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What you need to know about the 2022 World Cup

⚽ Competition: Qatar 2022 Soccer World Cup .
🇶🇦  Place: Qatar.
📅 Date: November 21, 2012 to December 18, 2022.
👥 Number of participating teams : 32.
🏆 Defending champions: France.

A football world championship alone is reason enough for us to create a website where you can get all the important information about the tournament. But since the final round in Qatar is undoubtedly a World Cup out of the ordinary, we are particularly keen to provide you with the proper information.

Where will the 2022 World Cup take place and why?

As mentioned on several occasions, Qatar is to host the 2022 World Cup. This was determined in a vote by the FIFA Executive Committee in Zurich in December 2010. Two years earlier, FIFA had decided to award the World Cups of 2018 and 2022 in pairs. For 2018 there was a condition that it take place in Europe. By 2022 it was decided that the tournament could not be held in South America.

11 applications from 13 countries were received for both finals. As is well known, Russia and Qatar won the tender: the accusation of corruption was immediately raised, which to this day has not been proven (but not invalidated either).

However, FIFA reacted and changed the procedure for awarding the World Cup: until now, only the Executive Committee voted, but now the FIFA General Assembly chooses. It was also determined that there should be no more double assignments.

Fans in Latin America will be able to enjoy most of the matches outside of regular office hours, as two of the four times set for the prediction of group stages are at night and the quarterfinals will be at 12 am and 4 pm Central time. Argentina (GMT -3).

Why is the 2022 World Cup held in winter?

The 2022 World Cup was originally going to be held in the summer like any other final round. Qatar has unveiled plans for giant cooling systems to cool 2022 World Cup stadiums and training pitches from 40+ degrees outside temperature to 20 to 25 degrees.

Although the plans were impressive, they quickly aroused opposition on ecological grounds. It was also feared that the heat could become a serious health problem for the millions of visitors who would travel from one place to another.

Therefore, the 2022 Football World Championship was moved from late autumn to early winter 2022. The opening game will take place on November 21, 2022. The knockout phase begins with the round of 16 on December 3, 2022. 2022. The 2022 World Cup quarterfinals will take place on December 9 and 10. The 2022 World Cup final is scheduled for December 18. Spanning 28 days, the 2022 World Cup will also be the shortest final round since 1978 (25 days).

How many teams will participate in the 2022 World Cup?

The answer is: 32 teams. After FIFA decided to increase the number of participants from 32 to 48 teams for the 2026 World Cup in Canada, Mexico and the USA, it was long considered whether the 2022 World Cup in Qatar should also be held with 48 equipment.

However, in May 2019, FIFA confirmed that the final round in 2022 would definitely be played with 32 teams. Which of the 32 teams could win?

Qatar 2022 World Cup Stadiums

The 2022 World Cup in Qatar will be played in just eight different stadiums. The FIFA specs are actually at least twelve stadiums in the app, but the fact that most of the stadiums had to be built drew huge criticism. That is why FIFA has reduced it to eight locations.

Before the World Cup was awarded to Qatar in 2010, there was only the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha and the al-Rayyan Stadium in al-Rayyan (also called ay-Rayyan). The other six arenas were built especially for the 2022 finals, with repeated criticism of working conditions and even regular deaths.

The venues of the final phase in Qatar

• Lusail – Iconic Lusail Stadium (80,000 seats).
• al-Khaur – al-Bayt Stadium (60,000 seats).
• al-Rayyan – Khalifa International Stadium (45,416 seats).
• al-Rayyan – Education City Stadium (40,000 seats).
• al-Rayyan – Ahmed bin Ali Stadium (40,000 seats).
• Doha – Stadium 974 (40,000 seats).
• Doha – al-Thumama Stadium (40,000 seats).
• al-Wakra – al-Janoub Stadium (40,000 seats).

Information on the qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup

Like the 2014 and 2018 World Cups, the 2022 tournament in Qatar will be played by 32 teams. Each continental association has as many starting places available as in previous tournaments. Qatar, as hosts, is the only team that qualifies automatically.

In the South American qualifiers, CONMEBOL has 4 direct places and 1 place for the repechage. The decision of the FIFA Executive Committee responds to the need to maintain the distribution of places by confederation. The 10 teams will have round robin matches in two rounds, with home and away matches (home and away), which will take place between October 2020 and March 2022. The betting odds for the CONMEBOL World Cup qualifiers can be found here

The European classification has 13 places for its teams in the World Cup, North and Central America have 3.5 places, the African continent has 5 places, Asia and Australia have 4.5 places and Oceania has just 0.5.

More information about the CONMEBOL qualifiers for Qatar 2022 .