The stadiums in the running for the 2030 World Cup

Map of 16 locations in Spain, Portugal and Morocco

Six countries, three continents and a tournament that opens in Montevideo before moving to Iberia and North Africa: the 2030 venue list is unusual in that a good share of it does not yet exist. Some of these grounds have stood since the 1950s and need nothing; others are foundations with a completion date, and two more were only filed in March 2026 after Málaga and A Coruña walked away. Each entry sets out what is built, what is projected, and what the listing still depends on.

Places in this collection

  • Grand Stade de Tanger — Still widely called the Ibn Battouta, the Tangier ground is being expanded from roughly 65,000 to 75,600 to serve as the northern Morocco h…
  • Riyadh Air Metropolitano — Atlético Madrid's ground, built on the site of the old Estadio Olímpico de Madrid and rebranded in October 2024 under a deal with the Saudi…
  • Adrar Stadium — Agadir's ground is on the six-stadium Moroccan list and is being expanded to meet tournament requirements. It is the southernmost of the Mo…
  • Grand Stade de Marrakech — Morocco's tourist-facing venue, carried into 2030 by a renovation aimed at 45,860 seats rather than a rebuild. Group-stage fixtures are wha…
  • Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium — Rabat's capital-city venue was rebuilt rather than patched and reopened in 2025 at 68,700, the second-largest Moroccan capacity behind Casa…
  • Grand Stade Hassan II — Under construction at Benslimane outside Casablanca to a planned 115,000, which would make it the largest ground at the tournament and one…
  • Estádio do Dragão — FC Porto's 50,033-seat ground completes Portugal's entry and serves as the northern hub, with a mixed fixture allocation rather than a sing…
  • Estádio José Alvalade — Tomás Taveira designed Sporting CP's ground for Euro 2004 and it comes to 2030 unaltered, at 50,049 seats, with group-stage fixtures expect…
  • Estádio da Luz — Benfica's ground is the largest of Portugal's three venues at 64,642 and the only Portuguese stadium named among the contenders for the 203…
  • Abanca-Balaídos — The other late substitute, put forward alongside Nou Mestalla when the Spanish list dropped from eleven venues to nine. The ground belongs…
  • Nou Mestalla — Valencia's long-stalled replacement for Mestalla is still a building site, with completion given as 2027 or 2028. It was not on the origina…
  • La Romareda — Zaragoza is the Spanish host that is not renovating but replacing: the old Romareda comes down and a new build rises on the same ground, wi…
  • San Mamés — Athletic Club's ground enters the 2030 tournament at 53,289 seats with no expansion planned, one of the few Spanish candidates whose paperw…
  • RCDE Stadium — RCD Espanyol's 40,000-seat home in Cornellà de Llobregat is the one Spanish venue on the 2030 list that needs no work: current capacity and…
  • Spotify Camp Nou — The ground opened on 24 September 1957 and is logged in OpenStreetMap at 99,354 seats, a figure the Espai Barça reconstruction is meant to…
  • Santiago Bernabéu — Real Madrid's ground staged the 1982 World Cup final and returns to the 2030 list at a stated 78,297 capacity after its rebuild. FIFA has n…

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