The World Cup is a numbers game. Bums on seats, television audiences, marketing budgets, investment, community initiatives, carbon footprints and match stats.

So here are some of the numbers from Bristol's 2018 World Cup bid:

100m – Amount of investment in pounds Bristol City Council believes host city status can bring.

70m – Amount in pounds to be invested in the Greater Bristol Bus Network by 2011.

17m – Amount in pounds the city's Playing Pitch and Green Spaces Strategy will invest in sports playing fields and changing room accommodation over the next 20 years.

9m – The number of visitors to Bristol each year.

2m – Amount in pounds of charitable donations channelled into community projects by Quartet, Bristol's community foundation, one of the largest in the country.

300,000 – Number of people who visited a recent Banksy exhibition.

250,000 – Number of people in the city centre across the annual Harbour Festival weekend.

100,000 – Number of people in one day attending the annual St Paul's Carnival.

80,000 – Number of people catered for at the Bristol half marathon.

76,000 – Number of people carried by ferries in Bristol annually.

42,000 – Capacity of the proposed Bristol 2018 World Cup stadium.

30,000 – Number of students resident in Bristol during term-time.

7,000 – Number of people who have backed Bristol's bid on Facebook, making it the best-supported prospective host venue for England 2018 on the internet.

4,000 – Number of square feet in the proposed stadium for the world's press to promote the West Country.

3,000 – The number of football teams in the Bristol area.

80 – The number of kilometres of duct and dark fibre network controlled by Bristol City Council, carrying potentially limitless bandwidth to the parks and open spaces of Bristol for big screens.

73 – The number of different nationalities in Bristol.

40 – Percentage reduction in violent crime and anti-social behaviour in Bristol since the 2007 award-winning nightsafe marshall scheme.

36 – The percentage of waste recycled in Bristol – the best performing English city.

31 – The number of days Bristol would host a 'community festival' if selected as a 2018 host venue.

24 – Number of hours a day buses shuttle visitors to and from Bristol international airport at present and to/from Fan Fests and big screen sites during the 2018 tournament.

9 – Number of years businesses in the West Country would have in the international spotlight during the build-up to the 2018 World Cup.

8 – Number of years Bristol's 2018 ambassador – Bristol Rovers, Spurs and England defender Gary Mabbutt – has been working on the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

7 – The number of active partnerships Bristol has with major cities across the world, including previous European Championship and World Cup host cities Porto, Hannover and Bordeaux.

6 – Bristol's rank in England's list of largest cities.

5 – Potential number of World Cup matches to be staged in the city.

4 – Number of World Cup teams which could be based in Bath and Bristol for the duration of the tournament in the area's first-class hotels.

3 – Number of months until the England 2018 World Cup bid team decide which cities will be part of their bid to FIFA.

2 – The number of County Football Associations working on the development of the sport in and around Bristol.

1 – The number of chances of bringing the World Cup to Bristol in the next 50 years.