The World Cup again in Korea? Co-hosting East Asian World Cup...Japanese media EAFF+AFF agrees with Korea, and candidates for venues such as Korea

Jul 18, 2025

The World Cup again in Korea? Co-hosting East Asian World Cup...Japanese media EAFFAFF agrees with Korea, and candidates for venues such as Korea
The street cheering scene during the 2002 World Cup. Yonhap News



The World Cup again in Korea? Co-hosting East Asian World Cup...Japanese media EAFFAFF agrees with Korea, and candidates for venues such as Korea
Park Ji-sung (right) is fighting for an aerial ball in the semifinals against Spain during the 2002 World Cup. Yonhap News
The 2046 Football World Cup is expected to be promoted as a co-host in Asia, including South Korea and Japan.

Japanese media 'Sponichi Annex' reported on the 18th that the 'Japan Football Association (JFA), East Asian Federation (EAFF), and ASEAN Federation (AFF) plan to jointly host the 2046 World Cup was revealed.

The media added that the candidate countries will be recruited in the future, but Japan, Korea, China, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia will be the focus.




As a result, the possibility of hosting the World Cup in Korea for the first time in 44 years since the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup is emerging.

According to the 'Sponichi Annex', it was the joint meeting between EAFF and AFF held in Tokyo, Japan in March that embodied the Asian co-hosting plan.

JFA President Tsuneyasu Miyamoto told `Sponichi Annex'We didn't exchange documents officially, but we wish we could be together' is right to have a conversation,' he admitted.




The World Cup again in Korea? Co-hosting East Asian World Cup...Japanese media EAFFAFF agrees with Korea, and candidates for venues such as Korea
10th anniversary of the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup. Sports Chosun DB
The World Cup again in Korea? Co-hosting East Asian World Cup...Japanese media EAFFAFF agrees with Korea, and candidates for venues such as Korea
Brazil won the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup. Sports Chosun DB
The co-hosting of the Soccer World Cup in Asia has emerged as an alternative because the trend of expanding the size of the tournament, such as the increase in the number of participating teams, has emerged as an obstacle to holding it alone.

Next year's North Korea-China World Cup will also be held in the United States, Mexico and Canada as the number of participants in the finals increases from 32 to 48, and the 2030 World Cup will be co-hosted by Spain, Portugal and Morocco.

The 2034 World Cup will be held in Saudi Arabia, and according to the principle of continental circulation, the opportunity to host the World Cup will return to Asia in 2046..




As a result, the plan to co-host the World Cup in 2046 has emerged as the interests of East Asia, which aims to host the World Cup after 2002, Indonesia, and Australia, which tried to jump into the bid to host the 2034 World Cup, match.

In its long-term plan declaration in 2005, the JFA declared that it aims to hold the World Cup in Japan by 2050 and win Japan.

In the end, public opinion on participating in the co-hosting is expected to increase even in Korea, which has experience in the 2002 World Cup and has abundant infrastructure.



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.