Re: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread

With the increase on the number of teams I do not think FIFA has too much of a choice, the amount of money needed to organize the tournament has gone up while the logistic issues have scaled up as well, so it seems to me that the right decision was to let more than one country to host the world cup, what it must never happen again is to allow a country or a group of countries to buy the world cup, which is exactly what Qatar and probably Russia did before.

That doesn't matter by increasing the number of countries hosting the World Cup or countries being able to do it together, but there shouldn't be more than two countries because it will affect the number of countries that have the opportunity to qualify, because the host country will get automatic participation in the world cup later. If there are only two organizers, it will be easier to divide the portion of the matches for each country, each will get the same number of matches, one as the opening and the other as the closing, but FIFA always has an excuse because they are the organization with the power to regulate this, but if the 2030 World Cup organizers are won by 4 countries from the Americas how unpleasant that would be because it reduces the chances of other countries in CONMEBOL qualifying for the World Cup.

I have to admit that it all makes no sense to me anymore.
Once upon a time, we had world cups with only 16 national teams and only 1 host.
In a few years we will have a world cup with 48 national teams and 3 hosts, and I would not be surprised if in 2030 FIFA organizes a world cup with 64 national teams and 4 hosts.
Obviously, FIFA no longer cares about football but only about making money, so maybe in 20 or 30 years we won't have qualifications for the World Cup at all because all the national teams of the world will have the right to participate Grin

I'm almost certain we'll have a world cup every 2 years soon.
All together this no longer makes sense.

A world cup every two years is probably coming, however I do not think FIFA will ever get rid of the qualifiers, the qualifiers themselves take 18 months to 24 months to take place and there are way more games during the qualifiers than during the world cup, and as such they are another important source of income for FIFA and the rest of the federations, however I really think FIFA is abusing its power and the more they do it the higher the chances some players will begin to boycott the qualifiers and even the world cup, as they are exhausted already with the high number of games they need to play each year and they will be unable to deal with the additional number of games a world cup every two years would entail.

We already talking about having the world cup every two or three years instead of fours years and we all know if you see the world cup in a shorter period of time you won't have an interest to watch the games anymore because one good reason for people to have interest on watching the world cup is mostly that they have to wait fours years and get themselves ready for it which can increase the interest.

I can somewhat agree with you. Actually FIFA football world cup is held after four years is very patience. As football fans are now addicted to football, FIFA can host the World Cup every two years if they want, because every country is now economically self-sufficient.