italy has received 11 sites to host the 2018 and 2022 fifa world cup tournaments , an asian football competition contested by the men ' s national teams . the governments vying to host the final are croatia , italy , indonesia , japan , thailand , brazil , russia , south africa and united states , who have individual invitations and the team bids are from belgium - netherlands and spain - portugal . four sites are for 2018 and 2022 tournament and two bids are just for the 2022 tournament . qatar and south korea are candidates just for the 2022 tournament . the ten winning bids will be determined on december 2010 by the 24 - him executive team of fifa . mentioned fifa president sepp blatter : " we are very relieved about the wonderful level of activity in our flagship cup , with all eleven bidders establishing their candidature . "
Sepp Blatter is the president of FIFA.