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The candidacy of Portugal, Spain and Morocco for the 2030 football World Cup has “clearly demonstrated the ability to successfully host” the tournament, according to the evaluation report released by FIFA.
By TPN/Lusa, in News, Portugal, Sport, World · 02 Dec 2024, 16:02 · 0 Comments
“Taking all aspects into consideration, the bid clearly demonstrated the ability to successfully host the 2030 World Cup. If successful, FIFA is excited to work together with the hosts from the outset to deliver a memorable and world-class edition of the World Cup, one that represents the latest in a century of tournaments – leaving an important and long-lived legacy for football and its global community,” the report said.
According to the same document, the candidacy of the three countries received a score of 4.2 out of five, therefore “exceeding the minimum requirements” to be selected at the FIFA Congress on December 11, the last step towards making this award official.
In addition to the bulk of the tournament played in these three countries, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay will host three games in the final phase, as a way of celebrating the centenary of the competition, whose first edition took place in Uruguay in 1930, after also receiving a favourable opinion from FIFA, with grade 3.6.
“Based on these results, as well as the full assessments, FIFA determined that these applications qualified for consideration by the FIFA Council and the FIFA Congress, as they exceeded the minimum requirements in the technical assessments to host the World Cup2030 and the Centenary Celebration,” adds the report.
The three Portuguese stadiums that will host World Cup 2030 games will be Estádio da Luz, Estádio José Alvalade, both in Lisbon, and Estádio do Dragão, in Porto.
Furthermore, Estádio da Luz – the only one of the three with a minimum capacity of 60 thousand seats – will host one of the semi-finals of the competition, revealed in April the president of the Portuguese Football Federation, Fernando Gomes.
Portugal debuts in organizing the World Cup, after having already hosted the 2004 European Championship, while Spain organized Euro1964 and the 1982 World Cup, and Morocco only hosted the African Cup of Nations (CAN) in 1988, a condition that it will repeat in 2025.
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