Spain will host the final of the 2030 FIFA World Cup, Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) president Rafael Louzán has reiterated.
Spain is co-hosting the tournament with Portugal and Morocco, but FIFA is expected to decide on the venue for the final by 2028.
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“There is no other plan than for the final to be held in Spain,” Louzán said on Saturday at a conference held at the RFEF’s Ciudad del Fútbol headquarters on the outskirts of Madrid.
“I am not currently considering the possibility of withdrawing from Spain, as the prospect of Spain not hosting the final is not on the table,” he added.
Louzán was responding to comments by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, leader of Spain’s opposition party, who said in a television interview on November 5 that he would advocate withdrawing Spain’s bid to host the tournament if Morocco were awarded the final.
Feijóo made the comments ahead of Spain’s general election scheduled for November 29, saying he would push for the withdrawal if he became prime minister.
However, Louzán described the scenario as hypothetical and insisted that Spain remained confident of hosting the final.
“That notion simply doesn’t exist,” he said, adding that, under FIFA’s tradition of rotating World Cup hosting regions, the final “belongs to the European continent”.
FIFA experts inspect Spanish stadiums
Louzán also disclosed that a delegation of FIFA technical experts spent the previous week inspecting Spanish stadiums seeking to host matches at the 2030 World Cup.
The visits form part of the preparations for the tournament, which will be jointly staged by Spain, Portugal and Morocco.
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