The bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups, the 21st and 22nd editions of the World Cup, is currently underway. The bidding procedure to host both World Cups began in January 2009, and national associations had until 2 February 2009 to register their interest. The twenty-two member FIFA Executive Committee will vote to select the two hosts on 2 December 2010. Candidates have applied for either or both of the 2018 and 2022 tournaments, but the 2022 hosts will not be chosen from the same continent as the 2018 hosts.
Currently, there are seven individual nations which have registered their intention with FIFA to bid for the right to host one of the two tournaments: Australia, England, Japan, Qatar, Russia, South Korea, and the United States. Additionally, Belgium and the Netherlands registered to bid together, as did Portugal and Spain. Mexico also submitted a bid, but withdrew it in September 2009. Indonesia's bid was rejected by FIFA in February 2010, as its government could not guarantee full support. While most nations bid for either tournament, Qatar and South Korea submitted bids for 2022 only, and Japan, Australia, and the United States who all originally bid for either tournament, withdrew their 2018 bids in favour of concentrating on 2022. This means that all the remaining bids for 2018 are from European countries, and in accordance with the rotation rules, that the 2022 tournament will be played outside Europe.
In October 2007, FIFA ended its continental rotation policy. Instead countries that are members of the same confederation as either of the last two tournament hosts are ineligible, leaving Africa ineligible for 2018 and South America ineligible for both 2018 and 2022. Other factors in the selection process include the number of suitable stadiums, and their location across candidate nations. Voting is done using a multiple round exhaustive ballot system whereby the candidate receiving the fewest votes in each round is eliminated until a single candidate is chosen by the majority.
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