{"id":12186,"date":"2023-03-14T21:13:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T15:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=288826"},"modified":"2023-03-14T21:13:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T15:43:41","slug":"104-matches-to-be-played-at-the-fifa-world-cup-from-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/104-matches-to-be-played-at-the-fifa-world-cup-from-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"104 matches to be played at the FIFA World Cup from 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In 2026, the World Cup will be larger and longer than ever due to an expansion of the field, and FIFA leaders are talking about adding 24 more games to the format.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In the new format, 48 teams will play 104 games over as many as 40 days in three countries, and the champion and runner-up will each play eight rounds instead of seven currently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">After Tuesday\u2019s meeting of FIFA\u2019s governing council, football\u2019s global governing body and the World Cup\u2019s organizer, the format is expected to be approved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The 104 World Cup matches would significantly increase from previous plans that had called for 80 games and 40 more than last year\u2019s tournament in Qatar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Adding matches helps FIFA chase its revenue target of more than <\/span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a39bn<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. Still, it also solves format issues for the event co-hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In preparation for the 2026 World Cup in North America, FIFA is expected to approve the expansion of the men\u2019s World Cup by 40 matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":34595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2663,2182,2609],"class_list":["post-12186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-argentina-fc","tag-fifa-2026","tag-gianni-infantino"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}