MadWoodster

Just been examining a holiday game I left running and found the majority of World Cups hosted in Europe and South America. With a couple in South Africa and a couple in Mexico and USA. Has anyone seen a world cup hosted in Asia?

Bearing in mind that before Football Manager was released FIFA were planning to rotate the World Cup round the continents and then a couple fo weeks ago agreed that they would just bar the last two continents from hosting the world cup, I was hoping the world cup would be hosted by more different countries and certainly the odd one in Asia and an African country other than South Africa

Pompeyboyz

This was a problem in FM07 that I would have liked to have hoped had been fixed for this one.

http://community.sigames.com/eve/for...2192017713/p/1

This was a thread in which I ran countless runs of holiday games.

Can someone at SI say if the Hosts in international touremants is hardcoded or give an explanaiotn of how they are selected.

nick...

Now that you mention it, I don't think I have (I have seen the Confederations Cup in Hong Kong though).

FIFA don't like joint hosts any more, wich countries in asia would be capable of hosting it?

China could, and Australia are asian now. Who else would be able to host it without major investment?

I would like to see in future installments, countries who are not quite meeting requirements, to invest in their stadia (a bonus for the clubs in that country too, as they may not have to pay full price for the expansions) if they were granted the world cup.

I would love to see who was bidding for it beforehand and some brief details of the bid (essensially which stadiums would be used, and if there would be any work done on those to bring them up to standard, perhaps a new national stadium would be built, etc).

I'd imagine if this happened, we'd see a lot more variety of hosts, as countries who aren't able to at present, but have aspirations, would be able to host (for example there are many asian or middle eastern countries with comparable footballing structure to South Africa prior to their world cup bid.

BenArsenal

Japan or South Korea could probably hold a WC on their own now, since they have plenty of stadiums left over from 2002. I think they had 8 or 10 per country.

And the Middle East is developing fast too. The UAE or Qatar could possibly have the infrastructure to host a World Cup in the not too distant future.

Lloydey

In any event, FIFA has scrapped its rotation policy. So in the absence of the emergence of any Asian nations with sufficient infrastructure etc to host the world cup, most of them will probably be hosted in S America or Europe with the odd one in Asia and Africa.

Australia hosting the world cup, not likely

MadWoodster

Nick considering the Confederations Cup is meant to be hosted in the same country as the next World Cup, this only shows up another failing. I like your ideas of countries investing in stadia with a view to hosting the world cup.
Lloydey while the rotation policy was scrapped they did agree to extedn from one to two the number of world cups a continent had to forgo before it could have another one. For example in 2018 neither Africa or South America can bid as they have 2010 and 2014 respectively. This means that instead of the World Cup alternating between Europe and South America, every 3rd world cup syhould be held by one of the other 4 continents. In my holdiay game which was for over 100 years (game time obviously) it was for the most part just alternating between Europe and South America