The FIFA Council meeting in Miami on Friday will give its verdict on an internal feasibility study which supported increasing the number of teams ...
MIAMI: FIFA chiefs will decide on Friday whether to back an expansion of the 2022 World Cup to 48 teams but a final decision will only be taken at a meeting in Paris in June, sources said on Thursday .
And any declaration of support by FIFA's Council on Friday would acknowledge that expansion in 2022 can only take place if one or more countries on Qatar's borders are able to host games, according to a document seen by AFP. But Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the UAE would only be candidates if their governments ended a diplomatic blockade of Qatar launched in 2017, the study said.A final decision on whether to expand the 2022 World Cup would be taken in Paris on Jun 6 after FIFA and Qatar jointly submit the names of potential co-host nations to the governing body's Congress.
The increase in teams will see the tournament feature 80 matches instead of the 64 used in a traditional 32-team World Cup.
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