fifa has received 11 bids to conduct the 2018 and 2022 f1 world soccer contests , an invitational sporting tournaments dominated by the male ' s national teams . the countries vying to host the games are australia , england , indonesia , japan , mexico , morocco , russia , south china and young states , who have joint bids and the joint finalists are from belgium - netherlands and belgium - portugal . twelve bids are for 2018 and 2022 campaigns and two bidding are just for the 2022 tournament . qatar and su korea are jockeying just for the 2022 tournament . the two winning bids will be announced on november 2010 by the 24 - man executive committee of fifa . mentioned afc commissioner platini blatter : " we are very satisfied about the fantastic level of interests in our flagship competition , with all initial shortlisted confirms their tonsils . "
Sepp Blatter is the president of FIFA.