Revolutionary proposal for the World Championship! The president of UEFA responds: “A bad idea!”
Article by Daniel Grigore – published on Friday, April 11, 2025, 09:40 / Updated on Friday, April 11, 2025 09:47
Alejandro Dominguez, President Conmebol, the forum governing South American football, proposes that the centenary edition of the World Championship, the 2030, include 64 teams instead of 48!
Starting with the 2026 edition, the World Championship will have 48 teams, an expansion by 50% compared to the previous 32.
Also 48 teams would also participate in the centenary edition of the World Tournament, in 2030, but one of the most important football names, President Conmebol, UEFA equivalent for South America, He wants more!
More precisely, doubling the number of teams that participated in the latest edition, the one from 2022.
President Conmebol asks for 64 teams at the 2030 World Championship
Thursday, at the Conmebol Congress, Dominguez explained: “We are convinced that the Centenary holiday will be unique, 100 years since its establishment happens once. That's why we propose, only this time, to have 64 teams, which will play simultaneously on 3 continents. Thus, all countries will have the opportunity to live a global experience and no one on this planet will be left outside the holiday. ”
This is not the first time that the South Americans come with this proposal. It was first raised by the official Uruguayan Ignacio Alonso at the FIFA Council meeting in March. UEFA President Aleksander Ceferi replied that “it is a bad idea, both for the World Championship and our qualifications”.
About the speech of Ignacio Alonso, a FIFA spokesman transmitted in March, quoted by The Athletic, that “it was a spontaneous idea by a member of the Council, towards the end of the meeting, at the” Diverse “chapter.
The 2030 edition will have a special format: the hosts of the first World Cup (1930), Uruguay, the 2022 winner, Argentina, and Paraguay, the country where Conmebol is based, will host a match from the beginning of the tournament, and the rest will play in Morocco, Portugal and Spain.
