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World Cup 2030

londonblue

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We're considering bidding for it, and have government support:

BBC

Thoughts?

For what it's worth, now that FIFA seem (I suppose you could argue that is yet to be proven) to have cleaned up their act and the Germans don't have Beckenbauer to grease FIFA's palms, I think we might have a chance.
 
Unless we resort to legally questionable methods I can't see how this will win the vote. It will be exactly 100 years since the first world cup took place. I'd be amazed if they don't go with the joint South American bid simply because it means they could host the final in the Estadio Centenario, a stadium that was originally built specifically to host the first ever World Cup finals in 1930. Holding off until the 2034 process would make a lot more sense to me.
 
Unless we resort to legally questionable methods I can't see how this will win the vote. It will be exactly 100 years since the first world cup took place. I'd be amazed if they don't go with the joint South American bid simply because it means they could host the final in the Estadio Centenario, a stadium that was originally built specifically to host the first ever World Cup finals in 1930. Holding off until the 2034 process would make a lot more sense to me.

I think the various associations take it in turns, so I assume 2030 will be Europe's turn, and that is why they've chosen a date that far ahead.
 
I think the various associations take it in turns, so I assume 2030 will be Europe's turn, and that is why they've chosen a date that far ahead.
I don't think that's how it works otherwise a South America coalition wouldn't have announced their intention to bid. As far as I know there is no rule saying a specific continent has to host the world cup, instead the rule is just that it can't take place in the same federation as one the 2 previous world cups (so North America and Asia won't be allowed to bid for the 2030 world cup since 2022 is in Qatar and 2026 is a joint effort in USA, Mexico and Canada).
 
I don't think that's how it works otherwise a South America coalition wouldn't have announced their intention to bid. As far as I know there is no rule saying a specific continent has to host the world cup, instead the rule is just that it can't take place in the same federation as one the 2 previous world cups (so North America and Asia won't be allowed to bid for the 2030 world cup since 2022 is in Qatar and 2026 is a joint effort in USA, Mexico and Canada).

It is how it used to work. They may have ditched that policy though.
 
We should host a world cup in 2023. For all the countries who have done the right thing and boycotted Qatar.

Under the new world governing body as we will by then no longer recognise THIEFA.
With all the new rule that will save international football. Including cheats removed from the pitch and escorted straight to a plane in their kit and banned for life.

Its the peoples game and its time we took it back.
 
It is how it used to work. They may have ditched that policy though.

I've looked it up and it looks like they did rotate for a couple of world cups but the policy no longer exists.

Historically they didn't rotate but when Germany got it in 2006 there was a lot of controversy because South Africa only lost to Germany by a single vote and likely would have won the bid if Charlie Dempsey (who had previously said he'd vote for SA having been instructed to by his federation) hadn't decided to abstain at the last minute (possibly without his federation's consent). The scandal around SA's loss lead to FIFA announcing they'd rotate the continents (basically guarenteeing SA would win the 2010 bid as no other African nation would be able to compete with them) but they dropped this policy in 2018 and since then have reverted back to letting anyone bid so long as their continent hadn't hosted one of the last 2 world cups.
 
It is flirting with politics to even have this as a topic.
I have no doubt that governments nearly everywhere put pressure on their own FA s on how to vote and I don't see many votes coming positive for this from across the channel.

Who else is bidding? As they will likely get a "home" continet backing, which, as expressed above a UK, EUFA is not a certainty.
 
I've looked it up and it looks like they did rotate for a couple of world cups but the policy no longer exists.

Historically they didn't rotate but when Germany got it in 2006 there was a lot of controversy because South Africa only lost to Germany by a single vote and likely would have won the bid if Charlie Dempsey (who had previously said he'd vote for SA having been instructed to by his federation) hadn't decided to abstain at the last minute (possibly without his federation's consent). The scandal around SA's loss lead to FIFA announcing they'd rotate the continents (basically guarenteeing SA would win the 2010 bid as no other African nation would be able to compete with them) but they dropped this policy in 2018 and since then have reverted back to letting anyone bid so long as their continent hadn't hosted one of the last 2 world cups.

Interesting. I would also say SA would have won if Beckenbauer hadn't bribed the FIFA delegates, which he was later found to have done.

Either way, it would be great to have the World Cup here.

On a slightly different topic, hopefully the Euros will go ahead this summer and we can finally use the tickets we won in the ballot for the England/Czech Republic match.
 
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