The Bristol 2018 World Cup bid team have had a prime opportunity to test their plans against the strict Fifa requirements for a World Cup host city – and came out of it feeling confident.

Stephen Wray, partnerships director for Bristol City Council led a group from Bristol to Manchester for a meeting with the England 2018 World Cup bid team, and delegates from the 14 other cities vying for a role in the 2018 tournament.

Mr Wray together with Guy Price, development adviser for Bristol City football club and Ruth Wilmshurst, press officer for the council, spent a long day networking, promoting and being briefed on the detail of England's 2018 World Cup bid.

"There was a lot more technical information," Mr Wray told the Evening Post.

"We are learning a lot more and while it is onerous, there is nothing that has caught us out that we think we can't meet."

Part of the reason for this is the meticulous preparation of Mr Price and the stadium development director Ian Cawley, who have been pouring over the detail of the Fifa requirements to ensure the proposed new stadium, which is being funded by Bristol City chairman Steve Lansdown and the sale of the club's old stadium Ashton Gate, has the potential to be used should Bristol be selected as a host city.

The stadium was submitted for planning permission to the council's planning department on Monday and a decision is expected in October.

Mr Cawley said: "The only exception in terms of requirements is the seating. The extra 10,000 seats required to hit the 40,000 Fifa require will be added at the time for the duration of the tournament if Bristol and England are successful. "

Mr Wray added: "Being able to design in the additional capacity for media and create space for VIPs around the site, make the changing rooms the right size etc – we are at a bit of an advantage. As we are still planning, we can do all this."

Concerns were raised this week with the revelation of a £30million hole in the council's finances. But Mr Wray assured supporters of the city's bid that this should not affect Bristol's campaign to be part of an event that the council estimate could bring in up to £100 million in revenue. He said: "Part of the inspection visit (by the England bid team on July 13) will be to give the host city anticipated costs of hosting the events."

The German government reported after the 2006 World Cup that the tournament had earned the country's tourism industry 300 million euros in revenue, added two billion euros to retail sales and yielded 50,000 extra jobs.

Ticket sales generated a further 40 million euros, according to the report.

The Football Association's promotional video for the England 2018 bid cites the Germans as selling 3.5million sausages and 3.5million litres of beer to the travelling fans at the tournament and the involvement of 15,000 volunteers and 16,440 stewards across the venues.

The new stadium is directly linked to the sale of Ashton Gate. Further public consultation took place on Monday and last night with local residents in the immediate vicinity of the development who were invited by letter.

Mr Cawley said: "It was a positive meeting and we came away with a long list of things to address.

"There have been some stadiums built in the last five years but they will require a lot of work to bring up to Fifa standards," he said.

"Hopefully, this new stadium will become the blue print for others elsewhere."