"The people that will go to Morocco will be welcomed like nowhere else. It will be a huge celebration of humanity, of football, of togetherness,” Infantino underlined in an interview published by FIFA following its extraordinary congress, which formally confirmed the hosts for the 2030 and 2034 tournaments.

Infantino recalled that Morocco’s fans had made a huge impression at the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 when their team became the first from Africa to reach the semi-finals. “Everyone knows the fans of Morocco. They are absolutely unique and fantastic,” he said.

With the 2026 FIFA World Cup to be staged in Canada, Mexico and the United States, five confederations – and ten FIFA Member Associations – will have a chance to host the tournament between 2026 and 2034.

"We go from North America in 2026 to South America in 2030, then to Africa and Europe, still in 2030, and then to Asia in 2034,” continued the FIFA President. This is “a great message of unity, a message of strength, a message of the solidity of FIFA, of the football community; this is history at its best and the history books will definitely have a few pages of this beautiful chapter for FIFA, for football, for unity and for humanity”, he underlined.

Morocco, Portugal and Spain were officially been appointed as host countries for the 2030 FIFA World Cup by the FIFA Congress, gathered Wednesday in an extraordinary session by videoconference.

During the same session, chaired by FIFA president Gianni Infantino from Zurich, Congress members also approved awarding the three centenary matches to Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay, while Saudi Arabia was confirmed as the host country for the 2034 World Cup.