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England have withdrawn from the race to host the 2022 World Cup after the United States ended their bid to stage the 2018 tournament.

England will now focus entirely on their campaign for 2018, which will definitely be held in Europe.

This is because of Fifa rules that the competition cannot be held on the same continent on successive occasions.

England and Russia remain in the running for 2018 along with joint bids by Belgium/Holland and Spain/Portugal.

The United States had been the last non-European bidders remaining in the race for 2018 following Australia's withdrawal in June and remained in contention for both 2018 and 2022.

Chairman of the US committee, Sunil Gulati, said: "For some time we have been in conversations with Fifa and Uefa about the possibility of focusing only on the 2022 bidding process.