FIFA will reportedly approve further expansion of North America\u0027s 2026 World Cup.
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Under the proposed changes, 48 teams will play 104 games over as many as 40 days in the United States, Canada and Mexico, with the champion and runner-up each playing eight games rather then the current seven. The governing council of FIFA, soccer’s global governing body and the World Cup organizer, is expected to make the expansion official, according to multiple reports citing unnamed people familiar with the discussions, at its meeting in Kigali, Rwanda.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.
The further expansion would not come without controversy, because it would mean the tournament could run for 40 days, compared with the 28 days of the Qatar competition. That would contribute to an already heavy schedule for the game’s top stars. The sport’s smaller nations have welcomed expansion, hoping to make the kind of underdog run Morocco made in last year’s World Cup.
Victor Montagliani, the president of Concacaf, the North American confederation, recently expressed concern about an already crammed soccer calendar. One solution might be a shorter warm-up period, although not as short as Qatar’s seven-day lead-up, which was truncated because last year’s event was held in the fall during the sport’s club season.
“We do have to be responsible,” he said at the Financial Times’ Business of Football conference this month. “There was a footprint of days for 2014 and 2018 and we can’t go over that. We can’t have a three-month World Cup.”
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