( CNN ) -- The International Olympic Committee announced Wednesday that Istanbul , Tokyo and Madrid have made it on to the short list of cities bidding to host the 2020 Olympic Games . Baku and Doha were rejected for the second time in a row after failing to make the 2016 games . `` The executive board has decided that the following cities can continue to the next phase and become candidates for 2020 . In the order of drawing lots : Istanbul , Tokyo , and Madrid , '' said IOC spokesman Mark Adams . The three remaining candidate cities will enter into Phase 2 of the selection period . Files from the cities will be submitted to the IOC by January 7 , 2013 . Following an official visit by the IOC Evaluation Commission between February and April of 2013 , a report will be made to the 2020 IOC Evaluation Commission and candidate cities will brief IOC members . The election of the host city of the XXXII Olympic Summer Games will take place on September 7 , 2013 , at the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires . In culling the field from five to three cities , the IOC executive board relied `` on application files , the report of a working group of experts which is formed to assess the application forms of each city , the city 's compliance with elements like the World Anti-Doping Code , and other criteria , '' said Adams . Doha , the capital of the Gulf state of Qatar , had proposed changing the games to October 2-18 , to mitigate the extreme temperatures athletes would have to experience during the usual July-August summer games . Based on a 10-year average , Doha temperatures in October range from 30 to 36 degrees Celsius ( 86 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit ) . The working group also decided against Baku , the capital city of Azerbaijan , for its infrastructural limitations . The `` games planning and experience , '' were `` not sufficiently developed at this stage , '' according to the report . Of the five candidate cities , only Tokyo has hosted the Olympics before , in the XVIII Olympiad held in the summer of 1964 .
Seoul , Tokyo and Osaka made the cut . Qatar in Qatar and Baku in Azerbaijan did not . Selection of host city will take place on September 7 , 2018 .