Michel D'Hooghe, FIFA's medical officer, has insisted there will be no revote on the controversial decision to award Qatar the 2022 World Cup finals.

"There will be absolutely no revote," D'Hooghe told the London Evening Standard newspaper on Tuesday, a day after Japan said it was ready to step in if FIFA stripped Qatar of staging the 2022 World Cup.

D'Hooghe was one of the FIFA executive committee members who in 2010 awarded the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 edition to Qatar.

Both decisions caused uproar and led to widespread allegations regarding the bidding process.

The move to give the World Cup to Qatar, a country with little soccer history, provoked widespread condemnation particularly over health concerns for leading players forced to play in the desert nation's stifling summer heat.