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

Gazolba · Oct 3, 2016

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

Terry Gibson's perm · Oct 3, 2016

Greed, it works now why change it

chiefdave · Oct 3, 2016

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 · Oct 3, 2016

Bad idea

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Terry Gibson's perm · Oct 3, 2016

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

CJ_covblaze · Oct 3, 2016

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 · Oct 3, 2016

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 · Oct 3, 2016

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 · Oct 4, 2016

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 · Oct 4, 2016

Scotland still wouldn't qualify

covcity4life · Oct 4, 2016

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

I_Saw_Shaw_Score · Oct 4, 2016

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 · Oct 4, 2016

The sticker ablbum will be murder

CJ_covblaze · Oct 5, 2016

covcity4life said:
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 · Oct 5, 2016

Or Iceland ...... ;-)

covcity4life · Oct 5, 2016

CJ_covblaze said:
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 · Oct 5, 2016

covcity4life said:
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 · Oct 6, 2016

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

CJ_covblaze · Oct 6, 2016

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

RegTheDonk · Oct 6, 2016

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 · Oct 6, 2016

RegTheDonk said:
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 · Oct 6, 2016

RegTheDonk said:
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 · Oct 12, 2016

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

skybluesam66 · Oct 12, 2016

CJ_covblaze said:
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 · Oct 12, 2016

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

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