The recent threat of Chile being thrown out of the World Cup looks to be over after domestic club Rangers backed down over their controversial relegation.
FIFA had given Chile’s football association three days to make Rangers drop a court case over their disputed relegation from the Chilian Premier Division or else they would risk a [...]

 
 With England looking to host the 2018 Fifa World Cup, the country needs a strong support from not only the public but also their bid team and that’s what England have got. With passionate football fans to top business executives they’re all on our board. Here are just a few of them:
David Triesman-Chairman
Chairman, The Football [...]

After a successful bid for the 2012 Olympics, the founders of football are taking on the job to bid for the mother of all football competitions the Fifa world cup. England, who have not hosted the tournament since their world cup triumph, are bidding for the 2018 and 2022 competitions.
Firstly we look at why we [...]

The new specific matchball that will used during the 2010 World Cup will be unveiled at a ceremony in South Africa on the 4th December 2009.
However, the revealing of the new ball will play second fiddle to the draw for the heavily anticipated competition due to begin in June 2010. The seedings for the World Cup [...]

 The Fifa World Cup is the biggest footballing competition in the world so no wonder bidding for this tournament is a highly competitive process. During an intense twenty four month bidding process, each bidder will be required to submit a detailed bid book to show what the country is planning.
The bidding started in January of [...]

In 2018 and 2022, the world cup will be celebrating its 21st and 22nd birthday and along with England there are seven other countries biding for both and two biding for only 2022 tournament. Since Africa and South America are due to host the world cup games in the coming years, they were ineligible to [...]

Over the coming weeks and days, I will be posting an interesting feature about both the 2018 and 2022 world cups. In this feature, I will being covering everything from: which nations are bidding for a specific tournament; a detailed report of each bid; who decides which bid will be successful; what processes Fifa take [...]

South Africa’s effort to host a successful World Cup have been dashed by the news that their major high speed rail link project will not be ready for the beginning of the 2010 tournament. It has been announced that the rail line will not be operational until at least two weeks into the tournament.
Organisers of South Africa [...]

The South African World Cup organisers have planned to provide a huge fleet of aeroplanes and shuttle buses to escort supporters to neighbouring cities and countries following matches at next summer’s World Cup.
The move comes following admissions that several cities would not have enough hotel accomodation to cope with the amount of travelling supporters to [...]

FIFA has confirmed that vast progress has been made after conducting a routine check of the venues that will stage the games at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
The inspectors from FIFA and the World Cup Organising Committee visited five specifically built stadiums for the tournament and were full of praise.
The tour was primarily [...]