Awarding of the soccer world championships 2018 and 2022

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The award of the 21st and 22nd men's soccer world championships should take place jointly according to the decision of the world soccer association FIFA . The selection of the host countries took place on December 2, 2010 at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich . After completion, it was clear that the World Cup would take place in Russia in 2018 and in Qatar in 2022 .

prehistory

Joint award

On December 19, 2008, the FIFA Executive Committee decided at its meeting in Tokyo to award the two World Cups in 2018 and 2022 at the same time. The deadline for member associations to express their interest in hosting ended on February 2, 2009.

Continental rotation principle

FIFA Continental Associations

The allocation of the soccer world championships follows a rotation system among the six continental associations:

In accordance with the rotation procedure modified in 2007, the continental associations in which the last two World Cups took place ( Africa with South Africa 2010 and South America with Brazil 2014 ) are excluded from the application process for the 2018 tournament .

Only the South American associations were not allowed to submit a candidacy for the 2022 World Cup. However, no African association has applied for 2022 either, because due to the strong competition from North America, Europe and Asia, only 12 years since the last World Cup on African soil, no chance was seen. The other applicants from the Continental Association , which was awarded the contract for 2018, were also not considered for 2022.

Because of this rotation principle and since every second World Cup has been held in Europe so far, it was difficult to imagine that three World Cups in a row would now take place outside Europe. It could therefore be assumed that the 2018 World Cup will take place in Europe , while the 2022 tournament will take place in Asia, Australia or North America.

Procedure of the application process

In April 2009, FIFA sent the interested associations the application agreement, which sets out exactly what details, agreements and information the application dossier must contain. The signed application agreement had to be returned to FIFA by December 11, 2009.

FIFA announced the decision to award the two finals on December 2, 2010 in Zurich.

Applicants for alignment

The following FIFA member associations have issued an official declaration of interest for hosting the 2018 and 2022 World Cups:

Application for 2018

Applicants from the European association UEFA, most recently hosted by the 2006 World Cup in Germany, were:

Application for 2022

The Asian association AFC hosted the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea. This association applied to host the 2022 World Cup:

  • Australia (host of the 1998 and 2004 Oceania Cups) withdrew its application for 2018 due to the high probability of an award to Europe and is concentrating on the application for 2022. Despite its geographical location, Australia has been a member of the Asian Continental Association since 2006.
  • Japan co-hosted 2002, withdrawing its 2018 application for the same reason as Australia.
  • South Korea was the other co-host in 2002 and only applied for 2022 from the start.
  • Qatar hosted the Asian Football Championships in 1988 and 2011 and also only applied for 2022.

The North American association CONCACAF, which last hosted the 1994 World Cup in the USA, again applied:

  • United States (hosted in 1994 ) withdrew its application for 2018 for the same reason as Australia.

Withdrawn and rejected applications

  • Indonesia (AFC) co-hosted the 2007 Asian Cup . His application was rejected by FIFA because the required documents and guarantees were not submitted.
  • Mexico (CONCACAF) has hosted two World Cups ( 1970 and 1986 ). The most successful sporting association in the North American group withdrew its application on September 28, 2009 due to unclear funding.
  • All UEFA applicants originally also applied for the 2022 World Cup, but when only UEFA member states remained for the 2018 World Cup, these applications were irrelevant, as only every third World Cup can take place in the same continental association.
Applications
2018
BelgiumBelgiumNetherlandsNetherlands Belgium & Netherlands Map of 2018 FIFA World Cup bids.svg
EnglandEngland England
RussiaRussia Russia
PortugalPortugalSpainSpain Portugal & Spain
Applications in
2022 		AustraliaAustralia Australia
JapanJapan Japan
QatarQatar Qatar
Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea
United StatesUnited States United States
 Withdrawn 
applications 		IndonesiaIndonesia Indonesia
MexicoMexico Mexico
  • Application 2018
    		•
  • Application 2022
    		•
  • Withdrawn application
    		•
  • Locked in 2018
    		•
  • Closed in 2018 & 2022
    		•

    choice

    To win a candidacy you need an absolute majority of the votes, i.e. at least twelve votes. If this does not succeed in one ballot, the candidate with the lowest number of votes falls out and another ballot is held. This is the same voting mode as for the allocation of Summer and Winter Olympic Games .

    World Cup 2018
    Applicants 1 round 2nd round
    RussiaRussia Russia 9 13
    SpainSpain Spain & PortugalPortugalPortugal  7th 7th
    NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands & BelgiumBelgiumBelgium  4th 2
    EnglandEngland England 2 -
    World Cup 2022
    Applicants 1 round 2nd round 3rd round 4th round
    QatarQatar Qatar 11 10 11 14th
    United StatesUnited States United States 3 5 6th 8th
    Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 4th 5 5 -
    JapanJapan Japan 3 2 - -
    AustraliaAustralia Australia 1 - - -

    This made Russia (2018) and Qatar (2022) the winners.

