FIFA President Gianni Infantino is set to travel approximately 57,700 miles during this year’s expanded World Cup as he attends nearly half of the tournament’s 104 matches, according to a Bloomberg calculation.

The 2026 World Cup is the first edition to feature 48 teams, increasing the total number of matches to 104. The tournament is being hosted across Canada, Mexico and the United States.

To attend matches across the three host countries, Infantino has flown about 57,700 miles, based on the shortest distances between airports, according to calculations using data from aviation data provider JetSpy.

His travel has been conducted aboard a luxury Gulfstream G650ER operated by Qatar Airways, with FIFA paying for the use of the aircraft.

The distance is equivalent to taking 23 flights between Los Angeles and New York, or travelling around the Earth’s equator twice.

Always dressed in a suit and surrounded by football officials, Infantino has become such a familiar presence at this year’s tournament that an online joke claiming he had appeared at two matches simultaneously went viral.

While he did not defy the laws of space and time, the FIFA president attended two matches played on the same day in different cities, and, on 13 occasions, in different countries.

His extensive attendance is particularly notable given the unprecedented scale of this year’s tournament.

At the 2022 World Cup, Infantino attended all 64 matches in Qatar, a country smaller than Connecticut.

By the end of the tournament, Infantino is expected to have attended nearly half of the 104 matches, underscoring the scale of his presence at the expanded competition.

This year’s competition features 40 additional matches and is the first World Cup in FIFA’s century-long history to be hosted by three countries.