For the first time,Four countries announce their candidacy to host the 2030 World Cup
Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Paraguay will officially announce
on Tuesday their joint bid to host the 2030 FIFA World Cup.
The official announcement of this nomination will done,
on Tuesday at 16:30 GMT, at the Centenario Stadium in Montevideo,
where the final match held in 1930 between Uruguay and Argentina.
The joint nomination of the four countries also aims to hold the final match
of the 2030 edition at the same stadium.
“As we celebrate the centenary of the World Cup, he should return to his home
country, South America,” Alejandro Dominguez, president of the South
American Football Association, CONMEBOL, wrote on Twitter.
“What we should focus on is the centenary of the World Cup,” Uruguayan Sports
Minister Sebastian Bausa said.
The four countries committed more than three years ago to establishing a local
organizing committee to coordinate with the game’s governing body in South
America to plan its nomination.
It will be the sixth edition of the World Cup to hold in South America,
after 1930 (Uruguay), 1950 (Brazil), 1962 (Chile), 1978 (Argentina) and 2014 (Brazil).
The South American file will face the joint nomination of Spain and Portugal,
which they announced in June 2021.
Britain and Ireland have dropped the idea of another joint bid to focus on
hosting the 2028 European Cup.
Only 13 teams participated in the first edition of the World Cup in 1930,
and the entire tournament played in the capital, Montevideo,
and in only three stadiums.
As for the 2030 edition, 48 teams will participate, and the four
South American candidates to host it expect to hold their matches in 15 stadiums.
It is worth noting that this is the first time that the number of countries
nominated to host the World Cup has reached four, knowing that
the 2026 edition will hold in three countries: the United States,
Mexico and Canada.
Four countries announce their candidacy to host the 2030 World Cup
