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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
he 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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