World Cup 6

Format
This was the first world cup under the official procedure that the population requirements did not need to be met. No bid from North America was accepted as USA would host World Cup 5.

Original Bidders

 * Australia OE (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Darwin, Hobart)
 * Philippines OE (Manila, Cebu City, Davao City, Quezon City, Caloocan, Antipolo, Taguig, Zamboanga City)
 * Taiwan OE (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Taichung, Tainan, Hsinchu, Keelung, Zhongli, Taoyuan)
 * Vietnam SC (Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Haiphong, Can Tho, Da Nang, Bien Hoa, Hue, Vinh)
 * Malaysia SC (Kuala Lumpur, Johor Bahru, Penang, Ipoh, Shah Alam, Kuching, Petaling Jaya, Malacca City)
 * Bangladesh SC (Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna, Gazipur, Rajshahi, Barisal, Sylhet, Comilla)
 * Afghanistan CA (Kabul, Kandahar, Herat, Kunduz, Taloqan, Jalabad, Mazar-i-Sharif, Charikar)
 * Kazakhstan CA (Almaty, Astana, Taraz, Karagandy, Shymkent, Pavlodar, Oral, Semey)
 * Iraq ME (Baghdad, Mosul, Erbil, Basra, Kirkuk, Fallujah, Najaf, Karbala)
 * Yemen ME (Sana'a, Ta'izz, Aden, Ibb, Al Hudaydah, Dhamar, Al Mukalla, Sayyan)
 * Ukraine EE (Kiev, Odessa, Kharkiv, Dnipropetovsk, Donetsk, Lviv, Zaporizhia, Mariupol)
 * Italy EE (Rome, Milan, Naples, Turin, Florence, Palmeiro, Genoa, Bologna)
 * Greece EE (Athens, Patras, Thessaloniki, Rhodes, Volos, Heraklion, Ioannina, Larissa)
 * Netherlands EW (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, Tilburg, Eindhoven, Breda, Almere)
 * Spain EW (Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Zaragoza, Valencia, Murcia, Malaga, Cordoba)
 * France EW (Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Nice, Lille, Toulouse, Montpellier, Bordeaux)
 * England EW (London, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Sheffield, Bradford, Bristol, Coventry)
 * Argentina SA (Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Rosario, Mendoza, Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz, La Plata, Salta, San Juan)
 * Venezuela SA (Caracas, Macaibo, Valencia, Maracay, Barquisimeto, Barcelona, Ciudad Bolivar, Merida)
 * Ecuador SA (Quito, Guayaquil, Santo Domingo, Machala, Cuenca, Duran, Loja, Manta)
 * DRC AS (Kinshasa, Lubumbashi, Mbuji-Mayi, Kananga, Kisangani, Kolwezi, Goma, Tshikapa)
 * Mozambique AS (Maputo, Nampula, Beira, Matola, Nacala, Quelimane, Chimoio, Tete)
 * Cameroon AN (Yaounde, Douala, Bamenda, Garoua, Buea, Kumba, Bafoussam, Maroua)
 * Ghana AN (Accra, Kumasi, Tamale, Sunyani, Cape Coast, Sekondi-Takoradi, Teshie, Tema)

Short List

 * Australia
 * Vietnam
 * Kazakhstan
 * Iraq
 * Italy
 * Spain
 * Argentina
 * DRC
 * Ghana

Voting
By just one point, Italy won.