The Football Association is on the brink of voting for the United States, Canada and Mexico to host the 2026 World Cup. The so-called ‘United’ bid is also expecting the rest of the home nations to follow suit in Wednesday’s ballot to decide where the expanded tournament would be staged.

The FA has not made a final decision over whether to cast its vote for the US-led bid or that of Morocco ahead of a presentation by both bid teams at a meeting of Uefa members on Tuesday morning.

But the Daily Telegraph has learnt that, barring a dramatic development, English football’s governing body is all but certain to support the United bid at Fifa’s annual congress in Moscow.

That follows the publication this month of the evaluation report of each bid in which inspectors awarded the North American bid a significantly higher score than that of Morocco, which narrowly avoided elimination on technical grounds.

Wednesday’s vote is the first for a World Cup host since England were humiliated in the race for this summer’s tournament despite boasting the strongest technical bid.