{"id":324798,"date":"2025-04-10T16:52:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T16:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2025\/04\/10\/conmebol-push-for-64-team-2030-world-cup-to-celebrate-100-years\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T16:52:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T16:52:38","slug":"conmebol-push-for-64-team-2030-world-cup-to-celebrate-100-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2025\/04\/10\/conmebol-push-for-64-team-2030-world-cup-to-celebrate-100-years\/","title":{"rendered":"CONMEBOL push for 64-team 2030 World Cup to celebrate 100 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p id=\"article-123\">South America\u2019s football governing body, CONMEBOL, has officially requested that the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) expand the 2030 World Cup to 64 teams instead of the planned 48.<\/p>\n<p>According to CONMEBOL, the proposal aims to make the tournament a special one-off edition to commemorate 100 years since the very first World Cup in 1930.<\/p>\n<p>Alejandro Dom\u00ednguez, president of CONMEBOL, believes this expansion would allow nearly every country to participate in the centenary World Cup in 2030.<\/p>\n<p>The event is set to be held in Morocco, Spain, Portugal, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay, following an agreement in 2023 between CONMEBOL and FIFA. As part of the plan, Uruguay, Argentina, and Paraguay will each host one match to open the tournament before it moves to the main co-hosts: Spain, Portugal, and Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA has already granted automatic qualification to all six host nations\u2014a move seen as a political win for CONMEBOL\u2019s Paraguayan president, Alejandro Dom\u00ednguez.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA has also approved the first-ever 48-team World Cup, which will be played in 2026 across the United States, Canada, and Mexico.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"es\">\ud83d\udea8Alejandro Dom\u00ednguez, Presidente de Conmebol, propone que el Mundial de 2030 se juegue con 64 selecciones<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcccEste se har\u00e1 en Marruecos, Espa\u00f1a, Portugal, Argentina, Uruguay y Paraguay. Ser\u00e1 la celebraci\u00f3n del centenario de la primera Copa del Mundo<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfb<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ElVbarCaracol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ElVbarCaracol<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GNZiSHHHwX\">pic.twitter.com\/GNZiSHHHwX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 El VBAR CARACOL (@VBarCaracol) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VBarCaracol\/status\/1910342631768404115?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>FKA\/MA<\/p>\n<p><b>Meanwhile, watch the latest edition of Sports Check with veteran coach JE Sarpong<\/b><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"0eVTFx1gIu4\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sports Check with JE Sarpong: Black Stars&#039; resurgence and more\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0eVTFx1gIu4?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South America\u2019s football governing body, CONMEBOL, has officially requested that the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) expand the 2030 World Cup to 64 teams instead of the planned 48. According to CONMEBOL, the proposal aims to make the tournament a special one-off edition to commemorate 100 years since the very first World Cup in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":324799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>CONMEBOL push for 64-team 2030 World Cup to celebrate 100 years - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2025\/04\/10\/conmebol-push-for-64-team-2030-world-cup-to-celebrate-100-years\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CONMEBOL push for 64-team 2030 World Cup to celebrate 100 years - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"South America\u2019s football governing body, CONMEBOL, has officially requested that the F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) expand the 2030 World Cup to 64 teams instead of the planned 48. 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