Destination Asean The Sunday Times explores if Asean has the capacity and capability to host a World Cup in 2034 CAPACITY-ELIGIBLE STADIUMS AT A GLANCE For the 48-team 2026 World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico, 16 venues will be selected and the same is expected in 2034. The minimum seating capacities for the various stages are as follows: 80,000 60,000 40,000 Opening match Semi-nals Remaining group stage (excluding opener), and nal round of 32, round of 16, quarter-nals and third-place play-off matches NOTE: The stadiums marked out in the map here meet the minimum seating capacity. However, the total number of each seating-capacity type required for the various stages is not stipulated. Thailand’s Rajamangala National Stadium My Dinh National Stadium (40,192), Hanoi MYANMAR THAILAND VIETNAM Bogyoke Aung San Rajamangala Stadium National Stadium Morodok Techno (40,000), (49,722), Bangkok National Stadium Yangon (60,000), Phnom Penh CAMBODIA (expected to be completed in 2022) Phnom Penh Penang Olympic Stadium State Stadium (50,000), Phnom Penh (40,000), Batu Kawan Can Tho Stadium (44,400), Can Tho Perak Stadium South Harapan Bangsa (42,500), Ipoh China Stadium Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium Sea (45,000), Banda Aceh (50,000), Kuala Terengganu Shah Alam Stadium Darul Makmur Stadium (80,372), Shah Alam (41,873), Kuantan Bukit Jalil MALAYSIA National Stadium Sarawak Stadium (87,411), Kuala Lumpur (40,000), Kuching Hang Jebat SINGAPORE Palaran Stadium Stadium (67,075), Samarinda (40,000), Malacca National Stadium (55,000) Riau Main Stadium Batakan Stadium (43,923), Pekanbaru (46,000), INDONESIA Balikpapan Sultan Ibrahim Larkin Stadium (40,000), Johor Jakarta International Stadium (expected to be completed this year) (82,000) (expected to be completed in 2021) Gelora Bung Karno Stadium (77,193), Jakarta Gelora Bung Tomo Stadium (55,000), Surabaya Indonesia’s Gelora Bung Karno Stadium PASSENGERS HANDLED IN KEY ASEAN CITIES HOTEL ROOMS IN KEY ASEAN CITIES Moscow's Sheremetyevo (45 million), Domodedovo (45 million) Fifa required 1,760 to 8,080 hotel rooms in and Vnukovo (21.4 million) international airports handled each of the 11 Russian host cities to cater to more than 100 million passengers in 2018 when Russia one million visitors for last year’s World Cup. hosted the World Cup. No. of passengers No. of Bangkok 143,430* (million) flights Kuala Lumpur 43.5 274,957 Singapore 67,084** International Airport Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta 19.6 137,101 Kuala Lumpur 58,963* International Airport Bangkok 51.5 281,879 Jakarta 48,104** Suvarnabhumi Airport Singapore 62.2 384,040 Changi Airport NOTE: *2016 gures; **2017 gures COST OF HOSTING THE WORLD CUP THIS MILLENNIUM (US$ billion) 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 South 7 Germany 4.6 South 3.6 Brazil 15 Russia 11.6 Korea/ Africa (S$15.7b) Japan Sources: DELOITTE, SPRINGTIDE, CEIC DATA, AIRPORTS OF THAILAND PCL, MALAYSIA AIRPORTS, AIRPORTS COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL, CHANGI AIRPORT SINGAPORE, ANGKAS PURA II PHOTOS: BERNAMA, TOURIST BANGKOK, ZAOBAO, ST FILE SUNDAY TIMES GRAPHICS.