52 Venues Further information: 2018 fifa World Cup venues Russia proposed the following host cities: Kaliningrad, Kazan, Krasnodar, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Saint Petersburg, Samara, Saransk, Sochi, Volgograd, Yaroslavl, and Yekaterinburg. The final took place on 15 July at the. At an estimated cost of over.2 billion as of June 2018, 4 it is the most expensive World Cup in history, surpassing the cost of the 2014 fifa World Cup in Brazil. The stadium was commissioned in November 2017. Sochi, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod and Samara all hosted six matches, including one quarter-final match each, while the Otkrytiye Stadium in Moscow and Rostov-on-Don hosted five matches, including one round-of-16 match each. 186 On 22 December 2017, it was reported that fifa fired a doctor who had been investigating doping in Russian football. Archived from the original on Retrieved Riach, James. "World Cup 20ecision day live!". 211 The Russian Foreign Ministry denounced Boris Johnson &apos;s statements that compared the event to the 1936 Olympics held in Nazi Germany as "poisoned with venom of hate, unprofessionalism and boorishness" and "unacceptable and unworthy" parallel towards Russia, a "nation that lost millions of lives.
(yikes, being a former floristI probably shouldnt tell you that. Archived from the original on Retrieved "McDonald&apos;s looking ahead to 2018". 187 On fifa confirmed that the investigations concerning all Russian players named for the provisional squad of the fifa World Cup in Russia had been completed, with the result that insufficient evidence was found to assert an anti-doping rule violation. Players in the final squad may be replaced for serious injury up to 24 hours prior to kickoff of the team&apos;s first match and such replacements do not need to have been named in the preliminary squad. "What does Didier Deschamps want from his France team? The first piles were driven into the ground in September 2015. Archived from the original on Retrieved "Alfa-Bank unveiled as first-ever Regional Supporter for the fifa World Cup". Retrieved "Match report Group D Nigeria v Argentina" (PDF). 1 Prize money Prize money amounts were announced in October 2017. Moscow Saint Petersburg Sochi Luzhniki Stadium Otkritie Arena (Spartak Stadium) Krestovsky Stadium (Saint Petersburg Stadium) Fisht Olympic Stadium (Fisht Stadium) Capacity: 78,011 66 Capacity: 44,190 67 Capacity: 64,468 68 Capacity: 44,287 69 Volgograd Rostov-on-Don Volgograd Arena Rostov Arena Capacity: 43,713 70 Capacity: 43,472 71 Nizhny. Archived from the original on Retrieved "World Cup 2018 fixtures: full schedule, results and match dates".