Fifa President Sepp Blatter has revealed that a deal is being discussed where only European nations will be able to bid for the 2018 World Cup.
If the agreement is implemented, it will mean that only England, Russia, Spain/Portugal and Belgium/Holland will be able to bid for the tournament in 2018. Other bidders such as USA, [...]

Russian chief executive Alexey Sorokin has stated his confidence in his country’s ability to win the rights to the 2018 World Cup.
With the final decision being made in December 2010, Sorokin is trying to pull out all the stops to ensure that the majority of the 24 voters back the Russian bid.
The country recently unveiled a £12 [...]

Russia have submitted their official bid for the rights to host the World Cup for the first time in their history.
The country is primarily bidding for the 2018 tournament although they have expressed an interest in staging the 2022 event if the former bid fails to win the vote.

Vitaly Mutko, Russian Sports Minister, said: “If and [...]

The World Cup of 2018 can be hosted by countries from all continents, except Africa (which will host the World Cup 2010 through South Africa) and South America (Brazil hosting the 2014 World Cup) which are ineligible as they would have organised the past two World Cups.

One of the two most-powerful bids coming from Europe [...]