IOC President Jacques Rogge. The IOC declared sextet cities will be thoughtful for the 2020 Games. Photograph: Chris Mcgrath/Getty Images

The International athletics Committee has addicted Baku, top of Azerbaijan, will contend against fivesome another cities to patron the 2020 Games.

Azerbaijan's domestic athletics NGO said yesterday it would effort against Doha, Istanbul, Madrid, leaders and Tokyo, who had already declared their candidacies.

National athletics committees had until weekday to inform the IOC that a municipality within their powerfulness was fascinated in applying.

Baku's covering has today been legal by the IOC, which addicted terminal hebdomad it would be selection to initiate the games in port in autumn, to refrain the pure season heat.

The sextet individual cities will today travel to form digit of the IOC's two-step procedure, which will advance to the election of the 2020 patron municipality in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 7 September, 2013.

The 2012 Games will be unreal in author patch metropolis de Janeiro has already been addicted as patron for 2016.