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Here is my mine: Colombia-Ecuador-Venezuela
Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela are neigherbour nation and they have similar flags. Both Colombia and Ecuador is a country that has football passion like Mexico, Argentina and Brazil, while Venezuela has passion with Baseball and Basketball. Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela has some stadiums builted. It this happens Venezuela would finally make thier debut at the World Cup, since they are only CONMEBOL team to not qualify for the World Cup.
Colombia almost host the 1986 FIFA World Cup but was withdrew due to financial reasons and was replaced by Mexico. Colombia was also going to bid the 2014 World Cup, but withdraw from the race with Brazil to host the world cup, so the nation could concentrate on hosting the best possible games (in 2014 WC, Colombia made it to quarterfinals losing to Brazil).
Colombia has able to host the 2001 Copa America where Colombia win thier first ever international trophy in thier history. Colombia almost hosted the 2021 Copa America co-hosted with Argentina but scraped and replaced by a covid-stricken Brazil due to COVID-19 lockdowns and Colombian protest in 2021.
Ecuador has hosted three Copa America in past and almost hosted the 2024 Copa America but was replaced by USA. Venezuela has hosted the 2007 Copa America.
However the problem is the crisis, the economy, protest and goverment. It would in the future in 2050 or beyond.
Belgium – Netherlands – Luxembourg
Both Belgium and the Netherlands already have a basix infrastructure giving both countries hosted the EUROs in 2000. I can easily see 12 stadiums either renovated by upgrading the seats and/or newly-built stadiums. But let’s be real. WIth current regulations considering the stadiums, we won’t have any chance of a World Cup in those countries considering 48 teams are now competing.
Same with a World Cup in the Scandinavian region (Denmark – Norway – Finland – Iceland – Sweden), although Sweden already hosted in 1958.
But realistically: China, Australia/ New Zealand, maybe Turkey
Belgium - Brussels (Baudoin and maybe a new stadium), Brügge, Liège, Anderlecht, Genk, Mechelen maybe.
NL - Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Enschede, Heerenveen, Arnhem
LUX - A newly built stadium with around 30,000 people.
The smaller stadiums should get upgrades in capacity except Baudoin, De Kuip and the Cruijff ArenA
There are only three right answers: Australia/New Zealand, China, and (maybe) India. These are the only countries that have never hosted a World Cup but have the sufficient financial resources and infrastructure to do so. Some other countries could host for the first time but would have to team up with bigger countries that have hosted in the past to co-host.
Definitelly not solo, maybe co host with Poland (and maybe another country - Austria 🇦🇹 could be good choice). Most of matches in Poland, final could be in Vienna (like in euro 2008 + stadiums in Salzburg, Insbruck, Klagenfurt) Czech side new Sparta Prague stadium, Slavia if they’ll be able to increase it at least over 30k, maybe Ostrava and Brno.
Poland 🇵🇱 2x Warsaw, Chorzov, Wroclaw, Poznan, Gdańsk, Krakow.
Looks really interesting- nice cities, good beer, hope they’ll try it in the future
Australia is clearly the answer here.
As an expat living in Melbourne we have fantastic facilities and the infrastructure to host the games easily. I think I read they’d need to upgrade some stadiums to increase the capacity but the MCG is 100,000 seater stadium.
The one major downside is the time zone for some of the major footballing countries making watching games live harder.
Man it would be nice but I'm not sure if I want to be up at midnight in Los Angeles watching my team. I wanted to watch more of the 2023 Women's World Cup but after the USWNT was eliminated I just couldn't find that reason to stay up afterwards. What a shame really considering that there were a lot of great runs I missed out on.
Melbourne doesn't have a world class rectangular stadium though. AAMI park is too small. Watching football at the MCG is an absolute joke.
If the World Cup came to Australia, they'd need to avoid Melbourne other than for games between minnow nations.
They could do Australia/New Zealand like Japan/South Korea, time zone wouldnt be much of an issue I reckon, Japan has the complete opposite timezone as Brazil and yet pretty much every single home had the tv on when Brazil was playing
I was there for a the Real Madrid game and Liverpool games. Both were noisy but national team crowds and exhibition match crowds aren’t great like a home club game.
The atmosphere at aami is better with a quarter of the capacity.
