Why would these stadiums (Moncton excluded) not be suitable to host WC games? Don't they meet the capacity requirements to be able to host?
Some do, barely, but my thoughts on this issue are well documented in this thread...to summarize
1) There are 3 nations in North America capable of hosting a World Cup (Canada, USA, Mexico)
2) So when we bid for a WC that could come to NA we are bidding, essentially, against those other two.
3) There have been many people showing different stadium ideas/configurations to get Canada to the bare minimum.....using the example above...it shows a spend of $875million that gets us to 11 stadiums of varying ages and quality. Aside from the cost estimates being very low ($200 million for a new NFL quality stadium? take a look at the latest or currently under construction NFL stadiums and the number is actually $1B) we end up with a mish mash of old stadiums or temporary seating and with no explanation of what the current tenants of those stadiums would due during the, what, 6 - 8 weeks that FIFA would demand complete control of the stadia (nor does it explain what those tenants due during the renovations).....and we get, on paper, to the bare minimum (assuming the world cup does not, as has been suggested, expand to 40 teams).
4) At least one of the countries that we would be bidding against (USA) can simply select from a vast array of stadia that far exceed the bare minimum, produce massive capacity/profits and don't have to spend money on it. Again, I remind people they are so stadium rich, their last bid (2022) excluded such prominent stadiums and cities as Soldier Field in Chicago and the new NFL stadium in San Francisco....they are just so rich in stadiums.
5) The women's world cup, however, is smaller, needs fewer venues (because they accept fake turf and the heavier stadium use that allows) and will accept the stadiums on a largely "as is" basis.
For the person that compiled that list of stadiums above, they need to ask themselves how/why they think we can do this for a capital cost of less than a Billion dollars in stadiums when recent history suggests that so much more is needed. Does it have to be the $4B spent in Brazil (total cost of the world cup was $11B so that means there is about $7B of non-stadium costs asociated with hosting)....likely not.....but 8 years ago, in a country that already had a significant supply of very good soccer stadiums, how much did Germany spend on stadium construction and renovation? (the stadium in Munich alone cost 340 million Euros...yet we can do the whole thing for just a wee bit more 20 years later?)
Let's just say, for fun, the $11B that Brazil spent on hosting the WC was twice as much as it should/could have been...and let's assume those costs do not escalate with inflation........how does the CSA raise the $5.5B they would need to host the event?