{"id":17788,"date":"2026-11-14T17:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/2030-world-cup-final-will-be-in-spain-federation-boss-insists\/"},"modified":"2026-11-14T17:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T17:16:08","slug":"2030-world-cup-final-will-be-in-spain-federation-boss-insists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/2030-world-cup-final-will-be-in-spain-federation-boss-insists\/","title":{"rendered":"2030 World Cup final will be in Spain, federation boss insists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"64.582974137931\">\n<p>The 2030 World Cup final will be in Spain, Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) head Rafael Louzan reiterated on Saturday, adding that he is not considering \u201cwithdrawing\u201d should he be wrong.\n<\/p>\n<p>Spain is organising the next World Cup with Portugal and Morocco. The decision on the venue for the final will be made in 2028, Louzan said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Spain favours Real Madrid\u2019s Santiago Bernabeu Stadium for the final. Portugal does not have a suitable stadium but Morocco has suggested the 115,000-capacity Hassan II Stadium being built in Benslimane near Casablanca.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no other plan than for the final to be held in Spain,\u201d said Louzan at a conference at the RFEF\u2019s Ciudad del Futbol on the outskirts of Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not currently considering the possibility of withdrawing from Spain, as the prospect of Spain not hosting the final is not on the table,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Louzan was responding to Alberto Nunez Feijoo, the leader of the right-wing People\u2019s Party. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a television interview on November 5, Feijoo said that were he to become prime minister in the general election on November 29, he would advocate withdrawing Spain\u2019s bid to host the World Cup should Morocco be awarded the final.<\/p>\n<p>Luzon said the question was entirely hypothetical.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat notion simply doesn\u2019t exist,\u201d he said, adding that under FIFA\u2019s tradition of rotating the World Cup the staging of the final \u201cbelongs to the European continent\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>A delegation of FIFA technical experts spent last week visiting Spanish stadiums that are hoping to host matches during the tournament, Louzan said.\n<\/p>\n<p>AFP\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#d7a3bfb2b2b3bea3b8a597a7a2b9b4bfb9b0f9b4b8ba\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"e3978b8686878a978c91a393968d808b8d84cd808c8e\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2030 World Cup final will be in Spain, Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) head Rafael Louzan reiterated on Saturday, adding that he is not considering \u201cwithdrawing\u201d should he be wrong.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}