The FIFA Council has approved the voting regulations for the 2026 World Cup, which includes an open ballot, president Gianni Infantino has confirmed.
The FIFA Congress will convene June 13 to vote on the host of football's showpiece event, with Morocco and a joint North American venture from the United States, Canada and Mexico the only bids in play.
Scrutiny over the 2010 vote that awarded the staging of this year's event in Russia and the 2022 tournament in Qatar led to the FIFA corruption scandal and, ultimately, the ousting of long-term president Sepp Blatter.
The ramifications of that episode are still being felt by football's world governing body, and in an attempt to make the process more transparent the bidding regulations, published in November 2017, stated that there will be an open vote.
Infantino confirmed that the FIFA Council has approved the decision, meaning the 207 national federations out of 211 eligible to vote, with the bidding nations excluded, will have their ballot published.
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