Fifa World Cup

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The race to host the 2030 World Cup is heating up, with a joint bid between Spain, Portugal and Morocco in the pipeline
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Uruguay’s National Sports Secretary Fernando Cáceres has said the Argentinian government has reconfirmed its commitment to a joint Argentina-Uruguay-Paraguay bid for the 2030 Fifa World Cup.
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Following Fifa's award of the 2026 World Cup to three North American nations, joint bids are becoming more common for the showpiece event
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Fifa president Gianni Infantino has left the door open to the 2022 World Cup going ahead as a 48-team competition
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The organisers of the 2018 Fifa World Cup have claimed that the tournament added more than $14bn (€12.2bn) to the Russian economy.
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The UK government has said it would offer its full support to a joint bid from the UK and Ireland to host the 2030 World Cup
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Licensing & Merchandising

The victory of the French men’s national team in the Fifa World Cup has triggered performance bonuses in three of its sponsorship deals and opened up new product licensing and regional sponsorship opportunities. Ben Cronin speaks to FFF marketing director François Vasseur about the commercial impact of the win.
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The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) is reportedly open to talks with the FAs of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales over joining the home nations’ bid for the 2030 Fifa World Cup.
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Fresh from the country’s failed attempt to host the 2026 Fifa World Cup, Morocco is plotting to join forces with Spain and Portugal to launch a bid for the 2030 edition, according to Moroccan news outlet A…
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Tim Crow reflects on the use of VAR in Russia 2018 and why sponsors will be considering it in future tournaments.
Sports Betting

World football’s governing body Fifa has said the 2018 World Cup generated estimated global betting turnover of €136bn ($159.7bn) and was free from any evidence of match manipulation behaviour.
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The English Football Association (FA) has said it will commence work on formulating a potential bid for the 2030 Fifa World Cup and has dismissed claims it could target Qatar’s under-fire 2022 tournament.
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Qatar's Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy has rubbished fresh allegations reported in the Sunday Times newspaper that the team that led the country’s successful bid for the 2022 Fifa World Cup…
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Time was the greatest enemy in Fifa’s attempt to sell the full offering of sponsorship rights for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Philippe Le Floc’h, Fifa’s chief commercial officer has told Sports Sponso…
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Football isn’t coming home. Not this time anyway.
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Vladimir Putin has said that stadia used to stage the recent Fifa World Cup should continue as football venues in the future, while the Russian President has also revealed that the country is considering…
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Fifa president Gianni Infantino has hailed the 2018 World Cup as the best-ever edition of the national team tournament and said the introduction of video assistant referees (VARs) has acted to “clean” foo…
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The Egyptian government has announced that the country will bid to host the 2030 Fifa World Cup and the 2032 summer Olympic Games