England ‘s 2018–2022 World Cup Bid logo England 2018 was the Football Association ‘s unsuccessful bid for the right to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup. [ 1 ] FIFA invited bidding countries to bid for either the 2018 or the 2022 finals, or both. The FA initially decided to bid for both, but with the withdrawal of all non-European bids for the 2018 consequence, this wish, and that of all other european bid nations, were efficaciously disqualified from eligibility for the 2022 edition. England ‘s invite was managed by England 2018/2022 Bidding nation Ltd. This party was established by The FA for the determination of bringing the World Cup tournament to England for the beginning fourth dimension since 1966. England attempted to host the 2006 FIFA World Cup but lost out to Germany. England hosted the 1966 FIFA World Cup and had the campaign been successful, England would have become the sixth nation to host the World Cup for a second clock time. [ 2 ] It won the right to host Euro ’96. Andy Anson, England 2018 Chief Executive, called for humility with England ‘s wish claim they “ must not fall victim to arrogance ” and that lessons had been learned from the unsuccessful try to host the 2006 competition. Anson stated that “ the tone of this campaign has to be unlike. [ 3 ]

Bid team [edit ]

The dining table of England 2018 was chaired by Lord Triesman, chair of The FA, who has since resigned. He was joined by Geoffrey Thompson, vice president of FIFA ; Lord Mawhinney, president of the Football League ; Paul Elliott, who is the chair of the Advisory Group to the command ; and Lord ( Sebastian ) Coe, who led London ‘s successful bid for the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, is chair of LOCOG, and who took leave of absence from his function as president of the FIFA Ethics Committee to join the bid team. The head administrator of England 2018 was Andy Anson, once head executive for Europe of the ATP, and previously commercial director of Manchester United. [ 4 ] The non-executive and subordinate Advisory Group to the offer consisted of Karren Brady, erstwhile managing director of Birmingham City ; Martin Sorrell, head administrator of WPP ; David Gill, foreman executive of Manchester United ; the former Minister for Sport, Gerry Sutcliffe and Sir Keith Mills, deputy president of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games ( LOCOG ). [ 5 ] The bid had the support of Prince William, the FA ‘s president. The vice presidents of England ‘s 2018 bid team were David Beckham, England international and the area ‘s second most cap player ; John Barnes, a former England international ; England coach Fabio Capello ; Hope Powell, coach of the England women ‘s team ; Peter Kenyon, headman executive of Chelsea ; Gordon Taylor, chief administrator of the PFA ; Terry Leahy, the headman executive of Tesco ; and economist Nicholas Stern. [ 6 ] The England World Cup bid besides received the aid of Ronnie Flanagan as an adviser on safety and security. [ 7 ]

schedule [edit ]

Date Notes
15 January 2009 Applications formally invited
2 February 2009 Closing date for registering intention to bid
16 March 2009 Deadline to submit completed bid registration forms
14 May 2010 Deadline for submission of full details of bid
23–26 August 2010 Inspection committee visited England[8]
2 December 2010 FIFA appointed hosts for 2018 and 2022 World Cups

The FA announced its intention to bid on 31 October 2007, and the Bid Registration Form was issued to FIFA ‘s headquarters in Zurich on 17 March 2009. Detailed applications needed to be submitted to FIFA by December 2009, with the final submission of full details of the bid being sent by 14 May 2010. The host countries of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup tournaments were announced in December 2010. [ 9 ] England ‘s invite was formally presented for the first clock on 18 May 2009 by adrian Chiles in the Bobby Moore Room at Wembley Stadium. [ 10 ] England players from past and present including Wayne Rooney and Sir Bobby Charlton gave their support with Prime Minister Gordon Brown, along with the support of Conservative Party leader David Cameron and Liberal Democrats drawing card Nick Clegg. The presentation besides received an sanction from West Ham United ‘s italian coach Gianfranco Zola and he believed that England ‘would be a great place to play a World Cup ‘. [ 11 ] After the presentation, the bid team spoke with representatives from each of the fifteen potential host cities .

