World Cup 5

Process
This was the Third World Cup with the Official Process. No bid from the Middle East region was accepted as Egypt and Saudi Arabia the most recent to host. Since the Sixth World Cup would not follow the population requirements, this was a key target for nations that do fit the requirements.

Original Bidding
Main city is first.
 * USA NA (New York, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Washington, Boston, San Francisco, Miami)
 * Mexico NA (Mexico City, Guadalajara, Tijuana, Monterrey, Ciudad Juarez, Puebla, Merida, Leon)
 * Colombia-Venezuela SA (Bogota, Caracas, Medellin, Maracaibo, Barranqiulla, Cali, Valencia, Cartagena)
 * Brazil SA (Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paolo, Brasilia, Porto Alegre, Belo Horizonte, Fortaleza, Salvador, Recife)
 * Nigeria AN (Lagos, Ibadan, Abuja, Kano, Benin City, Port Harcourt, Kaduna, Zaria)
 * South Africa AS (Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pretoria, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Bloemfontein, Rustenburg, Polokwane)
 * DRC-Angola AS (Kinshasa, Luanda, Huambo, Lubumbashi, Mbuji-Mayi, Cabinda, Kananga, Kisangani)
 * Germany-Netherlands EW (Essen, Amsterdam, Berlin, Rotterdam, Bonn, The Hague, Hamburg, Munich)
 * France-Spain EW (Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Marseille, Lyon, Valencia, Seville, Nice)
 * England-Ireland EW (London, Dublin, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Cork, Bradford, Sheffield)
 * Turkey EE (Istanbul, Ankara, Bursa, Izmir, Adana, Konya, Gaziantep, Mersin)
 * Russia EE (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Omsk, Kazan, Samara)
 * Pakistan CA (Pakistan, Lahore, Islamabad, Hyerabad, Faisalabad, Multan, Pashawar, Rawalpindi)
 * Iran CA (Tehran, Isfahan, Mashhad, Tabriz, Shiraz, Qom, Karaj, Ahvaz)
 * China SC (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Wuhan, Xi'an)
 * Indonesia SC (Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung, Yogyakarta, Medan, Semarang, Palembang, Makassar)
 * Bangladesh-Myanmar SC (Dhaka, Yangon, Chittagong, Mandalay, Khulna, Naypyidaw, Rajshahi, Barisal)
 * Malaysia-Vietnam SC (Kuala Lumpur, Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Haiphong, Penang, Johor Bahru, Can Tho, Ipoh)
 * South Korea OE (Seoul, Incheon, Busan, Gwangju, Daegu, Daejeon, Ulsan, Changwon)
 * Philippines-Taiwan OE (Manila, Taipei, Cebu City, Taichung, Quezon City, Tainan, Kaohsiung, Davao City)

Short List

 * USA
 * Brazil
 * Nigeria
 * South Africa
 * Germany-Netherlands
 * Russia
 * Pakistan
 * China
 * South Korea