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England's 2018 World Cup bid stadia selected
Published: 2009-12-16 15:56:09
St James' Park in Newcastle will be part of England's 2018 World Cup bid after being named as a candidate host alongside 11 other cities on Wednesday. (Sourced from BBC.)
The other stadia will be Sunderland's Stadium of Light, Birmingham's Villa Park, the new Nottingham Forest stadium, Elland Road in Leeds, Sheffield's Hillsborough stadium, , the new Ashton Vale stadium in Bristol, Plymouth's Home Park, Milton Keynes and Old Trafford and the City of Manchester Stadium.
Applications from Derby, Hull and Leicester were rejected.
London will propose four stadia to Fifa and Manchester two, with world football's governing body making its final choice of venues in late 2010.
The Liverpool bid suffered a blow on the deadline day for applications when the government backed a decision to refuse planning permission for Everton's plans for a new stadium at Kirkby.
However, Anfield - or a new Anfield, should it be far enough along the planning and building process - will figure in England's bid "not because it is an iconic football city, but because it has a stadium we feel will strengthen the bid," said Football League and selection panel chairman Lord Mawhinney.
Three stadia will be forwarded from London, Wembley Stadium, Arsenal's Emirates Stadium and either the Olympic Stadium or Tottenham's yet-to-be-built new ground.
