FIFA is looking at a surprise proposal from South American soccer to expand the men's 2030 World Cup to 64 teams — double the size of the 2022 edition in Qatar.

“A proposal to analyze a 64-team FIFA World Cup to celebrate the centenary of the FIFA World Cup in 2030 was spontaneously raised by a FIFA Council member in the ‘miscellaneous’ agenda item near the end of the FIFA Council meeting held on March 5, 2025,” a FIFA spokesperson told Reuters.

FIFA is reportedly considering the idea of a one-off, 64-team World Cup in 2030 to commemorate the centenary of the tournament, which would mark the second consecutive expansion of the tournament. The idea was introduced towards the end of a recent FIFA meeting by Ignacio Alonso,