Morocco and the three-nation ticket of the
United States, Mexico, and Canada formally confirmed their bids to host the
2026 World Cup on Thursday's deadline.
That World Cup will be the first to
include 48 teams, rather than the 32 who will compete in Russia next year and
in Qatar in 2022.
The next stage will be the submission of
complete candidacy dossiers by the candidates on March 16. The host will be chosen on June 13 next
year, but the way the choice is made marks a change by Fifa, the governing body
of world football.
The decision used to be made by Fifa's
executive committee, but following the suspicions that hovered over its
selection of Russia and Qatar in December 2010, and the subsequent scandal that
dethroned president Sepp Blatter, the committee was stripped of some power and
renamed the FIFA Council.
The new-look council must rubber-stamp the
bids, but the final decision will be taken in a vote of the 211 national
federations at a congress in Moscow.
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