When will the next Football World Cup start?

Africa: South Africa.

XIX FIFA World Cup - Official name 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa

It will be held in 10 cities in South Africa in June 2010 and will be the first World Cup to be held in Africa. A total of 32 teams from all over the world will compete in the tournament, with a total of 64 matches to determine the champions, with the exception of host country South Africa, all teams competing for a place in the final week through qualifiers.

Since the FIFA stipulates that the World Cup will be hosted by African countries, the five countries that are vying for the right to host the 2010 World Cup are all African countries, namely on May 8, 2004, Tunisia announced that it would give up its bid to host the World Cup because it was impossible to co-host the World Cup with Libya. On 15 May 2004, at the FIFA Executive Committee meeting in Zurich, Switzerland, South Africa won the 2010 World Cup by a vote of 14 to 10 to become the 16th World Cup host country, while Egypt did not receive any votes. Libya was disqualified because it only wanted to co-host the World Cup with Tunisia and would not host it alone, and Libya also stated that it would not allow Israel to participate in the World Cup.

At the FIFA Executive Board meeting, the allocation of quotas for each continent for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa was finalized. In the allocation of Asian places, which is the most important issue for Chinese teams, they will eventually get a place in all 32 places, and the fifth place will compete with teams from Oceania to qualify for the play-offs.

The FIFA Executive Board met for two days to discuss the allocation of quota places for each continent for the 2010 World Cup. The final quota allocated is: the host South Africa, 13 seats in Europe, 5 places in Africa, Asia, Oceania and Asia's 5th play-offs, South American seats, North and Central American seats, and 4th and 5th South American play-offs.

The 2010 World Cup Finals will take place from 11 June to 11 July 2010.

In 2004, FIFA began to invite broadcasters around the world to bid for the broadcast rights of the 2010 and 2014 World Cups. However, FIFA has made a new provision in the tender that if a toll channel wins the right to broadcast the World Cup, 22 of the matches (including the opening match, 14 group matches, two each of the round of 16, quarter-finals and semi-finals and the championship match) must be broadcast on the free-of-charge channel**. However, the toll ** channel can still determine the number of live broadcasts of the group competition, the top 16 and the top 8.