World Cup 2030 host cities and stadiums

The bid: twenty stadiums in seventeen cities

The bid book submitted in July 2024 named twenty stadiums in seventeen cities: six in Morocco, three in Portugal and eleven in Spain. Twenty is the most FIFA allows for one tournament, and that ceiling shaped the list — several Spanish cities that wanted in were left out because the quota was full.

Two Spanish hosts have since pulled out. Málaga withdrew in July 2025: renovating La Rosaleda would have moved the city's club, which has more than 26,000 season-ticket holders, into a temporary 12,500-seat ground, and the city decided against it. A Coruña followed in March 2026, citing the cost of hosting. Later that month the Spanish federation asked FIFA to bring in Valencia's Nou Mestalla and Vigo's Balaídos in their place. FIFA had not announced a decision on that request at the time of writing.

Spain

Spain is expected to stage the largest share of the tournament. Its list runs from the rebuilt Camp Nou, planned for around 105,000 spectators, to grounds of about 40,000, and reaches from the Basque coast to the Canary Islands, more than 1,700 kilometres from Madrid.

Morocco

Morocco put forward six cities, all with stadiums that are new or being rebuilt for the tournament. The centrepiece is the Hassan II Stadium outside Casablanca. With a planned capacity of 115,000 it would be the largest football stadium in the world, and Morocco has made no secret of wanting the final there.

Portugal

Portugal's part is the most compact: three existing stadiums in two cities, all built or rebuilt for Euro 2004 and all in regular use by the country's three biggest clubs.

The centenary venues

Three matches open the tournament in South America, one in each country that helped launch the World Cup a century earlier:

Who gets the final?

Not yet decided. The two names that come up are the Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid, recently rebuilt, and Casablanca's Hassan II Stadium, which does not exist yet but would hold some 30,000 more people. Spanish media have reported an understanding in favour of the Bernabéu; FIFA has announced nothing.

How the simulator uses host cities

Every match in the simulator carries a city, but only the country matters to the result. Morocco, Portugal and Spain play their group matches in their own country, and a host playing at home gets the same home advantage as a team playing a qualifier in front of its own crowd — worth about half a goal a game on real results. Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay get that advantage for one match only, their centenary opener. Everyone else plays on neutral ground.

The cities shown against individual matches follow the candidate list above as it stood in October 2026, with Valencia and Vigo in place of Málaga and A Coruña. They are assigned by a fixed rule so that a group stays in one country, and they put the final in Madrid; none of it is an official schedule. A game started before the list was brought up to date keeps the cities it began with. When FIFA publishes the real schedule the simulator will follow it. More on home advantage.