MOSCOW — Eleven Russian cities will host the 2018 World Cup, head of the local organizing committee (LOC) Vitaly Mutko said Friday following FIFA's executive board meeting in Zurich. “FIFA has made a decision to use 12 stadiums in 11 cities,” Russian Sports Minister Mutko told reporters without naming the two cities which did not make the list. Thirteen Russian cities - Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Samara, Saransk, Volgograd, Krasnodar, Rostov, Sochi and Yekaterinburg — had been competing for the right to stage the matches. — Reuters
