Chinanews client, December 21st, on the 20th local time, FIFA held the latest global summit.
The focus of the discussion at this meeting is still the reform of the Men's World Cup.
According to data disclosed by FIFA, if the World Cup is changed to a two-year event, there will be an increase of 4.4 billion U.S. dollars in revenue.
At the FIFA General Assembly, FIFA presented a new version of the World Cup plan to the associations.
Starting from the 2026 World Cup, which is the World Cup co-hosted by the United States, Canada, and Mexico, the World Cup may be held every two years. From this time on, each World Cup will be increased to 48 teams, and will be divided. There are 16 groups with 3 teams in each group.
At the same time, the World Cup qualifiers will not be as scattered as they are currently, but will focus on the entire schedule within a month.
This time may be March or October the year before the competition, but it does not rule out the possibility of dividing the qualifiers into two parts.
According to FIFA's speculation, after the World Cup restructuring, the corresponding revenue will have a huge increase of 4.4 billion U.S. dollars.
FIFA will devote 3.5 billion to the development of global football, and the more frequent and larger-scale World Cup will also provide more than 2 million jobs.
And if the proposal for the World Cup every two years can be approved by the various continental football federations, FIFA will issue 1.6 billion U.S. dollars to each continental football federation.
According to foreign media reports, whether the World Cup will usher in a change, did not reach a conclusion at this conference, but need to wait until March 2022 before voting.
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