for the 2030 and 2034 World Cup competitions have been confirmed. Here are all of the hosts in tournament history.

A FLAGSHIP World Cup 2030 venue is poised to complete an incredible transformation. Barcelona and Real Madrid will open Seville’s new-look La Cartuja Stadium on April 26. The site was built

One major African country has plans to build impressive new additions which would be part of a huge development. Morocco plans to build the world’s largest stadium and two new motorways.

The second list of 11 cities was sent to FIFA on June 29. It then featured in the joint candidacy which was ratified by a FIFA congress last December, with Spain, Portugal and Morocco unchallenged as tournament hosts — but that was not the final word on which cities and stadiums would host games in 2030.

The United States is the sole bidder for the 2031 Women's World Cup, and the United Kingdom is set to host the 2035 tournament, FIFA president Gianni Infantino announced on Thursday."We are honoured to be the sole bidder for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2035,

The United Kingdom appears set to host the 2035 Women's World Cup after FIFA President Gianni Infantino on Thursday described its interest as the "one valid bid" for the tournament.