Road to 2030: Spain, Portugal and Morocco to host the centenary
With the 2026 World Cup already in the history books, attention turns to 2030. The next tournament, marking the centenary of the World Cup, will be hosted by Spain, Portugal and Morocco, with three opening matches in South America.
The curtain has fallen on the 2026 World Cup, but football does not stop: the calendar already points to 2030, a very special edition because it will celebrate the centenary of the first World Cup, played in Uruguay in 1930.
The 2030 tournament will have a main host shared across three countries and two continents: Spain, Portugal and Morocco will be the primary hosts. In addition, in tribute to that founding World Cup, three opening matches are set to be played in South America —Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay— thus linking the tournament's origin and present.
For Spain, who have just won their second star in 2026, the event comes at a sweet moment: they will be, in part, hosts barely four years after touching the sky in North America. And for Morocco, a leading semi-finalist of African football, staging a World Cup is a historic leap.
Four years lie ahead, with qualifiers, surprises and new stars to discover. But the map of the next great tournament is already drawn, and it promises a World Cup full of symbolism. Follow all the news and data of world football on our site.