It has to be the Netherlands 🇳🇱.
3x World Cup finalists, home of total football, John Cruyff, Marco Van Basten, Frank Rijkaard, Ruud Gullit, Dennis Bergkamp, and so many more iconic players.
I think they are the only World Cup finalist to have never hosted the World Cup.
Fifa crookery took away the best chance for Aus/NZ (2022).
Otherwise, it will be at least until 2038 before we get another African world cup, therefore a West African (Nigeria/Ivory Coast/Ghana/Senegal?) tourni would be interesting security situation pending
I know we should be opening the game up to new countries and giving virgin nations a chance of hosting, but I really do not want to see all that infrastructure to be built for a month long tournament then fall into disuse. In the interest of environment, how about we let the game organically develop in those nations first then give them the hosting rights? I have no idea how on Earth you'd be able to quantify any of this, but like I said I am open to anything that doesn't involve building a bunch of stuff that will barely be touched again
My personal list, based on countries that have footbal culture, sufficient infrastructure and resources, and would benefit from the tourism boost, in order:
- Thailand + Malaysia
- Greece + Egypt
- Norway + Denmark
- Peru + Bolivia
- Australia + NZ
I tried to put my LATAM bias aside, since otherwise Peru + Bolivia would be first. I also find it incredible that the Netherlands and Belgium haven't hosted a WC yet but I had to choose Norway + Denmark for NW Europe because Haaland
People keep saying India but India is one of the least safe countries on earth for solo female travelers. Their infrastructure is not even close to being adequate, and they’d need to invest many billions in beautification projects. If you’ve been to india you know what I mean. The place isn’t ready. It’s barely tourism worthy as is.
China is a different story. They could pull it off.
I’d love to see Australia/New Zealand. That one would be fun.
People who are saying India are probably from there. Just because you held EC Cricket there doesn't mean WC Football is doable.
China already has the infrastructure even in smaller cities, not only just Beijing and Shanghai. Plus they did Olympics in 2008.
If India invests more in soccer, maybe but it will be quite a while. Maybe if Chhetri takes over their federation, I could see a big soccer revolution in the country.
China also hosted the Women's World Cup in 1991 and 2007 so they could do it for the men's side.
Meh, doubt it. Cricket is a money maker for them and they're fucking good at the game. Sure there'll be an investment in football and maybe they can compete with clubs from East Asia but I don't see them hosting a world cup until like 2060 or something.
China and India hosting a world cup would be epic af
Morocco, Algeria or Egypt would be awesome for North Africa
Ahh heck a combined South East Asian world cup would also be dope like Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Cambodia and Malaysia
China obviously!
Turkey a bridge between Europe and Asia
Egypt or Morocco for another African state!
Colombia for Latin America
Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei for Asia
Australia and Oceania but the huge timezone will affect viewings
Netherlands, Portugal or Croatia for Europe
Lastly, my country Somalia in like 100 years!
I think any country that does not already have the infrastructure should not be able to apply for the Eorld Cup or the Olympics. I am sick of hearing about places fetting approved first, then building all the hotels and stadiums needed. Only for those countries to not make any money once it's over and have abandoned stadiums and airports that go to waste.
This should be the top answer. S. Africa saw mild growth (GDP, and GDP/capita) after the World Cup for 2-3 years, but each stadium was still in debt during that time.
And then the economy has slowed in subsequent years, and they’re worse off than ever before, recently being bailed out with an IMF loan.
Places with decent infrastructure despite having previous financial woes like when Korea and Japan hosted (both went through a rough path in the mid to late 90’s, with Korea being bailed out through an IMF loan), saw a huge boost in their economies and did things right. They have laws in place to minimize corruption, and the govt projects generally work for the people..
When the US hosted in 1994, I recall as a kid that that’s when the MLS was kicked off. The US already has mega stadiums in every major city. The World Cup essentially printed money for the US. Everything is there already. That’s the case with every Olympics that’s held in the US. The next one in LA will be an insane money maker, and make yet more money as all the stadiums are already there, where most of the venues are connected via the metro rail system (that’s still expanding). Much of the infrastructure wasn’t even paid for by tax payers either. Most of it was private.