Details [edit ]

One server city may have two designated World Cup stadiums though all others may have only one stadium in use. however, England ‘s invite can contain more than one city with two stadiums or more. [ 12 ] now that the England wish team has put advancing a number of potential host cities and venues, it is now the decision of FIFA to choose the concluding list of cities and stadium in late 2010. This would outline the venues of the World Cup if England were chosen to host the tournament. [ 13 ] Stadiums must besides be able to accommodate a 20,000 square feet ( 1,900 m2 ) cordial reception village no more than 150 metres from the stadium. They must have a capacitance of at least 40,000 for group and moment orotund matches and 60,000 for one-fourth finals and beyond, [ 14 ] while the final must be played at a venue with a capacity of 80,000. [ 15 ] With gaze to selecting a master of ceremonies city, FIFA and the England 2018 invite team assessed the candidates ‘ capabilities to deliver on a number of areas including :

  • A range of suitable hotel accommodation
  • Training and base camp facilities
  • A dedicated fan park with giant screen for the duration of the tournament
  • VIP hospitality facilities located in the city centre
  • Adequate transport links to the city itself and to the other host cities
  • A high standard of environmental and sustainability initiatives
  • Support of the public in the city along with the regional media[16]

Venues [edit ]

A total of fifteen stadium from twelve cities were proposed to FIFA. Had England ‘s bid been successful, the concluding decisiveness on which would host matches would have been made in 2013. Three stadium would have been forwarded from London : Wembley Stadium, Arsenal ‘s Emirates Stadium and either the Olympic Stadium or Tottenham Hotspur ‘s yet-to-be-built modern land ( if the latter were ready ). At the time of command, the Olympic Stadium was under construction for the Olympic games in 2012 ; its future following the Olympics was unclear and beyond the control of the World Cup bid committee, and so the Tottenham footing was put forward alongside it. It was not made clear during the bid which stadium would have been preferred had both stadia been feasible candidates in 2013. [ 13 ] The early stadium that were nominated were Sunderland ‘s stadium of Light, Birmingham ‘s Villa Park, the New Nottingham Forest Stadium, Elland Road in Leeds, Sheffield ‘s Hillsborough Stadium, St James ‘ Park in Newcastle, the new Bristol City Stadium, Plymouth ‘s Home Park, Old Trafford and the City of Manchester Stadium in Manchester, and, in Liverpool, either the existing Anfield or the proposed Stanley Park Stadium. In the shell of Liverpool, the bid committee determined that the current Anfield stadium would have been, with minor improvements, acceptable for World Cup matches ; however, because of Liverpool FC ‘s plans to build a new grind, the committee specified that the newly stadium would take the identify of Anfield if it were ready in time. [ 13 ] many of the stadium selected would have required child modernization in holy order to meet the hard-and-fast requirements for holding World Cup tournament games, as is usual for all preexistent stadium. The grounds in Leeds, Sheffield, Milton Keynes and Plymouth in particular were all set for an increase in capacity, whilst newly stadiums proposed in Nottingham and Bristol were a part of the bid.

here is a list of propose stadium : Note – The capacities listed are those listed in the official wish book and not the sum capacity each stadium is actually capable of holding .
a : stadium used in 1966 FIFA World Cup
b : stadium used in UEFA Euro ’96

Rejected bid venues [edit ]

Before the final decision was made by a ‘technical dialog box ‘, Derby, [ 17 ] Kingston upon Hull, [ 18 ] Leicester [ 19 ] and Portsmouth [ 20 ] ( who late withdrew ) [ 21 ] were besides among the list of possible venues until the 12 ‘final cities ‘ were announced on 16 December 2009. [ 22 ]

Official bid partners [edit ]

Outcome and reaction [edit ]

England ‘s invite for the World Cup was unsuccessful, only receiving 2 out of 22 votes from the FIFA administrator committee in the first round of vote. The rights to host the 2018 World Cup were finally awarded to Russia. At a conference in Qatar in March 2012, Premier League chair and deputy president of the 2018 bid, Dave Richards, said FIFA allowed the FA to waste money on their 2018 World Cup bid when, he claimed, they had little find of winning it, stating “ Why could n’t FIFA have said we want to take it to the Gulf ? We spent £19m on that offer. When we went for it everybody believed we had a chance. But, as we went through it, a form emerged that suggested possibly we did n’t. ” [ 23 ] The Football Association and the Premier League distanced themselves from Richards ‘ remarks, stressing that he was attending the conference in a personal capability .

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