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A 64-Team FIFA World Cup? Maybe It’s Not as Bad as It Sounds

Gianni Infantino has confirmed FIFA will consider expanding the World Cup from 48 to 64 teams. They’ve come up with far worse ideas than that. But who trusts FIFA to pull it off?

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A 64-team FIFA World Cup? Maybe it’s not as bad as it sounds

Gianni Infantino has confirmed FIFA will consider expanding the World Cup from 48 to 64 teams. They’ve come up with far worse ideas than that. But who trusts FIFA to pull it off?

·North Sydney, Australia
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DETROIT — FIFA President Gianni Infantino explained last Sunday that the possibility of a future expansion of the World Cup to 64 teams will be “examined and debated in the relevant committees” after the current tournament being held in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. The FIFA president emphasized that a […] The post FIFA does not rule out expanding the next World Cup to 64 teams: “It will be examined and debated” appeared first on Latino…

·Detroit, United States
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The president of FIFA has confirmed that he will analyze the possibility of extending the World Cup from 48 to 64 selections already in 2030, year of the centenary of the competition. Nothing is decided, but the debate promises to mark the next months. Portugal is co-organizer of the event in 2030, but Pedro Proença, president of the FPF, does not want to comment on the topic, at least for now

·Portugal
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More teams, more fairy tales, more chaos? Why does the XXL World Cup offer many opportunities for small nations – and yet it threatens to fail in its own size.

From 104 to 124 matches: the format of 16 groups of 4 selections that would have avoided the drama of the eliminations of powers like Italy and would have opened the door to historical debuts.

·Lima, Peru
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Buenos Aires, 14 July (NA) -- The 2030 World Cup will be a historic edition. Not only will it mark the centennial of the first World Cup, but it will also have an unpublished format, with matches distributed in three continents and six countries. As preparations progress, in recent weeks a proposal that could completely modify the tournament came back: FIFA analyzes the possibility of contesting the World Cup with 64 selections, an exceptional e…

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Jornal Expresso broke the news in Portugal on Tuesday, July 14, 2026.
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