Fifa World Cup 2026 will include 48 teams

[and1GS]

And the next two WCs are in Russia and Qatar.

lol.

[Hellcrooner]

The increased number of teams will surely be skewed to Europe, South America and maybe Africa, and deservedly so.

they should just merge oceania with asia and merge concacaaf and comenbol. and be done with it like this

1 for organizer ( regardless of confederation)
1 for previous champions ( regardless of confereration)
20 for europe
7 Asia+occeania
7 Africa
12 North+southamerica

[britblazerdude]

3 team groups are bizarre. 2 matches then you're off home? Utterly bizarre. 5 group teams makes more sense to me because you still have the problem of one team left out on the last day of matches - this can result in match fixing or playing to a certain result. At least with 5 group teams, small countries still enjoy their 4 matches in the spotlight. The 3 team thing will result in big teams getting knocked out after only 2 matches, which is again strange.

Also, the 32 team world cup set up just seemed so perfect. 8x4 teams, 2 go forward, no odd match days, etc. Crazy to ruin it.