World Cup 2030 Stadiums: What Morocco Is Building, and What Is Not Settled

Morocco has six confirmed host cities for the 2030 World Cup: Casablanca, Rabat, Marrakech, Tangier, Agadir and Fes. Behind that tidy list are three very different kinds of project. One stadium is being built from nothing. One is already finished and has hosted a major tournament. Four are existing grounds being renovated and expanded, each on its own schedule.

That distinction matters more than the capacity figures, because it tells you which claims are settled and which are forecasts. This page is about construction status. For match logistics, transit and accommodation, see the World Cup 2030 visitor’s guide.

Where the six venues stand

The one being built from nothing

The Grand Stade Hassan II is the only Moroccan venue for this tournament that is genuinely new construction rather than a renovation. It is planned at around 115,000 seats, which on completion would make it the largest stadium in Africa. It was designed by Populous, in collaboration with the Paris-based practice Oualalou + Choi, whose entry won the design competition in March 2024.

It is not in Casablanca. The site is at El Mansouria, in Benslimane Province, roughly 40 kilometres north of the city, which is a detail with real consequences for anyone booking a Casablanca hotel and assuming they can walk or take a short taxi to a match.

As of the middle of 2026 the project was still at the earthworks and foundation stage, with completion targeted for 2028. That is a target with roughly two years of heavy construction behind it, on a site that has to deliver the largest stadium on the continent. It is progressing, and it is not finished.

The one already finished

Rabat’s Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium is the outlier: it is done. It was delivered in roughly two years and has already hosted the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, which is the most useful signal available about any of these venues, because a stadium that has run a continental tournament has been tested with real crowds rather than on paper.

If you want a sense of what a Moroccan World Cup venue will feel like, Rabat is currently the only one you can actually look at in finished form.

The four renovations

Marrakech, Tangier, Agadir and Fes are all working with stadiums that already exist. Each is being renovated and expanded, each project is confirmed and underway, and each runs to its own timeline rather than a single shared deadline.

Those completion dates should be read as targets rather than guarantees. That is not scepticism about whether the work is happening — it is confirmed and it is in progress — but 2030 is still years away, and multi-year construction programmes of this size routinely move. A date published in 2026 for delivery in 2028 or 2029 is a plan, and plans on this scale get revised.

The practical consequence is immediate rather than distant in one case: the Marrakech ground is closed for its renovation now, which affects anyone hoping to see a match there well before the tournament.

The final has not been awarded

It would be easy to assume that the largest stadium in Africa, purpose-built for this tournament, will host the final. That is not decided, and it should not be assumed.

FIFA has not selected a venue for the 2030 final. Madrid’s Santiago Bernabéu is a genuine competing contender, and multiple sources describe active contention between the candidates. Both are serious possibilities and neither has been chosen.

This is worth being precise about because the assumption travels quickly and gets repeated as though it were settled. Until FIFA announces a decision, the honest position is that the venue for the final is an open question — not a likely outcome in either direction.

September 2026 status note. Everything on this page describes projects still in progress and a decision still to be made. Stadium completion timelines and the venue for the final are the two things most likely to have changed since this was written, and both should be reconfirmed periodically rather than treated as settled. This page was last reviewed in September 2026.

What this means if you are planning

Do not build a non-refundable plan around a specific stadium yet. Fixtures have not been published, venue readiness is still moving, and the one decision that would anchor a trip — where the final is played — has not been made.

What you can reasonably do now is understand the shape of it: Rabat is ready, Casablanca’s venue is the big unknown on the schedule, and four more grounds are being enlarged around the country. For how the host cities actually connect, and why the rail corridor governs any multi-match itinerary, the visitor’s guide and the ONCF train guide cover the movement problem in full.