The "reckless decision" to award the 2034 men's football World Cup to Saudi Arabia will "put many lives at risk", Amnesty International has warned.Human rights groups believe Fifa, world football's governing body,

With Qatar having already hosted in 2022, Asia’s turn would have come at 2042 to host another World Cup under the terms of confederation rotation. However, the FIFA move to stage the 2030 edition across three confederations (UEFA, CAF and CONMEBOL) pushed Oceania and Asia to the front of the queue for 2034.

FIFA named the hosts for the 2030 and 2034 World Cups on Wednesday with Spain, Portugal and Morocco getting the former edition and Saudi Arabia controversially landing the latter. There is minimal surprise at the outcome given that the two decisions have been considered a foregone conclusion since there was only one single candidate for each event.