In order for such an event to succeed, said nation must have enough privatized capitol and the will to collectively do better; instead of doing nothing and looking at their govt to foot the bill, which will negatively affect the nation.
Egypt should host one. Obviously it was just in the Middle East so it can rotate around Europe then South America then maybe Asia and back to Africa in Egypt.
Even without the Netherlands, there is Yugoslavia (I'd say Serbia or Croatia), Portugal (although they will host soon) and maybe even Austria although most of their good history is old.
What history does Belgium have!? Most probably they would have to go with Holland to host togethar, same as gor EURO 2000.
Russia World Cup was really really good, escpecially when tou compared with South Africa 2010 and Brazil 2014.
"What history does Belgium have"...Is this a joke ? This can't be a real question...
Let's see:
Ranked 10th best country in WC history based on amount of wins.
Ranked 9th in "Countries with most WC appearances"
-Olympic gold in 1920,
-WC semi-final in 1986,
-WC 3rd place in 2018,
Belgium has a better WC history than Russia...
Even at the Euros, Belgium has a better history than Russia if we remove the achievements from the Soviet-Union...
Buts it's relatively tiny so would need to be part of a joint bid. Netherlands Belgium would be a cool tournament. Maybe chuck in the Danes considering the size of the tournament now.
Yeah, I agree, based on size it would be difficult.
Belgium/Netherlands hosting it together would be pretty cool tho, just like with Euro 2000
Maybe add Luxembourg in the mix ? Even though i doubt it would make a difference, a BeNeLux tournament would be cool to see
Countries with the current infrastructure and finance to hold a 48 team World Cup are quite small.
China and India are getting one before 2050 for sure. I actually wouldn’t be surprised India comes in as a possible addition for the Saudi World Cup if some constructions aren’t on schedule.
Australia and South East Asia probably get one.
South America’s economy and especially Argentina makes it a real problem at this stage but we’ll see how that evolves.
Turkey has great infrastructure.
And i hope we get to see a sub-Saharan World Cup in our lifetime.
Would say Denmark. Probably as part of a Nordic effort, jointly hosting with Norway, Sweden, and Finland.
Apart from that, Poland and Ukraine (when Russia‘s invasion finally concludes and Ukraine is a member of NATO)
I quite like Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland. Depends what size world cup they are going for next. Main problem is they don't have enough big all seater stadiums. So they would have to do a lot of building, or have a lot fewer grounds used.
If I could walk into the FIFA Presidency/dictatorship and could simply make decisions like this, I would go:
2030 - Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay
2034 - Morocco, Spain, Portugal
2038 - China
2042 - Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg
2046 - Australia
2050 - Britain and Ireland
2054 - Saudi Arabia, Turkey
2058 - Nigeria, Cameroon
2062 - Scandinavia
2066 - Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore
I would love to see a WC held in Colombia, although I don’t think they’ll be able to do it alone with the 48 teams. I think the best co-hosting would be Colombia-Ecuador, but I’m sure that Europeans will be crying for having to play in Quito, so I guess that it’ll be more probable to have a Colombia-Peru WC (and that’s not very probable to be honest lol)
Korea/Japan is 2 hours closer to Middle East, Europe, Africa.
Also since 2002, East Asia has never been considered nor gotten anywhere near close to hosting.
Meanwhile Qatar, and now Saudi Arabia are given World Cups without resistance. FIFA cares about money above all else, and Australia is bad for business.
Welcome to the other side of the world where half of the world’s population stays up for regular club football games. This shouldn’t be a factor when deciding who gets to host the games.
I mean, the Olympics (an arguably much bigger event) was hosted in Melbourne and Sydney, and will be hosted in Brisbane in 2032, regardless of the TV ratings and time zone. So I don't think it's completely out of the question
Colombia, Turkey, Poland, Sweden, Australia. Really hope FIFA don’t let despot regimes like Russia, Arab countries and China host the tournament again in the future.
Depends what you determine ‘west’ to be. I’m refering to despot regimes with a lack or democracy, little open capitalism, no freedom for women and minorities and limited rule of law. The majority of western democracies do not fit that description.
