FIFA to Review Spain-Portugal-Morocco Joint Bid for 2030 World Cup

This meeting, which will take place in Marrakech, will also allow FIFA to rule on the move to 48 teams instead of 32 in this tournament, as well as the alternation between continents, reports the newspaper Al Akhbar.

Having officially received the approval of political leaders, this bid does not seem to please the leaders of European football who are calling for an exclusively European bid. UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) President Aleksander Ceferin has said he is opposed to the idea of a bid from different confederations, in this case the European with Spain and Portugal and the African with Morocco.

Aleksander Ceferin was also annoyed that this plan for a three-country bid had been developed by politicians and not by the football federation of the country in question. He is directly targeting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who made the proposal to King Mohammed VI and Prime Minister Saad-Eddine El Othmani.