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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
Let's look at this list, and I'll say what would be required to do to make a bid acceptable to FIFA.
Vancouver - BC Place - 55K - likely fine as is - by 2026, might be needing mid life cycle upgrades.
Edmonton - Commonwealth Stadium - 60K (expandable to 70K+) - may need some minor-mid level renos
Calgary - New Stampeders/MLS stadium - 40K (expandable to 45K) 60k -65k
Regina - New Roughriders Stadium - 33K (expandable to 40K) - might be acceptable, is it even possible?
Winnipeg - Investors Group Field - 33K (expandable to 40K) - might be acceptable
Toronto - Rogers Centre - 54K - New 80k+ stadium
BMO Field - 22K (expandable to 40K) - Probobly would need to be a permanent expansion
Ottawa - New Frank Claire Stadium - 30K (Expandable to 40K) - would require building the other side of the stands to match what they are building now. - plus temporary seats to bring capacity to 40k
Montreal - Olympic Stadium - 66K - New 75k to 80k stadium
Saputo Field - 22K (Expandable to 40K) To make this acceptable, would have to be a permanent expansion I think - plus convince FIFA to ignore it's no more than 1 two stadium cities
Hamilton - permanent addition to new Stadium to bring it to the 30-35k range, with temporary seating up to 40k)
Moncton (or somewhere else?) - new 30-35k Stadium with temporary seats to bring it up to 40k.
I think that it what it would take, at MINIMUM, to make a World Cup bid work.
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Agreed, and to land the World Cup you'd also have to beat out a bid from the US, who have aggresively pursued a second World Cup multiple times and have much more infrastructure, experience and a far more desirable market to offer. Unless Canada supplements a bid with a few suitcases full of cash it seems like a pipe dream.