The whole world is waiting for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, the 2022 event in Qatar will offer a lot of firsts for the world's biggest football tournament. There's a new location with new stadiums, not to mention an unknown location on the calendar. During the build-up to 2022, Qatar has spent billions of dollars to build some of the most environmentally friendly and architecturally advanced sports facilities, at a huge economic cost. And infrastructure development and investment to rapidly expand its football capacity.
It is to be played in a shortened time frame of around 28 days, with the final taking place on 18 December 2022, which is also Qatar's national day. The Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy (SC) is the main body responsible for overseeing and implementing the global tournament. Five bidders, including Qatar, Australia, South Korea, Japan and the US, submitted bids for the highly prized hosting rights. On 1 December 2010, FIFA announced that Qatar would host the 2022 FIFA World Cup after FIFA's executive committee voted in a vote in Zurich.
The first World Cup to be held in the Middle East
This is only the second World Cup in Asia, joining the 2002 event in South Korea and Japan, and the first in the Middle East.
Among the continents, Europe has hosted the most World Cups in history with 11. South America has hosted five, North America three and Africa one.
Details of the stadium where the matches will be played
Doha – Khalifa International Stadium | Capacity: 40,000 seats | Status: Redesigned for the tournament and reopened in 2017
Educational City Stadium | Capacity: 40,000 seats | Status: Inaugurated in 2020
Al RayBan Stadium (Ahmed bin Ali Stadium) | Capacity: 40,000 seats | Status: Inaugurated in 2020
Lugsail Stadium | Capacity: 80,000 seats | Status: under construction
Al Thumama Stadium | Capacity: 40,000 seats | Status: Inaugurated in 2021
Al Khor – Al Bayt Stadium | Capacity: 60,000 seats | Status: Inaugurated in 2020
Al Sarah - Al Janoub Stadium | Capacity: 40,000 seats | Status: Inaugurated in 2019
RAS Abu About the stadium | Capacity: 40,000 seats | Status: under construction
The most expensive World Cup in history
Qatar is reportedly spending over $200 billion on infrastructure, including stadium construction, for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. In comparison, the 2018 FIFA World Cup reportedly cost Russia between $10 billion and $15 billion, making Qatar the most expensive World Cup to date.
All Qatar World Cup stadiums within one hour of each other
Players will not have to travel far from place to place for the 2022 World Cup.
All eight Qatar World Cup stadiums are within an hour's drive of each other. While this is convenient, it comes from the fact that Qatar is smaller than all US states except Delaware and Rhode Island.
DOHA: The Qatar Football Association (CFA) has confirmed friendlies against Canada and Chile in September.
The two matches will be part of a series of international friendlies that Qatar will line up in preparation for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in November and December.
In total, the Qatar national team will play three matches in September. Asian champions Qatar will face Canada on September 23 and Chile on September 27 in Austria.
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