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The 2022 FIFA World Cup is the 22nd FIFA World Cup, an association football tournament contested by the men's national teams of FIFA's member associations. It will take place in Qatar from 20 November to 18 December 2022. This is the first World Cup to be held in the Arab world, and the second World Cup was held entirely in Asia after the 2002 tournament in South Korea and Japan.[a]
The tournament is featuring 32 participating teams, the last
to do so as the field will increase to 48 teams for the 2026 tournament.
Matches at the event will be played in eight venues across five cities. France
is the defending champion, having defeated Croatia 4–2 in the 2018 FIFA World
Cup final. Due to Qatar's intense summer heat, this World Cup is being held
during November and December, being the first tournament not held in May, June,
or July and to take place in the northern winter.[1] It is being played in a
reduced timeframe of 29 days. The opening match will be between Qatar and
Ecuador at Al Bayt Stadium, Al Khor. The final will be held on 18 December
2022, Qatar's National Day.
The choice to host the World Cup in Qatar has been the
source of major controversies. These include Qatar's abusive treatment of
migrant workers, poor human rights records, and persecution of LGBT people, among
others; hence, the event has been subject to allegations of sports washing.
Others have said Qatar's intense climate and lack of a strong football culture
is evidence of bribery for hosting rights and wider FIFA corruption, something
that the United States Department of Justice has also alleged.[2] Boycotts of
the event are planned by several countries, clubs, and individual players, and
former FIFA President Sepp Blatter has twice said that giving Qatar hosting
rights was a "mistake".[3][4]
Overview
The FIFA World Cup is a professional association football
tournament held between national football teams.[5] Organized by FIFA, the
tournament, held every four years, was first played in 1930 in Uruguay,[6] and
has been contested by 32-teams since the 1998 event.[6] The tournament is
contested with eight round-robin groups followed by a knockout round for 16
teams.[7] The defending champions are the French national football team, who
defeated Croatia 4–2 in the 2018 FIFA World Cup final.[8][9] The event is
scheduled to take place under a reduced length,[10] from 20 November to 18
December in Qatar.[11] Being held in Qatar, it is the first World Cup
tournament to be held in the Arab world.[12]
Schedule
Unlike previous FIFA World Cups, which are typically played
in June and July, the 2022 World Cup will be played in November and December to
avoid the intense Qatari summer heat.[13] As a result, the World Cup will be
unusually staged in the middle of the seasons of domestic football leagues,
which start in late July or August, including all of the major European
leagues, which have been obliged to incorporate extended breaks into their
domestic schedules to accommodate the World Cup. Major European competitions
have scheduled their respective competitions' group matches to be played before
the World Cup, in order to avoid playing group matches the following year.[14]
The match schedule was confirmed by FIFA in July 2020.[15]
The group stage was set to begin on 21 November, with four matches every day.
Later, the schedule was tweaked by moving the Qatar vs Ecuador game to 20
November, after Qatar successfully lobbied FIFA to allow their team to open the
tournament.[16][17] The final will be played on 18 December 2022 at the Lusail
Iconic Stadium.[18][15]
The matches for each group were allocated to the following
stadiums:[18]
Groups A, B, E, F: Al Bayt Stadium, Khalifa International
Stadium, Al Thumama Stadium, Ahmad bin Ali Stadium
Groups C, D, G, H: Lusail Iconic Stadium, Stadium 974,
Education City Stadium, Al Janoub Stadium
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