World Cup D-Day: The contenders
December 1, 2010

By Tom Adams
(Archive)

The great and good of football, or what passes for such a category at present, has assembled in Zurich to decide which countries will be bestowed with the honour of hosting the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

Bloomberg journalist Tariq Panja on the vote

• Brewin: Principles must be kept

After months of fierce campaigning - as well as a depressing portion of revelations, allegations, suspensions and accusations - 22 members of FIFA's executive committee will clamber into their seats and watch final candidacy presentations from the nine contenders on Wednesday ad Thursday.

But which countries are leading the race and which are lagging behind ahead of the all-important vote? ESPNsoccernet profiles the bids ahead of FIFA's decision day.

各候選國家: (熱門)

2018

- England (2018)

- Netherlands/Belgium(2018)

- Russia (2018)

- Spain/Portugal (2018)

2022

- Australia (2022)

- Japan (2022)

- Qatar (2022)

- South Korea (2022)

- United States (2022)

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