The five countries campaigning to win the 2022 World Cup made their final pledge to host the event on Wednesday afternoon. Australia, Qatar, Japan, South Korea and the USA had some famous faces out in force for the presentations that can make such a big difference to the final vote. Former president Bill Clinton was supporting [...]

Qatar’s ambitious bid to host the 2022 World Cup has suffered a setback after FIFA regarded their strategy as high risk just weeks before the hosts are revealed. The hot weather during the summer months in Qatar seems to be the major stumbling point as there is no logical solution to minimise the temperature during [...]

The United States of America have pulled out of the race for the 2018 World Cup in order to focus their attentions on landing the 2022 tournament. As a result, Europe are now guaranteed to host the 2018 event with England, Russia, Spain/Portugal and Holland/Belgium strieving to earn the rights to stage the tournament in eight [...]

The United States have announced the 18 host cities that could host matches if the country’s 2018 or 2022 bid is successful. After an eight month selection process, the following cities were chosen: Atlanta, San Diego, Phoenix, Dallas, Seattle, Denver, Tampa, Indianapolis, Baltimore, Nashville, Kansas City, Houston, Miami, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Boston and [...]

The United States has revealed their new bid website in an effort to promote their campaign to secure the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The website, goUSAbid.com, also unveils the new bid theme: “The Game is in US” along with the new bid logo (below). The website is developed by the agency behind Barrack Obama’s election [...]

The USA Bid Committee for the 2018/22 World Cup has decided on a list of 70 potential stadiums above 50,000 in capacity to use as playing venues if they were to be awarded the 2018 or 2022 World Cup. FIFA’s requirements for the World Cup hosts is to have a minimum of 12 stadiums with [...]

Another rival of England to host the World Cup of 2018 is the United States. This country already has a large number of stadiums with a capacity over 70000. These are normally used for American football which is the most popular sports in the States and they are spread across a vast area. However, as [...]

It has emerged that the USA is preparing a bid to host the 2018 World Cup and will also offer to provide a backup in 2014 if a South American country proves unable to stage the event. “Obviously FIFA knows what we’re capable of and, if something else changed, we would be open to any [...]