💥Riazor misses out, La Coruña pulls out of the 2030 World Cup | OneFootball

The city of A Coruña has put an end to its World Cup dream. This Monday, Mayor Inés Rey and Deportivo president Juan Carlos Escotet will officially announce the city's withdrawal from being a host for the 2030 World Cup. The decision comes just two days before a key FIFA visit, making A Coruña the second Spanish host city to withdraw after Málaga. In this way, the city now with the best chances is Vigo.

Insurmountable Obstacles: Financing and Logistics

Despite having passed the initial cut in 2024, the Riazor renovation project—budgeted at over 100 million euros—became unfeasible. The difficulties in securing funding, combined with critical mobility and safety issues, forced the City Council to give up. Recent warnings from RFEF president Rafael Louzán about the “unfinished homework” turned out to be the prelude to a definitive farewell.

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A Shrinking Map of Host Cities

With this withdrawal, the number of stadiums for the event uniting Spain, Portugal, and Morocco continues to decrease, in line with FIFA’s preference to centralize the tournament. Cities like Valencia now gain ground to fill the vacancy, while A Coruña bids farewell to the chance to repeat its experience as a host city in 1982.

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