ilikenewcastle Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 The 16 team Euros and 32 team world cups were perfect. Goodbye groups of death, hello Tahiti v Libya. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foluwashola Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Wait, CONCACAF are going to get more places than South America? Gets funnier by the minute. Odds that this decision isn't bent as owt are absolutely non-existent. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
henke Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 What was wrong with it the way it was? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdckelly Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 What was wrong with it the way it was? Politics basically. Asia/Africa wanted more places and to keep the current format you'd have to take them off Europe which would not have gone down well and that's Infantino's political home base. This way everyones happy as they all get more world cup money. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbnufc Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 How many places extra do each association (or whatever it is) get now? I can't find it anywhere Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdckelly Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 How many places extra do each association (or whatever it is) get now? I can't find it anywhere nowt confirmed but this is doing the rounds Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbnufc Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Cheers, so looking at the qualifying for Brazil 2014, the extra teams if this were the case would be: Iceland Ukraine Romania Uzbekistan Jordan Qatar Oman Iraq Senegal Tunisia Egypt Burkina Faso Panama Jamaica Guatemala New Zealand ehmm.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Using the current highest ranking teams as a qualifier the WC assuming no change aside from UEFA would be made up of: AFC: Iran, Korea, Japan, Saudi, Oz, Uzbekistan, UAE, China, CAF: Senegal, Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, Dr. Congo, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Ghana CONCACAF: Costa Rica, Mexico, US, Panama, Haiti, Honduras, Curaçao (better ranked .5 AFC team) CONMEBOL: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay, Peru OFC: NZ Curaçao and NZ being the lowest ranked. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEMTEX Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 If that is correct, the Concacaf increase is obscene and it's ridiculous that there'll still be any playoffs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steggy Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Cheers, so looking at the qualifying for Brazil 2014, the extra teams if this were the case would be: Iceland Ukraine Romania Uzbekistan Jordan Qatar Oman Iraq Senegal Tunisia Egypt Burkina Faso Panama Jamaica Guatemala New Zealand ehmm.. No more South Americans? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbnufc Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Dunno, they had 6 there including hosts Brazil An extra would have been Venezuela, though Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 South America is the most competitive one and gets no increase ffs Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 They get an increase from 4.5 to 6. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deuce Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 My big worry is that it now pushes the prospect of Canada getting the World Cup further away. Canada only have 3 stadiums that are suitable for a World Cup, well 4. Some of these are going to need renovating and extensions as well. I guess other countries will have a similar problem, but instead of having to gain half a dozen stadium they now probably need to add another 2-3 stadiums to that list. I think a Canada bid will now have to include baseball and CFL stadiums. Eh? If anything it increases their chances, albeit for a shared hosting. Considering there are only a handful of countries who could single-handedly host a 48-team World Cup, it's almost guaranteed that they're going to start shooting for regionally-held tournaments (Belgium-Netherlands, South Korea-Japan, Scandinavia, etc.) A North America-hosted tournament split between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada is sure to happen, it's already been on the table for years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Fox will ensure it at least part happens in 2026 unless China pays FIFA all the money. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlin Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Having 48 countries in the WC Finals is ridiculous - it dilutes the strength and appeal of the competition and Brian Glanville, formerly of the Times for many years, even thought it was crazy when it went to 32. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flip Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Using the current highest ranking teams as a qualifier the WC assuming no change aside from UEFA would be made up of: AFC: Iran, Korea, Japan, Saudi, Oz, Uzbekistan, UAE, China, CAF: Senegal, Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, Dr. Congo, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Ghana CONCACAF: Costa Rica, Mexico, US, Panama, Haiti, Honduras, Curaçao (better ranked .5 AFC team) CONMEBOL: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay, Peru OFC: NZ Curaçao and NZ being the lowest ranked. Curacao ffs. I do think 6 is a decent number for Conmebol. We want to at least keep the qualifiers somewhat competitive. There's basically only 8 teams there since Bolivia and Venezuela are horrendous. Maybe make it 7 to give one of them a slight chance of making it. That would also make it near impossible for Brazil to ever not qualify for a World Cup. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Having 48 countries in the WC Finals is ridiculous - it dilutes the strength and appeal of the competition and Brian Glanville, formerly of the Times for many years, even thought it was crazy when it went to 32. Clearly wrong on that front. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 If they want to expand the competition worldwide then reducing teams from Europe and North and South America would be the best way of doing it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFEE Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 If they want to expand the competition worldwide then reducing teams from Europe and North and South America would be the best way of doing it. Exactly. Make qualifying tougher for it rather than the procession it tends to be for Europe's elite. Not a chance anyone will have the balls to change it though. Too much self interest. Even the FA who didn't really believe in the expansion voted for it so not to be further ostracised. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdckelly Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 If they want to expand the competition worldwide then reducing teams from Europe and North and South America would be the best way of doing it. Exactly. Make qualifying tougher for it rather than the procession it tends to be for Europe's elite. Not a chance anyone will have the balls to change it though. Too much self interest. Even the FA who didn't really believe in the expansion voted for it so not to be further ostracised. that would involve risk lowering cash from france germanys etc tv markets if things go tits up for them in qualifying and FIFA can't have that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFEE Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Exactly. There is no sporting merit as had been pretended. All financial but I think we all know that anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 If they want to expand the competition worldwide then reducing teams from Europe and North and South America would be the best way of doing it. Exactly. Make qualifying tougher for it rather than the procession it tends to be for Europe's elite. Not a chance anyone will have the balls to change it though. Too much self interest. Even the FA who didn't really believe in the expansion voted for it so not to be further ostracised. that would involve risk lowering cash from france germanys etc tv markets if things go tits up for them in qualifying and FIFA can't have that. The money from those markets will dwarf from what they'll get in the far east soon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 We're going to the World Cup! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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