World Cup 2018

Host choice

Russian offer work force praise the granting of the 2018 World Cup to Russia, December 2010.

Russian president Vladimir Putin holding the FIFA World Cup Trophy at a pre-competition function in Moscow, September 2017

The 100-ruble dedicatory banknote, which praises the 2018 FIFA World Cup. It includes a picture of Russian goalkeeper Lev Yashin.

The offering technique to have the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup competitions started in January 2009, and national affiliations had until 2 February 2009 to enroll their advantage. At first, nine nations put offers for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, yet Mexico later pulled back from procedures, and Indonesia's offered was dismissed by FIFA in February 2010 after the Indonesian government neglected to present a letter to help the offer. Amid the offering procedure, the three outstanding non-UEFA countries (Australia, Japan, and the United States) bit by bit pulled back from the 2018 offers, and the UEFA countries were along these lines administered out of the 2022 offer. Accordingly, there were in the long run four offers for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, two of which were joint offers: England, Russia, Netherlands/Belgium, and Portugal/Spain.

The 22-part FIFA Executive Committee met in Zürich on 2 December 2010 to vote to choose the hosts of the two competitions. Russia won the privilege to be the 2018 host in the second round of voting. The Portugal/Spain offer came next, and that from Belgium/Netherlands third. Britain, which was offering to have its second competition, was disposed of in the first round.

Bidders	Votes
	Round 1	Round 2
Russia	9	13
Portugal / Spain	7	7
Belgium / Netherlands	4	2
England	2	Eliminated

The procedure was not without feedback. Charges of gift with respect to the Russian group and defilement from FIFA individuals were made especially by the English Football Association. It was asserted that four individuals from the official advisory group had asked for influences to vote in favor of England, and Sepp Blatter said that it had just been organized before the vote that Russia would win. The 2014 Garcia Report, an inside examination drove by Michael J. Garcia, was withheld from open discharge by Hans-Joachim Eckert, FIFA's head of settling on moral issues. Eckert rather discharged a shorter updated outline, and his (and in this manner FIFA's) hesitance to distribute the full report made Garcia leave in protest. Due to such contention, the FA declined to acknowledge Eckert's vindicating of Russia from fault, with Greg Dyke requiring a reevaluation of the issue and David Bernstein requiring a blacklist of the World Cup.