FIFA Pondering Over Plans To Stage World Cup Every Two Years

By Max Wise 

President of the South American Football Federation, Conmebol, Alejandro Dominguez, says FIFA is considering a proposal to change the World Cup calendar from every four years to two years.

Dominguez said on Friday the proposal, which was submitted at the world football governing body’s congress in Kigali, Rwanda, in October, detailed the necessities of staging the World Cup every two years rather than the current four-year interval.

One of them, he said, was that a biennial World Cup would serve a better purpose to the expanded continental championships like UEFA’s Nations League and the Copa America.

Dominguez, who made the disclosure ahead of Saturday’s Copa Libertadores final between Argentina’s sworn club football rivals, River Plate and Boca Juniors, said: “I never say no; I always say, why not?”

“We always wanted to have a global Nations League, and we always will support an idea like that, or a proposal as we have made to FIFA, which is to do the World Cup every two years and not every four.”

“Instead of having a Nations League in between, we can just go ahead and do a World Cup every two years.”

“If we stay with this format, many players could not play more than two,” Dominguez said. “So we see an opportunity there. There is a proposal put forward to FIFA to take it over, and say whether it is a global Nations League or whether there is an opportunity to play the World Cup every two years.”