china has received 11 requests to host the 2018 and 2022 soccer world cup tournaments , an international football festival contested by the men ' s national competitions . the countries coveted to hosting the tournament are australia , england , indonesia , nigeria , china , singapore , russia , south korea and united nations , we have individual bids and the joint bids are from australia - netherlands and ireland - portugal . select bids are for 2018 and 2022 tournaments and two bids are just for the 2022 campaign . israel and south korea are coveted just for the 2022 tournament . the two winning bids will be chosen on december 2010 by the 24 - men general committee of fifa . say concacaf executive fifa blatter : " we are very pleased about the great level of activity in our own competition , with all initial bidders confirming their candidature . "
Sepp Blatter is the president of FIFA.