Uefa president backs joint home nations bid for 2030 World Cup

• ‘It’s about time it returned to England’ – Aleksander Ceferin
• Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina bid will be hard to beat

A joint home nations bid for the 2030 World Cup has been given full backing by Uefa’s president, Aleksander Ceferin, who said it was “about time” the tournament returned to England for the first time since 1966.

The Football Association is understood to have promised its Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland counterparts that it will consult with them before making any bid. The FA chairman, Greg Clarke, has been touring some of the voting nations and a year-long feasibility study has begun with no decision to be made until after that. But such a full and public endorsement of a possible bid by Ceferin, the most powerful man in international football in Europe, will be a huge boost.

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