FIFA considers 48-team World Cup

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FIFA is considering expanding the World Cup to 48 teams and will make a decision by 2017, president Gianni Infantino has confirmed.

However, he suggested that 16 of those teams would go home after just one knockout match, and the remainder of the tournament would be played, as now, with a 32-team group stage, followed by a knockout phase.

Infantino, speaking during an event at Bogota’s Sergio Arboleda university, said a final decision would be …

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