Brian Mawhinney, chairman of the Host City selection panel, named 17 stadiums in 12 candidate cities and towns as potential venues should FIFA award the 2018 event to England at next December's vote.
The possible venues include Wembley Stadium and Arsenal's Emirates Stadium in London, with either Tottenham Hotspur's new White Hart Lane stadium or the 2012 Olympic Stadium to be added at a later date.
Mawhinney said matches could also be played at Sunderland (Stadium of Light), Birmingham (Villa Park), Manchester (Old Trafford and City of Manchester Stadium), Nottingham (new Nottingham Forest stadium), Leeds (Elland Road), Sheffield (Hillsborough), Newcastle/Gateshead (St James' Park), Bristol (new Ashton Vale stadium), Plymouth (Home Park), Liverpool (Anfield or new Anfield) and Milton Keynes (Stadium MK).
Bids from Hull, Derby and Leicester failed to make the list, while the selection panel also decided against using Everton's Goodison Park, Bramall Lane in Sheffield and Birmingham City's St Andrews ground.
"We have chosen the venues that will offer the lowest possible risk to FIFA," Mawhinney told reporters.
"In our view the present Anfield in Liverpool with some modifications and modernisation would be adequate.
"Liverpool have aspirations for a new stadium but their time frame does not coincide with ours. So we have put in both.
"Likewise, with Tottenham's new White Hart Lane ground and the Olympic Stadium. We have seen pictures of the new White Hart Lane stadium and it will be splendid but at the moment it is at the planning stage.
The cities named on Wednesday will be presented as part of England's final submission to soccer's world governing body FIFA on May 14.
"The Olympic Stadium debate is still going on and we are not in charge of that. There are those who think it should be an 80,000-seater stadium after 2012 catering for events that are commensurate for a stadium of that capacity," Mawhinney said.
"Others that it should be cut back to 25,000, but we don't get to make that decision."
