The Royal Spanish Football Federation announced this Thursday the 15 stadiums that aspire to be host of the 2030 World Cup, for which Spain will present a joint candidacy with Portugal, with many signs of being successful.
balaídos in VigoRiazor en A CoruñaEl Molinon in GijonSan Mames in BilbaoWrite down in Saint SebastianLa Romareda in ZaragozaCamp Nou and Cornellà-El Prat in BarcelonaNew Mestalla in ValenciaSantiago Bernabéu and Metropolitan in MadridLa Cartuja in SevillaThe Rose Garden in MálagaLa Condomina in Murcia and Gran Canaria in the palms They are the candidates. The venues will come from these cities, which could be around ten.
The list has been announced after a meeting held at the RFEF headquarters in Las Rozas by representatives of the Government and of the regional governments, town councils and country clubs that wish to host any of the matches of the event that will take place will celebrate in eight years.
renovations
However, many of them will have to undertake deep reforms for FIFA to give them the go-ahead as venues. One of the fundamental requirements is to have a minimum capacity of 40,000 spectatorssomething that only seven of those 15 stadiums currently meet.
Balaídos, Riazor, El Molinón, La Romareda, La Rosaleda, La Condomina and Gran Canaria would require remodeling of different sizes to complete the process. Separate mention deserves the Nou Mestalla, whose construction has not yet been reactivated, or the Camp Nou itself, also with a great pending work.
Between the absent stadiumsthe Martínez Valero from Elche, the Rico Pérez from Alicante, the Nuevo Zorrilla from Valladolid, the Carlos Tartiere from Oviedo and the Sánchez-Pizjuán and the Benito Villamarín from Seville, a city that bets everything on La Cartuja, the recurring headquarters of the Spanish team in recent years.
The candidacy will be completed with the stadiums that Portugal puts on the table. The two from Lisbon (A Luz and José Alvalade) and O Dragao from Porto They seem to be the clearest applicants and the only ones who currently meet the minimum capacity requirements.
“country project
“It is the country’s most important project that Spain can address in the coming years”, declared the president of the RFEF, Luis Rubiales, during a meeting attended, on behalf of the Government, by the general secretary of Culture and Sport, Víctor Francos, and the director of cabinet of the presidency of the CSD, Juan María Fernández Carnicer, as explained by the federation itself in a note.
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The cities and clubs that aspire to host the 2030 World Cup have already delivered the first part of the required documentation this Thursday. In any case, the RFEF anticipates that this process will remain open until Novemberwhen they will be announced, without a specific date defined yet, which will be the eleven venues.
The final decision on Whether or not Spain and Portugal will host the World Cup event will be decided by FIFA in May 2024. The RFEF is optimistic, in a process in which the concurrence of a South American candidacy is expected, with Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay involved, and perhaps one from Morocco. Candidacies that, in any case, have not yet been confirmed. It is known that the United Kingdom and Ireland will not attend, after having been designated as the venue for the 2028 European Championship.