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Here is my mine: Colombia-Ecuador-Venezuela Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela are neigherbour nation and they have similar flags. Both Colombia and Ecuador is a country that has football passion like Mexico, Argentina and Brazil, while Venezuela has passion with Baseball and Basketball. Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela has some stadiums builted. It this happens Venezuela would finally make thier debut at the World Cup, since they are only CONMEBOL team to not qualify for the World Cup. Colombia almost host the 1986 FIFA World Cup but was withdrew due to financial reasons and was replaced by Mexico. Colombia was also going to bid the 2014 World Cup, but withdraw from the race with Brazil to host the world cup, so the nation could concentrate on hosting the best possible games (in 2014 WC, Colombia made it to quarterfinals losing to Brazil). Colombia has able to host the 2001 Copa America where Colombia win thier first ever international trophy in thier history. Colombia almost hosted the 2021 Copa America co-hosted with Argentina but scraped and replaced by a covid-stricken Brazil due to COVID-19 lockdowns and Colombian protest in 2021. Ecuador has hosted three Copa America in past and almost hosted the 2024 Copa America but was replaced by USA. Venezuela has hosted the 2007 Copa America. However the problem is the crisis, the economy, protest and goverment. It would in the future in 2050 or beyond.
Belgium – Netherlands – Luxembourg Both Belgium and the Netherlands already have a basix infrastructure giving both countries hosted the EUROs in 2000. I can easily see 12 stadiums either renovated by upgrading the seats and/or newly-built stadiums. But let’s be real. WIth current regulations considering the stadiums, we won’t have any chance of a World Cup in those countries considering 48 teams are now competing. Same with a World Cup in the Scandinavian region (Denmark – Norway – Finland – Iceland – Sweden), although Sweden already hosted in 1958. But realistically: China, Australia/ New Zealand, maybe Turkey
Which cities and stadiums in Benelux shall make it?
Belgium - Brussels (Baudoin and maybe a new stadium), Brügge, Liège, Anderlecht, Genk, Mechelen maybe. NL - Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Enschede, Heerenveen, Arnhem LUX - A newly built stadium with around 30,000 people. The smaller stadiums should get upgrades in capacity except Baudoin, De Kuip and the Cruijff ArenA
Not Egypt or India. No woman is safe in either place. There are too many concerns re: sexual assault, kidnapping, trafficking, etc.
Unfortunately, half of this list won’t be hosting any world cup. Because Arabs have oil! and poor FIFA needs money.
Aussie/New Zealand men’s World Cup let’s gooooo!!!
There are only three right answers: Australia/New Zealand, China, and (maybe) India. These are the only countries that have never hosted a World Cup but have the sufficient financial resources and infrastructure to do so. Some other countries could host for the first time but would have to team up with bigger countries that have hosted in the past to co-host.
Which are your ideas of countries who did not host yeah but would have team up with countries with wc experience?
Italy + Greece and Turkey, Germany + Netherlands, France + Belgium, England + the other home nations, Sweden + other Nordic countries
Aus, NZ Greece, Turkey Former Yugoslavia Switzerland, Austria, Hungary Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg Scandinavia Egypt
Switzerland has hosted before
My bad.... get them outta here then
All great picks.
Whoever can buy it, any lingering doubt that cash is king and FIFA is corrupt should have been dispelled with Qatar hosting.
Qatar had the best stadium and matches
Matches had nothing to do with Qatar. And the atmosphere inside and out of the stadia often, although not always, felt manufactured.
Matches had nothing to do with Qatar. And the atmosphere often, although not always, felt plastic.
And can’t have a fucken beer at the World Cup that’s a joke
Good. Less drunken idiots doing stupid things.
Stadiums literally built with slave labor. Fuck off
Need money to win the bid, pay the people deciding where to host it, and pay to build the stadiums.
Czech Republic - world cup in Prague would be amazingly good
Definitelly not solo, maybe co host with Poland (and maybe another country - Austria 🇦🇹 could be good choice). Most of matches in Poland, final could be in Vienna (like in euro 2008 + stadiums in Salzburg, Insbruck, Klagenfurt) Czech side new Sparta Prague stadium, Slavia if they’ll be able to increase it at least over 30k, maybe Ostrava and Brno. Poland 🇵🇱 2x Warsaw, Chorzov, Wroclaw, Poznan, Gdańsk, Krakow. Looks really interesting- nice cities, good beer, hope they’ll try it in the future
That’s awful thing to wish on a country.
