DOHA: The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) wants to host another World Cup, in 2030 or 2034 after the hugely successful 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar.
Asia has staged the World Cup twice: in South Korea and Japan in 2002 and in 2022 in Qatar.
“I think Saudi Arabia is a country capable of organising a similar tournament,” said AFC president, Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa.
“But we have to choose the right time: 2030 or 2034? If our chance of hosting the tournament is better in 2034, we are looking into that, and if our conditions in 2030 are better, why not?”
In 2026, when the World Cup increases to 48 teams, it will split three ways for the first time with United States, Canada and Mexico as hosts.
There are two proposed multi-nation bids for 2030, one from Spain, Portugal and Morocco, and one by Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay, which would return the centenary World Cup to the site of the first final, in Montevideo. (AFP)
