Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabeu might be selected as one of 15 venues if Spain-Portugal host the 2030 World Cup: Reports
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The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and the Government of Spain met this Thursday at the Ciudad del Ftbol de Las Rozas with representatives from autonomous communities, town councils, and clubs interested in hosting the Iberian bid for the 2030 World Cup. The project shared by Spain and Portugal has time to take shape until FIFA announces who will host the World Cup in two years.
The first step has been to officially announce the 15 Spanish stadiums that are in the running as potential venues for the tournament: Camp Nou (Barcelona), RCD Stadium (Barcelona), Santiago Bernabéu (Madrid), Metropolitano (Madrid), La Cartuja (Seville), La Nueva Condomina (Murcia), Gran Canaria Stadium (Las Palmas), La Rosaleda (Málaga), Mestalla (Valencia), San Mamés (Bilbao), Anoeta (San Sebastián), La Romareda (Zaragoza), El Molinón (Gijón), Riazor (A Corua), and Balados (Vigo), who submitted their candidacy after the deadline but were eventually approved by the RFEF, CSD, and the Government to be part of the triplet.
Spain will have to keep 11 of these stadiums and discard four. Three Portuguese stadiums will join the RFEF venues: two in Lisbon (Da Luz and José Alvalade) and one in Porto (Do Dragao). Barcelona’s Camp Nou, Atlético’s Wanda Metropolitano and Madrid’s Santiago Bernabéu highlight the initial list. Both the Camp Nou and the Santiago Bernabéu are expected to be fully renovated by the 2030 World Cup.
Major threat to Spain-Portugal hosting 2030 World Cup are quadruple of South-American countries
Another joint project shared by Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, and Paraguay in CONMEBOL is the main rival of the Iberian bid to host the World Cup.
The centennial of the first World Cup, held on Uruguayan soil in 1930, is the main endorsement of the South American candidacy, though if so, FIFA would disrupt the immaculate order of continental rotation that has been in place until now the previous World Cup, in 2026, will be held in Canada, Mexico, and the United States.
In any case, the final venue, on which the 211 federations of the world’s football’s highest body will vote, will not be announced until 2024. FIFA has yet to officially to release the official bid requirements for the 2030 World Cup, but Spain and Portugal are planning for a tournament with 48 nations, similar to the one in 2026 in the United States, Canada and México.
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