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2022 World Cup host announcement

Football fans get ready: here is when you will find out if Australia will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

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It’s a whopping twelve years away, but if Australia has any chance of hosting the FIFA World Cup in 2022 we’ll know the answer in just over two weeks time.

FIFA will announce host cities for both the World Cup 2018 and 2022 from Zurich, Switzerland in early December.

There are nine bidders competing for the right to host the 21st and 22nd FIFA World Cups.

England, Russia and joint bids by Spain-Portugal and Netherlands-Belgium are in the running to host the 2018 World Cup.

For 2022, the contenders are Australia, Japan, Qatar, South Korea and the USA.

SBS ONE will screen the announcement Live at 1:55am on Friday December 3rd (Thursday night).

Start counting the sleeps.

Update: ONE HD will also air Live.

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  1. Dear Mr. chandler, Qld is more than just the GC. “Booming”??? Don’t make me laugh. The Teletubbies out-rates the AFL on TV in NSW and Qld. As for numbers….the NRL spoiled the party by proving participation numbers in AusKick used by the AFL does not translate into registered AFL players. There have always been Australian Rules clubs in NSW and Qld, nothing’s changed. You think hiring a couple of high profile League players and sinking a pile of money into teams on the Gold Coast and Western Sydney has changed anything? Junior Rugby League registrations have increased in Western Sydney and the GC despite the bias spin from the Arrogant Football League. It is all about social culture and the AFL is not a part of the local culture. It does have a small but healthy following on the GC, but that is from southerners who have moved there. Rugby League and the Titans own the GC and the Brisbane Broncos are the most supported football club in Australia (spectator numbers + TV viewers), yes even more than Collingwood! However soccer has always been there as a strongly supported junior code across the country. It is the dominant junior team sport behind League in Qld where the A-League is also enjoying increased viewer numbers.

  2. “@Dave C. we won’t be getting any new stadiums. they are just up grading old stadiums”

    Get your facts right Mr. chandler. There will be three brand new stadiums, one in Canberra, one on the site of the current Subiaco oval in Perth, and one on the site of Blacktown Olympic Park in Sydney. The 5 Major upgrades are indisputably Major, bringing those 5 stadiums in line with top stadiums around the world. For example, the upgrade at Dairy Farmers Stadium in Townsville will boost the capacity by over 50%. That is nothing to scoff at. There is no “just” about it.

  3. @Mr chandler – your second comment got in the way! I was hoping that your prediction that the US will be given 2022 will be wrong (not saying it will be, just hoping). Personally I think both US and us have strong cases.

    I know AusKick has been doing well in NSW.

    @l3xm4rk – I hadn’t realised that you were on the FFA World Cup Bid Committee. Thank you for enlightening us. I’ll go and put that bet on now.

    Or have I just made a rash assumption based on no actual evidence?

  4. i would love australia to host the football world cup. but we have to be realistic about it. america have the money, better tv money and their stadiums that they’re putting forward make our stadiums look like local soccer grounds out in the suburbs.@Dave C. we won’t be getting any new stadiums. they are just up grading old stadiums

  7. You mean host country not host cities David. Can’t wait until this bid annoucement! This will be huge for Australia economy and will also benefit other sports in Australia for decades with new Stadiums…also upgrades to Stadiums around the country. So even if you are not a fan now of the World Cup you will be.

  10. @Secret Squïrre. more kids are playing afl in sydney. auskick is growing every year in sydney. oh 1 more thing i haven’t seen the renew x factor for next year yet so. so i haven’t been wrong about that yet

  12. @Barry – I think you know that the reason for the higher conversion rates away from soccer to the more popular code in each state is because that is where the money and TV exposure is (unless you are very talented and can get into one of the big o/seas leagues).

    I think you’ll find that this will bring enough international visitors in to easily pay for itself. Where are you getting your data from that Sydney is still paying for the Olympics?

    @mr chandler – I hope that prediction of yours is as inaccurate as your other predictions.

  13. @Barry. So that’s why the gold coast united keep getting 2 thousand to every game. i think you’ll find the afl is booming in qld and is starting to grow further in nsw

  14. @Footballers Wife.

    Great point! There are more juniors – aged under 10 – playing soccer than any other code (certainly Notcombined though). Main reason for this is ignorant, over-protective mothers who don’t want their “little johnny” to get hurt playing those nasty popular football codes, so soccer is seen as whimpy and safe. However when these “little johnnies” are old enough to make up their own minds, take a look at the conversion rates to AFL and Rugby League and how soccer pails into insignificance.

    However soccer, as in the A-League, is more popular in NSW and Qld than AFL and certainly more popular in the southern states than Rugby League, so at least it has a nation-wide following.

  15. Soccer? No thanks… total waste of money.

    Rather than spend it on hosting somebody else’s game (in which Australia are just minnows) I’d prefer it be spent on reducing electricity prices, roads without tolls, better hospitals and schools and lowering rents and house prices.

    Sydney is still paying for the Olympics…two weeks of very expensive joy, followed by a 20 year headache!

  16. Russia/OZ will host the ’18/’22 World Cups. Russia will get it via s***loads of brown paper bags full of kanga to Blatters boys and we’ll get it as were the only continent to not host a WC.

  18. @ Steve

    1. Explain to me how it is a Waste of Money, If Australia wins the World Cup, It will generate more money then the Olympics.

    2. Almost No-one is Australia cares – Yeah that’s why over 300,000 people have signed the petition, and thousands more every day.

    3. We are not even competing with the Dutch and Belgians. They are bidding for 2018 – we are bidding for 2022.

    Learn the facts before you make a stupid comment like that

  20. I don’t care how much money it costs, to get the World Cup in Australia would be fantastic. All of the people who whinged about Sydney getting the Olympics were proven wrong. It’s not just about football (soccer to the one-eyed AFL/NRL lovers), Australia will be in party festive mode for 1 month. I will be a great once in a lifetime opportunity.

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