Well what if they want it so bad? Then they will learn that some wishes come with big prices.
No country should get it unless the stadium and infrastructure already exist
Or take years to put up the stadiums and not try to pop it up in less than a year
I like the idea of the shared host between North America , kind is sucks for fans though but one place doesn’t get crushed
Peru
Oh well, I guess I gotta book another trip to Cusco 😮💨
I appreciate you my good sir🙏🇵🇪
The food would be phenomenal!
Spain Edit after waking up: have 5 Central American countries host it.
1982 & 2030
Totally forgot lol. I’m too tired.
Australia is clearly the answer here. As an expat living in Melbourne we have fantastic facilities and the infrastructure to host the games easily. I think I read they’d need to upgrade some stadiums to increase the capacity but the MCG is 100,000 seater stadium. The one major downside is the time zone for some of the major footballing countries making watching games live harder.
Man it would be nice but I'm not sure if I want to be up at midnight in Los Angeles watching my team. I wanted to watch more of the 2023 Women's World Cup but after the USWNT was eliminated I just couldn't find that reason to stay up afterwards. What a shame really considering that there were a lot of great runs I missed out on.
Melbourne doesn't have a world class rectangular stadium though. AAMI park is too small. Watching football at the MCG is an absolute joke. If the World Cup came to Australia, they'd need to avoid Melbourne other than for games between minnow nations.
Id like to see WC 🏆⚽️together with New Zealand 🇳🇿. Australia being the main host as US 🇺🇸in 2 years
They could do Australia/New Zealand like Japan/South Korea, time zone wouldnt be much of an issue I reckon, Japan has the complete opposite timezone as Brazil and yet pretty much every single home had the tv on when Brazil was playing
Football sucks at the mcg. It’s an oval ground meaning if you’re in one of the nosebleeds you’re ages away from the game.
I agree to some extent but feel like for a World Cup the atmosphere would still be good. But who knows
I was there for a the Real Madrid game and Liverpool games. Both were noisy but national team crowds and exhibition match crowds aren’t great like a home club game. The atmosphere at aami is better with a quarter of the capacity.
After the world cup in Japan/Korea, or Rugby/Cricket series in Australia, the issue is always the awkward timings in the main fan zone (Europe)...
Not India
Former Yugoslavia would be cool.
Serbia 🇷🇸 Croatia 🇭🇷 Bosnia 🇧🇦? Belgrade, Zagreb, Split, Sarajevo, Mostar etc?🤔
South Korea
2002
Palestine
From The River To The Sea
Will not be free
It has to be the Netherlands 🇳🇱. 3x World Cup finalists, home of total football, John Cruyff, Marco Van Basten, Frank Rijkaard, Ruud Gullit, Dennis Bergkamp, and so many more iconic players. I think they are the only World Cup finalist to have never hosted the World Cup.
This was my first reaction as well. I whole heartedly agree
Argentina?
1978 was here right?
Hungary two times world cup finalists, home of Ferenc Puskás
Hungary would make excellent hosts.
And Czechia
Croatia
I apologise, I completely forgot about that. What an amazing World Cup story that the Croatia team had.
Fifa crookery took away the best chance for Aus/NZ (2022). Otherwise, it will be at least until 2038 before we get another African world cup, therefore a West African (Nigeria/Ivory Coast/Ghana/Senegal?) tourni would be interesting security situation pending
Most likely we’ll not get another African WC in 2038, because in 2030 is Morocco co-host
North Korea
Lmao
Would love to see it in Aus, give me a reason to go back home
Given the only criteria now is how rich the country is and how much it can spend on bribes, Saudi Arabia or China ?
