FIFA Council agrees four team 2026 group stage, boosting total World Cup matches to 104
By Samindra Kunti in Kigali, Rwanda
March 15 – The World Cup will never be quite the same again. FIFA and its council decided that the global finals must be seemingly endless, the 48-team finals have now grown into a group stage of four teams and a tournament of 104 matches, eight to reach the final. In all the competition will last six, or seven days longer.
FIFA and its president have been very bullish about the prospects of staging the World Cup in North America,
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