The host of the 2026 World Cup is set to be revealed on June 13, FIFA said Monday as it published the official details of bids from Morocco and a joint one from the United States, Mexico and Canada, currently the front-runner. The decision will be announced at the FIFA Congress in Moscow on the eve of the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Football's world governing body has changed its approach to selecting World Cup hosts and rejects claims from the African Football Confederation (CAF) that the technical evaluation of bids is loaded in favour of richer nations. "I challenge anyone to point out an organisation that conducts a bidding process as fair, objective and transparent as the one that FIFA is carrying out for the 2026 FIFA World Cup," FIFA president Gianni Infantino said on Monday. A source close to CAF complained that the evaluation process was unfair.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 28, 2018 07:18 UTC