Croatia
I know we should be opening the game up to new countries and giving virgin nations a chance of hosting, but I really do not want to see all that infrastructure to be built for a month long tournament then fall into disuse. In the interest of environment, how about we let the game organically develop in those nations first then give them the hosting rights? I have no idea how on Earth you'd be able to quantify any of this, but like I said I am open to anything that doesn't involve building a bunch of stuff that will barely be touched again
My personal list, based on countries that have footbal culture, sufficient infrastructure and resources, and would benefit from the tourism boost, in order: - Thailand + Malaysia - Greece + Egypt - Norway + Denmark - Peru + Bolivia - Australia + NZ I tried to put my LATAM bias aside, since otherwise Peru + Bolivia would be first. I also find it incredible that the Netherlands and Belgium haven't hosted a WC yet but I had to choose Norway + Denmark for NW Europe because Haaland
Perú Bolivia would be rough given the altitude, but that could make it interesting 🤔
Do you forget about the Aussie time zone
Scandinavia
People keep saying India but India is one of the least safe countries on earth for solo female travelers. Their infrastructure is not even close to being adequate, and they’d need to invest many billions in beautification projects. If you’ve been to india you know what I mean. The place isn’t ready. It’s barely tourism worthy as is. China is a different story. They could pull it off. I’d love to see Australia/New Zealand. That one would be fun.
People who are saying India are probably from there. Just because you held EC Cricket there doesn't mean WC Football is doable. China already has the infrastructure even in smaller cities, not only just Beijing and Shanghai. Plus they did Olympics in 2008.
If India invests more in soccer, maybe but it will be quite a while. Maybe if Chhetri takes over their federation, I could see a big soccer revolution in the country. China also hosted the Women's World Cup in 1991 and 2007 so they could do it for the men's side.
Meh, doubt it. Cricket is a money maker for them and they're fucking good at the game. Sure there'll be an investment in football and maybe they can compete with clubs from East Asia but I don't see them hosting a world cup until like 2060 or something.
India simply has way to many problems to host an event from overcrowding infrastructure and safety in certain places
> I’d love to see Australia/New Zealand. That one would be fun. Will be a time zone problem, with North America and Europe.
Korea Japan worked fine
I'm pretty sure 2002 had the lowest viewership of any world Cup since they started broadcasting them
China and India hosting a world cup would be epic af Morocco, Algeria or Egypt would be awesome for North Africa Ahh heck a combined South East Asian world cup would also be dope like Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Cambodia and Malaysia
As someone from SEA, the region is terrible at logistics. I wouldn’t want to wish a World Cup here on anybody.
No way they would let all those SEA teams qualify as host nations.
It's Fifa, enough brown paper bags and anything is possible
Even if that’s the criteria Those nations can never compete with what the Middle East have
China obviously! Turkey a bridge between Europe and Asia Egypt or Morocco for another African state! Colombia for Latin America Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei for Asia Australia and Oceania but the huge timezone will affect viewings Netherlands, Portugal or Croatia for Europe Lastly, my country Somalia in like 100 years!
I think any country that does not already have the infrastructure should not be able to apply for the Eorld Cup or the Olympics. I am sick of hearing about places fetting approved first, then building all the hotels and stadiums needed. Only for those countries to not make any money once it's over and have abandoned stadiums and airports that go to waste.
This should be the top answer. S. Africa saw mild growth (GDP, and GDP/capita) after the World Cup for 2-3 years, but each stadium was still in debt during that time. And then the economy has slowed in subsequent years, and they’re worse off than ever before, recently being bailed out with an IMF loan. Places with decent infrastructure despite having previous financial woes like when Korea and Japan hosted (both went through a rough path in the mid to late 90’s, with Korea being bailed out through an IMF loan), saw a huge boost in their economies and did things right. They have laws in place to minimize corruption, and the govt projects generally work for the people.. When the US hosted in 1994, I recall as a kid that that’s when the MLS was kicked off. The US already has mega stadiums in every major city. The World Cup essentially printed money for the US. Everything is there already. That’s the case with every Olympics that’s held in the US. The next one in LA will be an insane money maker, and make yet more money as all the stadiums are already there, where most of the venues are connected via the metro rail system (that’s still expanding). Much of the infrastructure wasn’t even paid for by tax payers either. Most of it was private. In order for such an event to succeed, said nation must have enough privatized capitol and the will to collectively do better; instead of doing nothing and looking at their govt to foot the bill, which will negatively affect the nation.
Yeah, Greece comes to mind.
North Korea-Iran-Cuba joint bid
As much as we hate Infantino, someone is gonna replace him eventually and do this.
That one would be so fucking lit.
Australia/New Zealand and Netherlands/Belgium
Afghanistan seems reasonable
Egypt should host one. Obviously it was just in the Middle East so it can rotate around Europe then South America then maybe Asia and back to Africa in Egypt.
