<Tr> <Th> Venue (s) </Th> <Td> 12 (in 11 host cities) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> ← 2014 2022 → </Td> </Tr> <P> The 2018 FIFA World Cup will be the 21st FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA . It is scheduled to take place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018, after the country was awarded the hosting rights on 2 December 2010 . </P> <P> This will be the first World Cup held in Europe since the 2006 tournament in Germany, and the first ever to be held in Eastern Europe . All of the stadium venues are in European Russia, to keep travel time manageable . </P>

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