Blatter told France's L'Equipe newspaper that controversial bid winners Qatar may jointly host the World Cup with neighbouring countries in the same way Australia had planned to do with New Zealand.

"Australia, in its candidacy bid, proposed to give several matches to New Zealand," Blatter told France's leading daily sports newspaper. 

"I think it could be the same in Qatar and that some matches could take place in nearby countries."

But today the FFA denied any Kiwi involvement in their official bid with all the games to be played in Australia, as spelt out in the official bid book.

“Australia’s bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup at no stage included holding games in New Zealand," said an FFA spokesman today.

“The Bid proposal included in the Bid Book submitted to FIFA clearly centred on holding the event in 12 stadiums in ten host cities - all of them in Australia.

“There was a brief discussion about New Zealand when the bid was first conceived two years ago but that option was quickly dismissed.” 

But Blatter insisted FIFA was right to award Qatar the World Cup because he said  football needs to expand from its traditional strongholds. 

"With Qatar, we are opening football to a new world and a new culture," Blatter said.  "The Arab world, which has tried several times - with Morocco or Egypt for example - to host the World Cup, could legitimately lay claim to hosting this."

Qatar also beat Japan, United States, and South Korea to win and plans to spend huge sums to ensure a state-of-the art cooling system in stadiums and training grounds to combat desert heat.

Ruled by the Al Thani family, the tiny Gulf nation has committed $US42.9 billion ($NZ56.36 billion) for infrastructure upgrades and $US4b to build nine stadiums and renovate three others. All the stadiums plan to keep temperatures at about 27degC.

But Blatter denied they had chosen Qatar for financial reasons.

"If we had wanted to make money, we would have gone to the United States," Blatter added.

"You must not forget that they  have been making efforts for a while and have already hosted FIFA competitions like the under-20 World Cup."