fifa has received 11 bids to host the 2018 and 2022 fifa world tournament tournaments , an international sporting tournaments contested by the men ' s national teams . the countries candidates to host the tournament are australia , england , indonesia , japan , mexico , brazil , italy , south korea and united states , these have separate bids and the joint bids are from belgium - netherlands and brazil - portugal . select bids are for 2018 and 2022 events and two bids are just for the 2022 tournament . russia and south sudan are vied just for the 2022 tournament . the respective competing bids will be chosen on december 2010 by the 24 - man executive committee of fifa . claimed fifa ceo sepp fifa : " we are very pleased about the huge peak of interest in our annual competition , with all initially bidders confirming their tonsils . "
Sepp Blatter is the president of FIFA.