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After Madrid, Barcelona has now joined the race to host the 2030 World Cup final. Buoyed by the selection of the Spotify Camp Nou to stage the 2029 Champions League final, Barça and the Catalan authorities are openly staking their claim, with Casablanca’s Grand Stade Hassan II among their main rivals.

Behind the battle to host the 2030 World Cup final, Morocco is not only defending its Grand Stade Hassan II against the Santiago Bernabéu and Camp Nou. It is also carrying an African ambition: to bring the biggest match in world football back to the continent, 20 years after the only final in its history, held in Johannesburg. Against a Europe that has hosted so many more, the stakes go far beyond the Kingdom’s borders.

As Casablanca emerges as a credible candidate to host the 2030 World Cup final, Morocco has become Spain’s convenient common opponent. The perceived external threat has helped shift attention away from a far more difficult question: the competition between Madrid and Barcelona to host the tournament’s most coveted match.