The 2018 FIFA World Cup will be the 21st FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial universal football competition challenged by the men's national groups of the part relationship of FIFA. It is planned to occur in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018,[2] after the nation was granted the facilitating rights on 2 December 2010.
This will be the principal World Cup held in Europe since the 2006 competition in Germany, and the primary ever to be held in Eastern Europe. The majority of the stadium scenes are in European Russia, to keep travel time reasonable.
The last competition will include 32 national groups, which incorporate 31 groups decided through qualifying rivalries and the naturally qualified host group. Of the 32 groups, 20 will show up following the last competition in 2014, including safeguarding champions Germany, while Iceland and Panama will both show up at a FIFA World Cup. A sum of 64 matches will be played in 12 settings situated in 11 urban communities. The last will occur on 15 July at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow
The offering methodology to have the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups started in January 2009, and national affiliations had until 2 February 2009 to enroll their interest.[6] Initially, nine nations set offers for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, yet Mexico later pulled back from proceedings,[7] and Indonesia's offered was dismissed by FIFA in February 2010 after the Indonesian government neglected to present a letter to help the bid.[8] During the offering procedure, the three residual non-UEFA countries (Australia, Japan, and the United States) step by step pulled back from the 2018 offers, and the UEFA countries were in this way controlled out of the 2022 offer. Thusly, there were in the end four offers for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, two of which were joint offers: England, Russia, Netherlands/Belgium, and Portugal/Spain.
The twenty-two-part FIFA Executive Committee gathered in Zürich on 2 December 2010 to vote to choose the hosts of both tournaments.[9] 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's offered to have its second competition fell at the main obstacle
