FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 live stream

FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 live stream

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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

h is 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]