KUALA LUMPUR: Qatar stressed that the 2022 World Cup remains at 32 teams as FIFA chief Gianni Infantino piled on pressure to expand the tournament to 48 and share it with other Gulf countries.
Although Qatar has said it is open to expanding, Khater was at pains to underline that"the status quo is that it's still a 32-team World Cup, everything after that is an assessment". "Under the current environment I don't think it's a possibility," he said, adding that studies were underway about the feasibility of Oman and Kuwait hosting games.
The Swiss-Italian FIFA president, who may put the matter to the world body's congress in June, said 90 percent of football associations support the move.
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