FIFA, global soccer’s governing body, published Monday the full 2026 World Cup bid books from the North American and Moroccan contenders. Both documents are hefty — North America’s is 530 pages; Morocco’s is 384 — and the bidding regulations are complex, too.
Here are the important things you need to know about what the North American bid book says about Philadelphia.
Timeline: The big vote will be held June 13 in Moscow, just before this summer’s World Cup kicks off. It’s expected that the 23 cities in the World Cup bid will be cut to 16 in June 2020.