British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says it is the “right time” for the United Kingdom and Ireland to launch a bid to host the 2030 soccer World Cup, while he added the country would also be willing to host extra Euro 2020 matches this year if required.

“We are very, very keen to bring football home in 2030. I do think it’s the right place,” Johnson said in an interview with The Sun. “It’s the home of football, it’s the right time. It will be an absolutely wonderful thing for the country.”

The newspaper reported that Chancellor Rishi Sunak will set aside £2.8 million in his budget on Tuesday to promote a bid for Fifa’s World Cup tournament along with £25 million of fresh funding for the grassroots game.

“We want to see a bonanza of football in the years ahead,” Johnson added. England’s FA joined its counterparts in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland in welcoming the government’s financial pledge to kick-start a potential 2030 World Cup bid.

The World Cup has only been held on British shores once before, when England triumphed on home soil in 1966.

Johnson also left the door open to the UK hosting additional Euro 2020 games, after the government last week unveiled plans to end all restrictions on social contact in England by June 21.

“We are hosting the Euros. We are hosting the semis and the final,” he said. “If they want any other matches that they want hosted, we’re certainly on for that but at the moment that’s where we are with Uefa.”