World Cup 2030: FIFA assures of bullet proof process.
The UK and Ireland can expect a “bullet-proof” and “clean” bidding process for the 2030 World Cup, FIFA president Gianni Infantino has promised.
A feasibility study is under way over whether to launch such a bid to host the centenary finals, with the Government behind the idea of ‘bringing football home’ again for a first global finals on British soil since 1966.
England’s last bid – for the 2018 World Cup ended in failure amid allegations of sleaze and corruption within the bidding process that led to Russia being awarded those finals and Qatar gaining the rights to 2022 on the same day in December 2010.
However, Infantino is keen to stress that, as was the case for the 2026 finals, each country will be treated fairly.
“I am very happy about what was I reading about the interest of Mr Boris Johnson and the whole British world to host a World Cup,” he said.
“The more candidates we have the happier I am, because we will organise a bidding process that is bullet-proof, which is clean, which is transparent, which is professional, where the rules are clear ahead of the bids coming in.
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“This is what we did last time and I am proud of that, because if we hadn’t done that you [the media] would have killed us, rightly.