World cup for Leeds? Back the bid
6th August 2009
Leeds City Council is leading a bid group from the Leeds City Region with the ambition of bringing the 2018 World Cup tournament to the region.
The region’s sporting heritage is well known through the top 4 football clubs: Leeds United, Barnsley, Huddersfield Town and Bradford City. But the region also hosts top class events in other sports like Cricket and Rugby at Headingley, golf tournaments, tennis and athletics.
If Leeds is successful in its Applicant Host City bid the games would be played at Leeds United’s Elland Road Stadium and with improvements to the Stadium it will be capable of hosting not only group and ‘round-of-16-matches’, but also a quarter final.
The first phase of the bid process is about the City Region bid but, even more importantly, we need public support for the bid, and this is where you can help...
Step One – Back the Bid Leeds
Vote now at www.backthebidleeds.com
Step Two – Spread the Word
Add – the following signature to your emails
Upload – the attached link to your website
Join - Our Twitter stream @backthebidleeds, use the hashtag on your Tweets #backthebidleeds
- The World Cup 2018 Facebook site and talk about Leeds!
Step Three – Join in
Community Groups and individuals
Do something to show your support. Play a game, run a race, climb a mountain, bake a cake, knit a scarf….it doesn’t matter what you do just do it for Back The Bid Leeds and help us score the World Cup 2018
We want to demonstrate to the FA that the whole of Leeds City Region is Backing the Bid and we want your photographs, videos, pictures and poems to show what you are doing to Back the Bid.
Ideas include:
- Helping us to knit the world’s largest scarf. Download the pattern at www.backthebidleeds.com and get knitting.
- Play football? Why not change the name of your team to back the bid Leeds and we will send you a new football strip to wear and your photos