    Corruption allegations

    Corruption allegations were raised in October 2010: two reporters for the Sunday Times posed as lobbyists for American companies and offered two members of the FIFA Executive Committee large sums of money if they voted for the US to host the event in 2022. Both functionaries responded to these offers, stating that they wanted to put the offered sums into the football infrastructure.

    Until the end of May 2011, the corruption allegations led to a crisis in the world football association, in which ten of the 24 members of the executive are now under suspicion.

    Another Sunday Times report states that money was poured in prior to the award. Accordingly, the former Qatari official Mohamed bin Hammam paid five million dollars to officials. Bin Hammam was banned for life in 2011 for violating the code of ethics. Together with FIFA official Jack Warner , he is said to have tried to buy votes at a meeting of the Caribbean Football Union.

    In 2012, FIFA hired US lawyer Michael J. Garcia to investigate the matter. The Garcia report was published in full in 2014 and in full in 2017.

    Former FIFA official Rafael Salguero pleaded guilty to four corruption cases in the US Department of Justice's investigation into the award of the 2018 World Cup. This emerges from court documents from 2016, which were published in December 2018. Salguero admitted, among other things, that he was offered hundreds of thousands of dollars for his vote in the World Cup in 2010 on a flight from Mexico to Guatemala. He had met the contact person, whose name had been obscured in the court documents, several times to discuss the bribe payment. He voted for the applicant in question, but did not receive the money.

    Of the 22 electorates at the 2010 World Cup, two were still in FIFA office in 2017, Ángel María Villar and Hany Abo Rida . Maria Villar resigned on July 27, 2017 shortly after being suspended by the Spanish Football Association.

    In early May 2020, New York revelations revealed that the votes of three FIFA officials, including Ricardo Teixeira and Nicolás Leoz , had been bought to vote for Qatar. Despite the evidence, however, it seems unlikely that the World Cup would be withdrawn from Qatar. In addition to financial losses for FIFA, the construction of the stadiums in Qatar is already too far advanced; the USA would also have little interest in filing a lawsuit due to hosting the 2026 World Cup. Former FIFA boss Sepp Blatter said in an ARD interview: “The World Cup will be played in Qatar.” According to whistleblower Bonita Mersiades , who was part of the Australian delegation in 2010, all nations should at least try before the award would have to buy votes.

    Effects on the following world championships

    According to the current rotation system, the 2026 cannot take place in Europe (UEFA) or Asia (AFC), while the 2030 cannot take place in Asia.

    Individual evidence

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    2. ↑ Great interest in the most important FIFA competition. In: fifa.com. FIFA, February 3, 2009, accessed July 18, 2013 .
    3. ↑ www.thebid.org ( Memento of the original dated December 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thebid.org
    4. ↑ www.russia2018-2022.com
    5. ↑ www.australia2018-2022.com.au
    6. ↑ japan2018.com
    7. ↑ a b c Japan drops bid to host 2018 World Cup to aim for 2022. In: bbc.co.uk. British Broadcasting Corporation , May 4, 2010, accessed July 18, 2013 .
    8. ↑ www.qatar2022bid.com
    9. ↑ www.gousabid.com
    10. ↑ USA withdraws World Cup application. In: sport1.de. Sport1 , October 15, 2010, accessed July 18, 2013 .
    11. ↑ Mexico withdraws FIFA World Cup bid. In: fifa.com. FIFA, September 29, 2009, accessed July 18, 2013 .
    12. ↑ Fifa corruption scandal. In: welt.de. Die Welt , October 18, 2010, accessed on October 18, 2010 .
    13. ↑ Did Blatter receive 20 million euros in bribes for WM? In: Abendblatt.de. Hamburger Abendblatt , May 31, 2011, accessed on May 31, 2011 .
    14. ↑ World Cup award to Qatar: Report confirms suspicion of corruption. In: ksta.de. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , June 1, 2014, accessed June 1, 2014 .
    15. ↑ Former Fifa executive says he was offered large bribe for 2018 World Cup vote . In: Guardian , December 4, 2018.
    16. ↑ Garcia Report: Fifa shows explosive report on World Cup awards , on faz.net, from June 27, 2017. Retrieved on August 6, 2019.
    17. ↑ Sepp Blatter: WM 2022 will take place in Qatar , on sueddeutsche.de, on May 3, 2020. Accessed on May 3, 2020.
    18. ↑ FIFA process - new revelations on the 2022 World Cup awards , on sportschau.de, from May 3, 2020. Accessed on May 3, 2020.