World Cup 2030: Morocco With New Stadium.
The stadium that Morocco will build for the 2030 football World Cup will have capacity for 115.000 spectators and will cost around 460 million euros (ME), according to the specifications of the architectural competition to which Mais Afrika had access.
The country will also renovate five other venues, in Rabat, Tangier, Agadir, Marrakesh and Fez, not only for the 2030 World Cup, but also with a view to organizing the African Cup of Nations (CAN).
The Grand Stadium, which will be built in the province of Benslimane, 30 kilometers from Casablanca, will become the largest stadium in North Africa and will serve to host large-scale sporting and cultural events.
“The Stadium will comply with the latest requirements of international football, namely the standards of FIFA by 2030″.
Morocco will also renovate five other venues, in Rabat, Tangier, Agadir, Marrakesh and Fez, not only for the 2030 World Cup, but also with a view to organizing the 2025 CAN, with the Grand Stadium only being built after this African competition.
The 2030 World Cup will be co-organized by Spain, Portugal and Morocco, with FIFA also promoting the holding of three matches of this competition in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, as a way of celebrating the centenary of the World Cup, whose first edition took place in 1930, on Uruguayan soil. .
The Benfica, FC Porto and Sporting stadiums will be the Portuguese venues for the 2030 World Cup, as they are the only venues that comply with FIFA's requirements to host World Cup matches.
According to the specifications for world championship organizations, candidate stadiums must have at least 80 seats to host finals and opening ceremonies, 60 for games from the quarter-finals onwards and the remaining seats at least 40 .
On the Spanish side, there are 15 stadiums that the federation has started to work with, with emphasis on Madrid, with the Santiago Bernabéu and the Metropolitano, and Barcelona, with the Camp Nou and the Stage Front Stadium, in addition to Valencia, Vigo, A Coruña, Gijon , Bilbao, San Sebastián, Zaragoza, Murcia, Seville, Málaga and Las Palmas.
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