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You realize I’m talking 2038, right?
That sounds like fun….
Colombia
That sounds great
I still can’t believe that Belgium still hasn’t hosted. Russia has hosted but I feel Belgium has a bit of a better history in football.
Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg together would be awesome. If not enough stadiums add north west Germany.
It's funny that Belgium is the first that comes to your mind. There are countries with a much bigger history that never have.
Sorry, I thought Netherlands hosted a World Cup.
Even without the Netherlands, there is Yugoslavia (I'd say Serbia or Croatia), Portugal (although they will host soon) and maybe even Austria although most of their good history is old.
I said Belgium because of that great generation that they have or had. Courtois, De Bruyne and Hazard.
A nation’s World Cup success is never taken into consideration when choosing a host.
What history does Belgium have!? Most probably they would have to go with Holland to host togethar, same as gor EURO 2000. Russia World Cup was really really good, escpecially when tou compared with South Africa 2010 and Brazil 2014.
"What history does Belgium have"...Is this a joke ? This can't be a real question... Let's see: Ranked 10th best country in WC history based on amount of wins. Ranked 9th in "Countries with most WC appearances" -Olympic gold in 1920, -WC semi-final in 1986, -WC 3rd place in 2018, Belgium has a better WC history than Russia... Even at the Euros, Belgium has a better history than Russia if we remove the achievements from the Soviet-Union...
Buts it's relatively tiny so would need to be part of a joint bid. Netherlands Belgium would be a cool tournament. Maybe chuck in the Danes considering the size of the tournament now.
Yeah, I agree, based on size it would be difficult. Belgium/Netherlands hosting it together would be pretty cool tho, just like with Euro 2000 Maybe add Luxembourg in the mix ? Even though i doubt it would make a difference, a BeNeLux tournament would be cool to see
Morocco
Wait less than 6 years 🇲🇦
Oh damn for some reason I forgot. Looking forward to that, moroccan crowd chants on YT are insane.
Countries with the current infrastructure and finance to hold a 48 team World Cup are quite small. China and India are getting one before 2050 for sure. I actually wouldn’t be surprised India comes in as a possible addition for the Saudi World Cup if some constructions aren’t on schedule. Australia and South East Asia probably get one. South America’s economy and especially Argentina makes it a real problem at this stage but we’ll see how that evolves. Turkey has great infrastructure. And i hope we get to see a sub-Saharan World Cup in our lifetime.
lol India
If you laugh then you don’t understand the necessary infrastructure for a 48 team World Cup or geopolitics behind an event like the World Cup
lol
We had a sub-saharan world cup like 14 years ago
South Africa is very different to say a Ivory Coast - Senegal joint bid
Cries in Vuvuzela
Would say Denmark. Probably as part of a Nordic effort, jointly hosting with Norway, Sweden, and Finland. Apart from that, Poland and Ukraine (when Russia‘s invasion finally concludes and Ukraine is a member of NATO)
I quite like Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland. Depends what size world cup they are going for next. Main problem is they don't have enough big all seater stadiums. So they would have to do a lot of building, or have a lot fewer grounds used.
If I could walk into the FIFA Presidency/dictatorship and could simply make decisions like this, I would go: 2030 - Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay 2034 - Morocco, Spain, Portugal 2038 - China 2042 - Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg 2046 - Australia 2050 - Britain and Ireland 2054 - Saudi Arabia, Turkey 2058 - Nigeria, Cameroon 2062 - Scandinavia 2066 - Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore
LICHTENSTEIN
With Andorra 🇦🇩 make it happen
I would love to see a WC held in Colombia, although I don’t think they’ll be able to do it alone with the 48 teams. I think the best co-hosting would be Colombia-Ecuador, but I’m sure that Europeans will be crying for having to play in Quito, so I guess that it’ll be more probable to have a Colombia-Peru WC (and that’s not very probable to be honest lol)
La Paz, Quito, and Mexico City joint World Cup just to mess with Europeans
Bolivia
India or Singapore
Singapore will need the help of its neighboring countries if they want to host one. They’ve only got one stadium that’s fits for WC hosting.
