FIFA's selection of Saudi Arabia to host the World Cup was celebrated in the kingdom but criticized by human rights groups, who fear residents, visitors and migrant workers will be at risk of abuse.

So what’s happened? Two weeks ago, late on a Friday evening, FIFA released its evaluations for both the 2030 and 2034 World Cup bids. It awarded Saudi Arabia’s bid a score of 4.2 (out of five ...

The FIFA World Cup 2034 in Saudi Arabia will see the first-ever 48-team tournament in a single host country. Matches will be held across 15 stadiums in five host cities: Riyadh, Jeddah, Khobar ...

A podcast special from The Athletic exploring Saudi Arabia's influence on two key tournaments in the U.S. this summer — on ...

FIFA’s decisions, of course, could have been made because the entire Council believes that the three-continent arrangement in 2030 and a Saudi World Cup in 2034 will be best for soccer.

FIFA's selection of Saudi Arabia to host the World Cup was celebrated in the kingdom but criticized by human rights groups, who fear residents, visitors and migrant workers will be at risk of abuse.

Saudi Arabia has been officially confirmed as the host of the 2034 FIFA World Cup despite fears over the country’s human rights record. World football’s governing body met on Wednesday to ...

"The 2034 FIFA World Cup - the first of the new century, so to say, of World Cups, will be a spectacular event," said the 54-year-old. "What Saudi Arabia has put forward in their bid is absolutely ...

Saudi Arabia is all but guaranteed to host the 2034 FIFA World Cup after Australia’s soccer federation announced it won't submit a competitive bid for the tournament, as the Middle Eastern ...

If Saudi Arabia could have designed a process for choosing future World Cup hosts, it might look similar to what FIFA has unveiled for the 2030 and 2034 men’s soccer tournaments.

In the end, not even Saudi Arabia or Gianni Infantino could engineer a way to get Cristiano Ronaldo to the Club World Cup ...