48 team World Cup. Good or Bad? (1 Viewer)

[Gazolba]

The new FIFA president wants to expand the World Cup to 48 teams.
Why are all FIFA presidents idiots?
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/37547545

 

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[Terry Gibson's perm]

Greed, it works now why change it

 

[chiefdave]

Bad idea. The Euros suffered from expansion. You'd just make the group stages way longer and meaningless and people wouldn't pay any attention until the knockouts.

 

[stupot07]

Bad idea

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[Terry Gibson's perm]

As it's such a bad idea they will bring it in as they are clueless at FIFA

 

[CJ_covblaze]

It's a terrible idea. Why bother with qualification. Might as well allow all 200 plus teams in and have a massive league for a decade or so. We've already got a guarantee that someone from the Luxembourg, San Marino and Andorra level of teams will qualify for the next Euros. Now that's an even worse idea!

 

[rob9872]

Only plus I can see is it gives you a chance to grow into a tournament if they go 8×6 and you guarantee 5 games. If it's 12×4 then a bad move imo

 

[covcity4life]

World cup is perfect at 32

I wouldn't mind a 32 team euros tbf. Good for development of smaller nations

But anything over 32 is too much probably. 3 games a day perfect number

 

[Covstu]

yep agree its way too much. At the moment the best teams are not getting through due to the continent splits but I don't mind that but lets face it, it would be like qualifying all over again. If its not broke and all that.....

 

[Monners]

Scotland still wouldn't qualify

 

[covcity4life]

16 knockout games prelim isnt the worst way to implement it i guess.

 

[I_Saw_Shaw_Score]

But what about the poor players & their burn out (& the fact the burnout players won't be able to spend 2 weeks after doing a round the world tour with their club sides.......)

 

[ccfctommy]

The sticker ablbum will be murder

 

[CJ_covblaze]

World cup is perfect at 32

I wouldn't mind a 32 team euros tbf. Good for development of smaller nations

But anything over 32 is too much probably. 3 games a day perfect number

Might sound odd but 32 teams is much better than 24 for fans. Much easier to plan. 24 means 4 possible routes from the group stage to the final. 32 would mean there are only 2 routes.

Main issue is the quality on display. There are at least 10 teams (Andorra, San Marino, Scotland, Luxembourg, etc) of the 54 that would never make it to a tournament without UEFA's qualifying method for 2020. As i said above one of these is guaranteed to. Not many more are left after those. We're talking the likes of Estonia, Lithuania, Belarus and Cyprus. Not awful-lose-5-nil-every-game type teams but they'd have a 1 in 2 chance of qualification.

 

[rob9872]

Or Iceland ...... ;-)

 

[covcity4life]

Might sound odd but 32 teams is much better than 24 for fans. Much easier to plan. 24 means 4 possible routes from the group stage to the final. 32 would mean there are only 2 routes.

Main issue is the quality on display. There are at least 10 teams (Andorra, San Marino, Scotland, Luxembourg, etc) of the 54 that would never make it to a tournament without UEFA's qualifying method for 2020. As i said above one of these is guaranteed to. Not many more are left after those. We're talking the likes of Estonia, Lithuania, Belarus and Cyprus. Not awful-lose-5-nil-every-game type teams but they'd have a 1 in 2 chance of qualification.

san marino would still not qualify

if euros eextended to 32 the teams you would see on top of this years would be likes of scotland,denmark,norway etc

as this years shown, smaller nations can be a positive and do well in the tournament.

 

[CJ_covblaze]

san marino would still not qualify

if euros eextended to 32 the teams you would see on top of this years would be likes of scotland,denmark,norway etc

as this years shown, smaller nations can be a positive and do well in the tournament.

Possibly not but one from the San Marino/Luxembourg level will. If you don't qualify automatically you go into a group with all the teams from the other groups that finished in the same place as you. They all play each other and the winner goes through. E.G. the 6th place teams (out of 6) all play each other in a second qualifying phase. The winner of that goes through to the finals. Or to put it simply there's an advantage to finish bottom of your group over say 3rd as you will play easier teams in the 2 phase.

To make it worse due to this extended qualifying phase the finals line up will finally be confirmed a couple of months before the start of the tournament.

I really hope they realise how stupid this is and change it back to the old method. Not holding my breath though.

 

[covcity4life]

not read anything on the above before. where did you get that qualifying proccess from?

 

[CJ_covblaze]

It's in an article I read some time ago. Could've been an FA or Uefa email.

 

[RegTheDonk]

Agree that the pre-tournament round seems a bit daft.

If they want 48 teams, why not just do that and have 8 groups of 6 rather than 4? Top two go onto knockout as normal.

You get to see your team play at least 5 times, more money for FIFA, more fans able to see their team at the finals...maybe Scotland WOULD make it

 

[CJ_covblaze]

Agree that the pre-tournament round seems a bit daft.

If they want 48 teams, why not just do that and have 8 groups of 6 rather than 4? Top two go onto knockout as normal.

You get to see your team play at least 5 times, more money for FIFA, more fans able to see their team at the finals...maybe Scotland WOULD make it

This would be the better way of doing it if they are going to go bigger. I would've rather had 4 groups of 6 with 2 going through from each in the summer and allow slightly bigger squads. At least we would've gone out in the Quarters rather than the R16

 

[Gazolba]

Agree that the pre-tournament round seems a bit daft.

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Agree. Why would anyone travel half-way around the world to watch one game, get knocked out and then go home?

 

[ccfcway]

Why don't they trial including some of the larger nations under 21's.

 

[skybluesam66]

It's in an article I read some time ago. Could've been an FA or Uefa email.

so I googled it, and you almost made it understandable - I am not sure how, from this mess
WTF are they doing with this??

http://www.uefa.com/community/news/newsid=2079553.html

 

[CJ_covblaze]

That's it. It's altered slightly from what I can tell compared to the original idea. Complicated still!