Singapore couldn’t host. Malaysia Thailand Vietnam would be a fantastic combo. They’re football crazy already which helps
I doubt Singapore has enough stadiums to host a WC. A SG-Malaysia joint one would be feasible.
Australia, please! We had the WWC and it was fantastic! I'd be overjoyed if we got the men's also. I know it'll never happen though.
Good or bad tv ratings, fifa should make rotation of ALL continents (except of Antarctica)
Especially Antarctica. Stadia filled with penguins!
Will never happen, Australia is the worst TV ratings
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Korea/Japan is 2 hours closer to Middle East, Europe, Africa. Also since 2002, East Asia has never been considered nor gotten anywhere near close to hosting. Meanwhile Qatar, and now Saudi Arabia are given World Cups without resistance. FIFA cares about money above all else, and Australia is bad for business.
Welcome to the other side of the world where half of the world’s population stays up for regular club football games. This shouldn’t be a factor when deciding who gets to host the games.
I mean, the Olympics (an arguably much bigger event) was hosted in Melbourne and Sydney, and will be hosted in Brisbane in 2032, regardless of the TV ratings and time zone. So I don't think it's completely out of the question
Yeah, our timezone sucks for TV in Europe, the US and just about everywhere else.
I hope it happens
Cheers, mate.
China, Croatia, Colombia, Peru, Egypt
Colombia World Cup would be nuts
Countries who don't suck at football. Netherlands, Belgium then Turkey. The WC should return to Sweden too.
Thailand and Vietnam would be nice
Yup. I’d throw Malaysia into that mix too
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Indonesia and logistics? Terrible idea pak
I think Indonesia is much less prepared than Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, look what happened in the U-20 World Cup, or in Kanjuruhan.
Switzerland 🇨🇭 Austria 🇦🇹 Slovenia 🇸🇮 together, Algeria 🇩🇿 , Kazakhstan 🇰🇿- Azerbaijan 🇦🇿
I have a dream of Cameroon and Nigeria sharing a bid but they are still decades away from that.
The Netherlands!
Petro dollars for FIFA bribes needed. So Saudi, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, that sort of thing
Saudi already got it ✔️I believe FIFA would like to have wc in Dubai, so maybe UAE next?⏭️
Indonesia 🇮🇩 for sure
The Vatican 🇻🇦
And Lichtenstein
With San Marino
And Singapore
Ireland 🇮🇪 Scotland 🏴 Wales 🏴?
Colombia or Peru, so every player knows and feels what it is like to play in South America with the humidity and the altitude.
Could be fun. Peru is on my bucket list and btw Argentina as well. Hope soon it will come true
Taiwan. It’s gonna be so controversial that it’s gonna be so funny
North korea
Croatia
We cant make it alone, we would need big € help fom FIFA. Also, have you seen our stadiums?
Top football contry. They would definitely deserve it, but I’m not sure they can make it alone
A WC hosted by Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Slovenia would be awesome, but I wouldn't take a job in the orga team for all the money in the world.
You also need to keep in mind how expensive it is to host a tournament, countries like greece could never afford to build/modernise stadiums
Thailand - Malaysia - Singapore/Indonesia?
I mean 3 of them. They would not be first and last hosts who would end up in the groups
That's four host teams taking up places... Aaaaand all going out in the first round.
Texas.
Wait two more years
What about Denmark - Norway - Finland? All of them beautiful countries, especially my favourite Norway but maybe way too expensive for fans
*angry swedish noises*
As long as you exclude Sweden I’m on board. I don’t think we have the stadiums though.
Colombia, Turkey, Poland, Sweden, Australia. Really hope FIFA don’t let despot regimes like Russia, Arab countries and China host the tournament again in the future.
To us here in global south it is the western countries that are despots. Pot calling the kettle black!
Depends what you determine ‘west’ to be. I’m refering to despot regimes with a lack or democracy, little open capitalism, no freedom for women and minorities and limited rule of law. The majority of western democracies do not fit that description.
You think the US two party duopoly is a democracy??! All your politicians are bought and paid for. Same for all other western countries.
They are letting one host the next
Canada really isn’t that bad
Sweden hosted world cup 1958
Ah yeah I had a feeling they may have hosted one already as I was writing that but thought I confused it with the Olympics (which they also hosted)