Quote Originally Posted by surge View Post
It's going to be an expensive trip (massively, massively expensive for fans who want to do more than one game) but enlarging the tournament means fewer countries can host as individuals and more group efforts will be made. Do three teams now qualify as hosts? That seems wrong.
For CONCACAF, they just get less qualifying spots (so it doesn't impact any of the other federations). There are so many spots now I don't think it's a huge deal.

The qualifying spots are said to look like:
AFC (Asia) – eight places (up from 4.5)
Caf (Africa) – nine places (up from 5)
Concacaf (North and Central America) – six places, of which three go to hosts (up from 3.5)
Conmebol (South America) – six places (up from 4.5)
OFC (Oceania) – one place (up from 0.5)
Uefa (Europe) – 16 places (up from 13)

In addition there will be two final spots available from a new World Cup play-off mini-tournament.

https://www.theguardian.com/football...ll-work-united

Whats crazy is that with 48 teams we are looking at groups of 3 teams, with the top 2 advancing to the knockout stages. As the article states, that could lead to all kinds of scenarios as the schedule won't be balanced in the group (one team would be coming off playing a match playing a team that hasn't played yet). I do think more of a knockout stage is a good thing though.