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Montevideo, July 21st 2026 - 23:24 UTC

Tag: 2030 World Cup

  • Tuesday, July 21st 2026 - 21:08 UTC

    Conmebol presses FIFA for a 64-team 2030 World Cup and more matches in South America

    The proposal, originally presented by Uruguay's Ignacio Alonso to the FIFA Council in March 2025 and taken up by Domínguez, faces strong opposition

    The South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) has stepped up its pressure on FIFA for the 2030 World Cup to be played with 64 teams, which would allow Uruguay, Argentina, and Paraguay to host more matches than currently planned. A day after the 2026 World Cup final, won by Spain, the body's president, Alejandro Domínguez, treated the format as all but settled in a message on the social network X: “In 2030 the World Cup is coming to Uruguay, Argentina, and Paraguay,” he wrote, proposing to mark the centenary “with a 64-team competition.”

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  • Wednesday, October 4th 2023 - 19:03 UTC

    South America to host Football 2030 World Cup first round matches

    Montevideo' Centenario Stadium is where it all began in 1930

    Although there is no confirmation yet from football's governing body FIFA, there were clues Wednesday morning that the 2030 finals might be played under a format never seen before in the competition's history that will be celebrating 100 years then.

  • Friday, August 5th 2022 - 10:02 UTC

    Joint bid to host 2030 football World Cup launched

    It would be the first time that as many as four countries host the World Cup.

    Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, and Chile have announced a joint bid to co-host the 2030 football World Cup finals under the motto “Together 2030.” The intended 2030 tournament will feature 48 teams and some 80 matches will be played in 14 stadiums. The last World Cup to be held in South America was ”Brazil 2014

  • Thursday, March 21st 2019 - 09:36 UTC

    Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay re-launch bid for 2030 World Cup

    Mauricio Macri, Sebastian Piñera, Mario Abo and Tabare Vazquez met with CONMEBOL chief Alejandro Dominguez in Buenos Aires

    Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay re-launched their bid to host the 2030 World Cup following a meeting of their presidents in Buenos Aires on Wednesday. The four national presidents committed to creating a local organizing committee with a representative from each country to coordinate with CONMEBOL, South American football's governing body.

  • Wednesday, December 19th 2018 - 08:49 UTC

    Bolivia offers to join Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay 2030 World Cup bid

    Morales made the offer to equally passionate presidents Macri of Argentina, Uruguay’s Vazquez and Paraguay's Abdo Benitez at the regional Mercosur summit

    Bolivia’s football-mad President Evo Morales has offered his Argentine, Uruguayan and Paraguayan counterparts help in their joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup.
    Morales made the offer to the equally passionate presidents, Mauricio Macri of Argentina, Uruguay’s Tabare Vazquez and Paraguayan Mario Abdo Benitez during regional Mercosur heads of state meeting in Montevideo.

  • Wednesday, November 21st 2018 - 08:26 UTC

    Spain, Portugal and Morocco interested in hosting the 2030 World Cup

    “It will be the first two-continent application with Europe and Africa, and King Mohammed VI welcomed the proposal warmly”, Spanish president Sanchez said

    Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said in Rabat that he had pitched the idea of a joint bid between his country, Portugal and Morocco to host the 2030 World Cup.

  • Friday, August 24th 2018 - 08:55 UTC

    Uruguay players support FIFA's decision to take temporary control of AUF

    FIFA officials said it decided to appoint a ”normalization committee'' that will run the AUF until Feb. 28, 2019

    Several Uruguayan international players used their social media channels to share a letter in support to FIFA's decision to take temporary control of the country's soccer federation because of governance concerns. The letter, tweeted out by team stars such as Luis Suarez and Diego Godin, says it would bring “transparency, democracy and plurality” to the federation, known as the AUF.

  • Thursday, October 5th 2017 - 08:18 UTC

    Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay launch bid to host the 2030 World Cup

    FIFA President Gianni Infantino met with the three leaders in Buenos Aires earlier in the day but did not take part in the news conference.

    Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay formally launched South America’s three-nation bid to host the 2030 World Cup on Wednesday and said Argentina would likely host the majority of the tournament’s stadiums. The presidents of the three nations, who announced in August that they were teaming up to bid for the tournament, kicked off the campaign at the Casa Rosada, Buenos Aires’ government palace.

  • Thursday, July 27th 2017 - 16:58 UTC

    Argentina and Uruguay plan to make a joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup

    Carlos Mac Allister said the presidents of both countries and leaders of the two national football federations had agreed to move ahead.

    Argentina and Uruguay are going ahead with plans to make a joint bid to host the 2030 World Cup despite expected competition from China and others .The South American neighbors are counting on sentimental support with Uruguay hosting the first World Cup in 1930.

  • Tuesday, March 29th 2016 - 06:37 UTC

    FIFA chief Infantino arrives in Uruguay; supports 2030 World Cup in River Plate

    “An important theme is whether the World Cup can be played in more than one country,” said Infantino. “I personally support it”.

    FIFA President Gianni Infantino who on Tuesday will be in Uruguay, gave tentative backing to a joint World Cup bid by Argentina and Uruguay on Monday, suggesting the history of the two South American nations made them serious candidates to host the tournament in 2030.

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