The Spotify Camp Nou aspires to host the 2030 World Cup final

FIFA has made public the evaluation report of the joint candidacy of Spain, Morocco and Portugal for the 2030 World Cup. The candidacy has obtained an average score of 4.2 out of 5 and will be designated as the venue at a congress of the highest regulator of the world football on December 11.

This document evaluates different aspects such as the stadiums that could host World Cup matches, the facilities for the teams that play it, hotels, transportation, venues for fans and the media, the climate or legal and commercial aspects. . One of the most striking aspects is that there are three venues competing for the opening match and the final: the Spotify Camp Nou, the Santiago Bernabéu and the Hassan II Grand Stadium in Casablanca (still to be built and which could have a capacity for 115,000 spectators). .

To host a World Cup, it is necessary to propose a minimum of 14 venues. The candidacy reaches 20: eleven in Spain, six in Morocco and three in Portugal. The list is made up of the Spotify Camp Nou, the Santiago Bernabéu, the Riyadh Air Metropolitano, La Cartuja, the RCDE Stadium, San Mamés, the Gran Canaria Stadium, La Rosaleda, Anoeta, Riazor, La Romareda, the Gran Estadio Hassan II, Prince Moulay Stadium

Abdellah (Rabat), the Grand Stadium of Tangier, the Grand Stadium of Agadir, the Stadium of Fez, the Grand Stadium of Marrakech, the Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica, the Estádio do Dragão and the Estádio José Alvalade. In the Spanish case, the reform of Riazor, the Gran Canaria Stadium, the Rosaleda, the Romareda and the Cartuja is proposed.

On the Blaugrana field, FIFA accepts it as a possible venue for the opening match or the final because it meets different requirements. One of them has to do with capacity: to host these meetings, there must be more than 80,000 seats. The forecast is that Spotify Camp Nou will exceed 103,000. The highest regulator of international football highlights that the remodeling will turn it into an “avant-garde venue, with new preferential and VIP facilities, a retractable cover and a state-of-the-art 360-degree video scoreboard.”