Currently, there is little opposition to the plans to give the tournament to the three countries.

Morocco are the only other country who have mooted a potential bid for 2026, but may reconsider in the face of the joint effort which is already the overwhelming favourite.

The North American bid, supported by the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF), has been given the public backing of the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC).

OFC President David Chung, who sits on the FIFA Council, has already announced his support for the idea to grant the three countries the hosting rights in a "non-competitive window".

It would see FIFA fast-track the process to give the US, Canada and Mexico the 2026 edition of the event, providing they all satisfy the technical bid requirements by March 31, 2018.

Should they do so, which would seem likely judging by the wealth of footballing facilities across the three countries, they would be given the event without competing against any other candidates.

The three nations hope to be officially awarded the tournament at FIFA's Congress in Moscow next year.

The motion is on the agenda of this week's FIFA Congress, due to take place at the Bahrain International Exhibition and Convention Centre on Thursday (May 11), but it is one of the key items which will be discussed at tomorrow's Council meeting.

Although the ultimate decision rests with the 211-strong membership of FIFA, they are likely to rubber-stamp the recommendation the Council make tomorrow.

As part of the bid, the US would stage 60 matches - including every game from the quarter-finals onwards - while Canada and Mexico would each host 10.

The 2026 tournament will be the largest-ever edition of the World Cup after the FIFA Council agreed to expand the competition by 16 teams under plans spearheaded by President Gianni Infantino.

FIFA usually decides World Cup host cities six years before the event, meaning a vote on 2026 would not ordinarily be staged until 2020.

They have already gone against this, however, when they awarded both the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar respectively in one go in 2010.

FIFA will also consider changes to the World Cup rotation policy at the Council meeting, which could provide a boost to China's hopes of staging the 2030 event.

Under current rules, confederations must wait until two editions after they last hosted the World Cup to bid again. 

The tournament cannot be staged in the same region more than once every 12 years.

But FIFA's Council will debate the possibility of amending this to ensure they have the power to go against the ruling "if circumstances so require".

"If we can bring football to where there is a huge potential for growth, like China, why not?," Mariano V Araneta of The Philippines, who was elected as an Asian Football Confederation representative on the FIFA Council at today's Congress, told insidethegames.

"We are talking about so many millions of people there and they are spending a lot of money on football.

"We have shown that Asia can host FIFA tournaments so why not the World Cup again in Asia?"

The World Cup rotation policy is one of several intriguing items on the Council meeting agenda, with the ruling body also proposing that the Bureau, comprised of the President and the six heads of the confederations, be granted further power.

In a similar power-grab to the one orchestrated by Infantino which passed at last year's Congress in Mexico City, which controversially gave the Council the ability to hire and fire heads of its various Independent Committees, it is suggested that the "competences of the Bureau should be partially expanded to include certain non-urgent matters".

The Council will also discuss "election or dismissal of members of the judicial bodies, the Audit and Compliance Committee, and the Governance Committee", as well as plans to scrap Local Organising Committees for World Cups.