The Port Adelaide Football Club is thrilled to launch its bid to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup* following recent reports the event is probably going to be up for grabs given all the issues at FIFA...

As a proud, long-established football club, we have the means and ability to bring about a truly spectacular display of the rest of the world’s game right in the heart of South Australia – Port Adelaide.

That’s right, Port Adelaide is the undisputed hub of activity in the only part of Australia not to be settled by British convicts.

In doing so, we’ll bring the heart of Port Adelaide - primarily consisting of a lighthouse, several open and long-defunct hotels, a blood bank, council chambers, two shopping centres and heritage-listed woolstores - to life.

We’re a friendly city with friendly people. Our local footy club in Port Adelaide is pretty popular and the ideal place to host such an event.

Read greater detail of our Port Adelaide 2022 bid below:

Stadium

Alberton Oval is the largest venue in Port Adelaide and well-equipped to host all games with its picturesque heritage grandstands and copious bar facilities around the ground - it’s got something for all 14,000 fans it is able to hold.

At 180m long and 130m wide, Alberton is actually an oval, but we think it would be a welcome change for international soccer to play with a little bit more space to run around.

We also envisage the goals will look something like this:

We anticipate using Alberton Oval for all 64 matches, including finals.

Training Facilities

The park adjacent to Alberton Oval covers an area of 1.56 acres and is perfect for hosting warm-ups and walkthrough training of all the competing nations.

We also have a quarter-hectare block available for use at the nearby Alberton Croquet Club.

Climate

A balmy 21 degrees is the average October temperature for Adelaide, making it perfect for any competing nation wanting to enjoy Australia in the tiny window of bliss between our dry and excruciatingly hot summers and wet and miserable winters.

Media Facilities

The Alberton Oval press box was constructed in November 1973 and seats eight journalists.

Up to two broadcast commentators can be housed in our TV media centre, which is located on the first floor of our western kiosk facility and from which a camera can be mounted on eight-year-old scaffolding.

Costs, Travel and Accommodation

We encourage use of the Outer Harbour line train to the facility from either the CBD or Port Adelaide and Outer Harbour themselves. As a low-trafficked Port in contemporary times, the World Cup will greatly aid in revitalising our hydro-transit avenues and anticipate a high volume of sea craft to use the facility.

While it cost around $3.68 billion to build stadia for Brazil 2014, we don’t need worry about doing that because we think Alberton is quite sufficient.

However anyone wishing to contribute towards the costs of housing all teams in the upstairs function centre of the Robert B. Quinn stand will be gladly welcomed.

We also envisage any overflow of athletes and support staff being billeted into the homes of local residents, an arrangement we’ve had decades of experience doing when blokes come down from the west coast to play for Ports in the footy.

Food and Drink

The Port Club is open from 8am most mornings until midnight on some nights. It comes equipped with a full restaurant and salad and veg bar and recently upgraded sports bar facilities.

We also have two kiosks and occasional sausage sizzles at games.

There’s also a great pizza shop up the road and a few really delicious Vietnamese roll joints around the place.

Marketing

All marketing will occur on social media. You can visit our bid page and add your support on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/portadelaidefc.

What about Port’s players?

Because the World Cup will be held in the break following Port Adelaide’s 2022 premiership triumph, we’ll get our players and officials to work as linesmen, food vendors and ticket sellers around the Oval throughout the course of the event.

Our coaches are also willing to help coordinate substitutions on the bench for all competing nations.

What will this do for the town of Port Adelaide?

Germany and France hosted World Cups, and look how popular they are...

We're also supporting Macclesfield...

...For their 2026 bid

It's time @FIFAcom gave the World Cup to a sensible bidder. Here is the Macclesfield bid for the 2026 World Cup. http://t.co/AT3tgBu9w3 — Macclesfield Town (@thesilkmen) June 2, 2015

*assuming that Qatar loses the event thanks to Sepp and his mates.