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    New Zealand Football understands FIFA's resistance to expanding the World Cup

    New Zealand Football understands FIFA's resistance to expanding the World Cup


    The sport's governing body has abandoned plans to make the Qatar event a 48-team tournament, and will run the standard 32-team competition.

    It means Oceania won't be guaranteed a spot for 2022 and will have to win a continental play-off.

    NZF interim-technical director Andy Boyens says they always had hope, but aren't super surprised by the outcome.

    He says it's a difficult thing for a country preparing for a World Cup to increase capacity by that much and it hasn't happened so they now have to plan accordingly.

    © 2024 Newstalk ZB, NZCity

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