Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread
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"Spending money" doesn't alone guarantee good results. According to reports, Qataris spent somewhere between $250 billion and $300 billion for hosting the FIFA World Cup in 2022. This is almost 10 times when compared to the amount spent by Russia to host the 2018 edition. And I am sure that the cost of costing the 2026 World Cup would also be much smaller when compared to that for Qatar. But then, most of the money spent was used to showoff the wealth rather than to create facilities for the players and fans. In the end, the fans were unhappy about overpriced facilities with low quality.
And the thing about Qatar is they spend money but they didn't get good results because in the end there are many people they were unhappy there in Qatar because of their Alcohol rules or because workers were killed there.
Just the chart and compare the money they spent and you can see the difference.
However one reason for increasing the hosting cost can be the inflation rate but the difference is still much more than other hosts, I'm sure America will spend less than this.
countries where soccer is not widely played, do not have many large soccer stadiums, for this reason that when they apply to organize the world cup they are obliged to spend a lot of money in the construction of many stadiums, and with that it is not only the construction of stadiums, they are obliged to build roads that will give access to the stadiums, they will have to build hotels near the stadium, so all these things they need to build make them spend a lot of money. while for a country that already has soccer games at a very high level, and already has many stadiums with great capacities, they are not going to spend a lot of money on organizing the world cup
I remember that when south africa organized the world cup they already had some stadiums but they had to modernize them to suit what fifa wanted. in the case of the next world cup, i think that mexico will have to build more modern stadiums or modernize the ones they already have, the usa will also have to have good stadiums. I don't know if Canada has many big stadiums or not. but one thing for me is clear that the world cup in canada - mexico - united states will be a good thing, they are countries that have customs that many people like so they felt good in these countries