PARIS-. Apart from the Olympic Games from Paris, the FIFA has been doing business with its future hosts of the Men’s World Cup, including Saudi Arabia.
FIFA said on Monday it had received formal bid information in Paris from the leaders of the seven member federations, which are the exclusive bidders for the 2030 and 2034 World Cups.
The 2030 World Cup will be co-hosted by Spain, Portugal and Morocco, plus three South American neighbours Argentina, Paraguay and inaugural 1930 host Uruguay, who will each stage one of the tournament’s 104 games.
Saudi Arabia is the only candidate for the 2034 World Cup, which was fast-tracked by FIFA last year.
The two candidatures will be confirmed at an online meeting of FIFA’s 211 member associations on 11 December.
The proposed plans for the World Cup project are due to be detailed and published later this week. They are due to include plans for stadiums, hotels, training grounds, transport and national security.
“FIFA will carefully evaluate the bid books and publish its evaluation report” expected in the last quarter of the year, the world football body said in a statement.
World Cup candidates must also undergo an assessment of their human rights obligations in order to host the tournament. FIFA was invited in May to work with independent experts to assess the candidates.
FIFA’s human rights policy was introduced eight years ago after it awarded the 2018 and 2022 editions to Russia and Qatar respectively, and was applied for the first time to the 2026 tournament’s bidders.
The United States, Canada and Mexico will co-host the 2026 World Cup, the first with 48 teams instead of 32. They beat rival Morocco in a 134-65 vote decided in 2018 in Moscow.
Source: AP
