2030 — A New Beginning · Scenario A

EXPANSION — NOT REDISTRIBUTIONSouth America receives a meaningful place in the 2030 championship by adding teams, groups and matches. Spain, Portugal and Morocco retain the complete programme already assigned to them.

KEEP EVERY EXISTING MATCH

Scenario A enlarges the tournament itself. It does not finance South American participation by removing a group-stage or knockout match from the existing hosts.

48→64

REPRESENTATIVE TEAMS

12→16

GROUPS OF FOUR

104→128

TOTAL MATCHES

104PROTECTED OLD WORLD MATCHES

24ADDITIONAL SOUTH AMERICAN MATCHES

128ONE GLOBAL TOURNAMENT

DIRECT LEGAL REFERENCESSTA / ART-65.5–65.15 STA / ART-65.21–65.23 REG-12 / RULES 25–28 REG-12 / RULES 79–82

A REAL SOUTH AMERICAN HOST BLOCK

Five countries share a new 24-match programme. The tournament grows to 64 teams, with nine places assigned to CONMEBOL and sixteen teams competing in the four South American groups.

URUGUAYMontevideo

ARGENTINABuenos Aires

PARAGUAYAsunción

CHILESantiago

BRAZILRio de Janeiro

5HOST COUNTRIES

16TEAMS

4GROUPS

24NEW MATCHES

DIRECT LEGAL REFERENCESSTA / ART-65.12–65.16 STA / ART-65.24–65.25 REG-12 / RULES 44–52

WHY GROUPS A · E · I · M?

The four South American groups are deliberately spaced through the worldwide closing structure. This is calendar logic—not prestige—so one South American group closes on each principal closing day.

HOW DOES SOUTH AMERICA INTEGRATE INTO THE 2030 WORLD CUP?SOUTH AMERICA INTEGRATION · FULL PLAN

CLOSING DAY 1

ABCD

SOUTH AMERICA · A

CLOSING DAY 2

EFGH

SOUTH AMERICA · E

CLOSING DAY 3

IJKL

SOUTH AMERICA · I

CLOSING DAY 4

MNOP

SOUTH AMERICA · M

PITCH RECOVERYLESS VENUE CONGESTIONSIMULTANEOUS GROUP FINALSBALANCED FIVE-CITY ROTATION

DIRECT LEGAL REFERENCESSTA / ART-65.13 & 65.24–65.27 REG-12 / RULE-47 REG-12 / RULES 54–64

ONE COMPETITION REUNITES IN THE ROUND OF 32

The South American block is not a second championship. Eight qualifiers from Groups A, E, I and M join the 24 Old World group qualifiers; the unified knockout field then continues in Spain, Portugal and Morocco.

4 SOUTH AMERICAN GROUPS2 qualifiers from each group

8 + 24 QUALIFIERSEqual knockout status after qualification

ROUND OF 32All knockout matches in the Old World programme

DIRECT LEGAL REFERENCESSTA / ART-65.17–65.23 REG-12 / RULES 31–33 REG-12 / RULES 65–72

THE OLD WORLD BLOCK LOSES NOTHING

All 104 matches remain in the protected programme: 72 group-stage matches plus all 32 knockout matches. South American expansion is added around that structure, never extracted from it.

104OLD WORLD MATCHES PROTECTED72 group-stage matches + 32 knockout matches

64-TEAM CONFEDERATION ALLOCATION

UEFA20CAF13AFC12CONMEBOL9CONCACAF8OFC2TOTAL64

SPAINExisting host programme

PORTUGALExisting host programme

MOROCCOExisting host programme

DIRECT LEGAL REFERENCESSTA / ART-65.8–65.11 STA / ART-65.20–65.23 & 65.40 REG-12 / RULE-25A REG-12 / RULES 34–43 REG-12 / RULES 79–86

MONEY — WHO ORGANISES, WHO KEEPS WHAT?

The organiser finances the tournament, operates it and carries its operating risk. Only the final independently audited net profit is divided under the protected founding formula.

TOURNAMENT REVENUERevenue actually received

REASONABLE DIRECT OPERATING COSTSDocumented and attributable to the tournament

90%ORGANISER SHARE

10%WUFO FOUNDING SHARE

SEPARATE ACCOUNTS · INDEPENDENT AUDIT

NO AUDITED NET PROFIT · NO PAYMENT TO WUFO

WUFO DOES NOT SHARE THE ORGANISER’S OPERATING LOSS

DIRECT LEGAL REFERENCESSTA / ART-65.28–65.40 REG-12 / RULES 87–95 REG-12 / RULES 107–119