The FIFA Executive Committee, chaired by President Joseph “Sepp” Blatter, approved the voting process to determine the hosts of the 2018 FIFA World Cup™ and 2022 FIFA World Cup™ during its meeting held in Zurich on Oct. 28 and 29.
The voting will take place at the Home of FIFA in Zurich on Thursday, Dec. 2, and the process will be as follows:
- The 2018 vote will take place first, then the 2022 one. The vote will be by secret ballot and all eligible members of the FIFA Executive Committee can vote in both ballots
- To win the right to host the competition, a bidder must obtain an absolute majority (50% + 1) of the votes of the FIFA Executive Committee members present
- In the event of a tie when only two bidders remain, the FIFA President will have the casting vote
- For any voting round in which an absolute majority is not achieved, the bidder with the lowest number of votes will not progress to the next voting round
- If there is a tie for the lowest number of votes in any round, an intermediate voting round will be conducted to determine which of the tied bidders does not progress
- When the final decision on the host has been taken, the result will be put in two envelopes and taken by the notary to the “Messe Zurich”, where they will be handed over to the FIFA President for the announcements
