FIFA Receives 11 Official Bids For 2018 & 2022 World Cups

The dead­line for nations to bid on the 2018 & 2022 World Cup has passed and accord­ing to FIFA, 11 bids were sub­mit­ted. In alpha­bet­i­cal order, they are Aus­tralia, Bel­gium and the Nether­lands, Eng­land, Indone­sia, Japan, Korea Repub­lic, Mex­ico, Qatar, Rus­sia, Spain and Por­tu­gal, and the United States. FIFA Pres­i­dent Sepp Blat­ter said, “It is remark­able that so many high-quality con­tenders have expressed an ini­tial inter­est in host­ing our flag­ship competition.”

The next step, FIFA will send out a Bid Reg­is­tra­tion form on Feb­ru­ary 16th to the mem­ber asso­ci­a­tions that for­mally sub­mit­ted a bid for the 2018 & 2022 World Cups. The time­line for bid­ding is laid out in this FIFA doc­u­ment. Now the bid­ding nations have to get every­thing in order to impress FIFA.

Early buzz has Eng­land & the United States as the favorites to get the World Cups. Sepp Blatter’s recent dec­la­ra­tion that sin­gle nation bids will get con­sid­er­a­tion over joint bids puts a big dent in Spain/Portugal & Belgium/Netherlands hopes at land­ing a World Cup. The deci­sion on who gets the 2018 & 2022 World Cups will be made in 2010 but to fur­ther shape your opin­ion on the most intrigu­ing can­di­dates check out Part I & II of our analysis.

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