Japan’s World Cup bid has announced Adidas Japan and five companies from the media and travel industries as its first official partners.
As well as Adidas, the backers are ...More>
London mayor Boris Johnson is to take over as chairman of London United, the group co-ordinating the capital's support for England's World Cup bid.
Johnson replaces Simon G...More>
Qatar World Cup bid chief executive Hassan al-Thawadi believes that awarding the tournament to the Middle East for the first time would help improve international relations wi...More>
The Holland-Belgium World Cup bid has welcomed Sepp Blatter’s comments about countries co-hosting major tournaments.
The Fifa president said at the end of last week that hi...More>
Brazilian legend Zico is to become an ambassador for Japan’s World Cup bid.
He has strong links with Japanese football having coached the national team at the 2006 World Cu...More>
The Football Federation of Australia (FFA) has hinted that it will make 2022 its priority after Fifa president Sepp Blatter revealed that the race to host the 2018 World Cup c...More>
Russia’s World Cup bid team has made its second senior appointment in the last week.
Viacheslav Koloskov, who served on the Fifa executive committee for 30 years in two sep...More>
Football Federation Australia (FFA) has promoted Rod Allen to head of media relations.
Allen, who joined the country’s World Cup bid team in November as a senior media advi...More>
Japan’s national rugby coach John Kirwan foresees problems if the country wins the 2018 football World Cup on top of hosting the rugby equivalent a year later.
Kirwan says ...More>
Fifa president Sepp Blatter has revealed that the race to host the 2018 World Cup could be limited to European countries.
England and Russia have applied separately to stag...More>
Russia’s World Cup bid has appointed former Fifa head of communications Markus Siegler as a “special adviser”.
He joins Andreas Herren, a former director of communications ...More>
England’s 2018 World Cup bid team has signed up former French footballer David Ginola as an ambassador.
Ginola – who became a fans’ favourite in the Premier League after sp...More>
The Australian Football Federation (FFA) has said that it will work to build closer ties with World Cup bidding rival Indonesia.
The FFA – which is bidding to host the Worl...More>
Chairman of the United States World Cup bid committee Sunil Gulati believes Europe is in pole position to host the World Cup in 2018.
Gulati thinks the US might have a bett...More>
