Brazil was selected, unchallenged, as 2014 host back on October 30, 2007.
The CBF then had to select its proposed host cities. FIFA approved 17.
The 17 are Belém, Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Campo Grande, Cuiabá, Curitiba, Florianópolis, Fortaleza, Goiânia, Manaus, Natal, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio Branco, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and São Paulo (The opening match will probably be in Brasilia or Sao Paulo with the final, of course, as in 1950, in Rio’s Maracana).


