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FIFA ponder 48-team World Cup
- Updated: November 23, 2016
FIFA president Gianni Infantino is considering backing a proposal to expand the World Cup to 48 teams.
Infantino, who was elected as Sepp Blatter’s successor in February, originally promised to expand the tournament to 40 teams during his campaign for the FIFA presidency.
However, that eight-team expansion would produce a complicated draw and some have now called for a mathematically simpler 48-team tournament.
In the new proposed 48-team format, 32 unseeded teams would be paired off to contest a single play-off match with the winners then advancing to face 16 seeded nations in the tournament proper.
However, this format has also been slated as 16 nations would be eliminated from the …
