NYC/NJ Make List of Host Cities for U.S. World Cup Bid

If the United States succeeds in its bid to host the FIFA World Cup in 2018 or 2022, the New York area will be a host city. Following a nine-month selection process, the USA Bid Committee selected New York-New Jersey, which is really just New Jersey, as one of the eighteen cities that would host World Cup matches.

Games in "New York" would be at the New Meadowlands Stadium, the future home of the Giants and Jets. Giants Stadium hosted seven games during the 1994 World Cup when the United States acted as the host of the tournament for its first and only time. The other host cities would be Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City MO/KS, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, Philadelphia, Phoenix-Glendale, San Diego, Seattle, Tampa Bay and Washington D.C.

Other nations bidding for 2018 and 2022 include Australia, Belgium/Netherlands, England, Japan, Russia, and Spain/Portugal while Indonesia, South Korea and Qatar are vying only for the 2022 World Cup. FIFA will announce the hosts of both tournaments in December of this year.

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By tien mao in News on January 12, 2010 4:30 PM

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SikBug

This would be worth trekking to NJ for. Please let this happen!

marcyd

It's NJ. Not NY-NJ. Just like the NY Giants and Jets are really the NJ Giants and Jets. NY please stop crapping all over NJ and then claiming anything good about it as your own, thanks.

longacre

Do you think organizers would be considering the Meadowlands if there weren't a giant metropolis across the river? If not for that, NJ would be just as likely to score this as Delaware or Wyoming.

Steven

Well not really. Jersey is also located right next to Philadelphia.

The problem with Jersey it's the only state sandwich between two major cities. You're either in the NYC area or the Philadelphia area.