World Cup 2030

[Winston Biscuit]

Spain-Portugal-Ukraine just launched a joint bid to host it

Confirmed bids so far:

Morocco

Joint Uruguay–Argentina–Chile–Paraguay

Joint Spain–Portugal–Ukraine

Joint Egypt–Greece–Saudi Arabia

Publicly expressed interest in hosting:

Joint South Korea with either North Korea, Japan or China

Joint Australia-indonesia

China

Algeria

Cameroon

Tunisia

Joint Colombia-Ecuador-Peru

Kazakhstan

Joint Israel-UAE-Bahrain

Joint Australia-New Zealand

[Winston Biscuit]

North Korea hosting the world cup would be insane!

imagine your games being scheduled in Pyongyang and you have to arrive 3 hours early to watch a military procession and applaud the dear leader!

[Hendo]

Uruguay–Argentina–Chile–Paraguay would be skillz.

Think Australia and NZ would also be pretty decent.

[Winston Biscuit]

I am going all in for Pyongyang 2030!!

[Hendo]

Well they do have the biggest stadium in the world*!

[Sutekh]

Spain-Portugal-Ukraine just launched a joint bid to host itd

talk about opportunists, Britain missed a trick there

[Green]

Uruguay–Argentina–Chile–Paraguay would be skillz.

Think Australia and NZ would also be pretty decent.

All for South America, but Paraguay couldn't host a piss up in a brewery.

[NathStPaul]

Uruguay–Argentina–Chile–Paraguay would be skillz.

Think Australia and NZ would also be pretty decent.

This would involve a lot of getting up really early. I remember Japan and Korea back in 2002 forcing pints down at 8am, wasn't nice.

[fartdad]

Aus/NZ sounds nice but yeah time differences suck. A Caribbean World Cup would be fun. Have a stadiums on a different islands. I guess auto qualification wouldn’t work, unless they have a joint carribean team.

[Hendo]

Yeah the time difference would suck for Aus/NZ, but to be fair, it sucks for them almost every tournament, so only seems fair...

[Stranded]

Yeah the time difference would suck for Aus/NZ, but to be fair, it sucks for them almost every tournament, so only seems fair...

Would also be fairly decent timings for the incredibly large Asian TV market.

If it does go to AUS/NZ and assuming it goes to 4 games a day (as this WC is) given the extra teams involved - then you would likely be looking at kick-offs at 2am, 5am, 8am and 11am UK time.

[Green]

Uruguay–Argentina–Chile–Paraguay would be skillz.

Think Australia and NZ would also be pretty decent.

This would involve a lot of getting up really early. I remember Japan and Korea back in 2002 forcing pints down at 8am, wasn't nice.

Yep *out* for that, nice as a one off novelty but wouldn't relish a tournament of it.

[Sutekh]

Uruguay–Argentina–Chile–Paraguay would be skillz.

Think Australia and NZ would also be pretty decent.

This would involve a lot of getting up really early. I remember Japan and Korea back in 2002 forcing pints down at 8am, wasn't nice.

Yep *out* for that, nice as a one off novelty but wouldn't relish a tournament of it.

I’d be in for that. Shame 2022 wasn’t switched there instead of allowing the corruption to stand.

[Ark Royal]

You have to admire Morocco for their persistence. How many bids is it now? I think a Morocco/Algeria joint bid would be a winner.