{"id":7991,"date":"2024-12-11T18:05:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T18:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/2030-world-cup-how-will-it-work\/"},"modified":"2024-12-11T18:05:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T18:05:34","slug":"2030-world-cup-how-will-it-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/2030-world-cup-how-will-it-work\/","title":{"rendered":"2030 World Cup: how will it work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This hasn&#8217;t been confirmed yet, though the <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalhub.fifa.com\/m\/1213a790af2911ab\/original\/FIFA-World-Cup-2030-Bid-Evaluation-Report.pdf\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">official bid evaluation report<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> contained 20 stadiums, split between the three co-hosts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spain looks set to stage the most matches, having put forward 11 stadiums.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That includes Barcelona&#8217;s Nou Camp &#8211; the largest football stadium in Europe &#8211; as well as Real Madrid&#8217;s Bernabeu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Nou Camp is under renovation which should take its capacity to 105,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Portugal is set to use three stadiums &#8211; Estadio Jose Alvalade, Estadio da Luz and Estadio do Dragao &#8211; the homes of Sporting CP, Benfica and Porto respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Morocco has put forward six stadiums.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The President of the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moroccoworldnews.com\/2023\/10\/358097\/six-moroccan-stadiums-to-host-world-cup-2030-games\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">announced last year that five existing stadiums would be used,<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> as well as a new stadium in the city of Casablanca.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This will be the first time World Cup matches are held in North Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The stadiums proposed to host the final are the Bernabeu, Nou Camp and Morocco&#8217;s Grand Stade Hassan II, which is being built.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cqx80eqqyero\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This hasn&#8217;t been confirmed yet, though the official bid evaluation report, external contained 20 stadiums, split between the three co-hosts. Spain looks set to stage the most matches, having put forward 11 stadiums. That includes Barcelona&#8217;s Nou Camp &#8211; the largest football stadium in Europe &#8211; as well as Real Madrid&#8217;s Bernabeu. The Nou Camp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7993,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7991\/revisions\/7993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}