Football World Cup 2022

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2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar
2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar
Number of nations 32
venue QatarQatar Qatar
Opening game November 21, 2022
Endgame December 18, 2022
Games 64

The final round of the FIFA World Cup 2022 ( English 2022 FIFA World Cup ) is the 22nd edition of the most important tournament for men's football - national teams to be and should in Qatar will be played. In March 2015 it was finally decided that the tournament would take place for the first time towards the end of the year due to the heat in Qatar in the summer. The opening game is scheduled for November 21, 2022 at 1 p.m. local time in Al Khor in the 60,000-seat Al-Bayt Stadium , around 50 km north of the capital Doha , the final on December 18, 2022 (4th Advent) at 6 p.m. 00:00 local time. With a duration of 28 days, the final round will be the shortest since the 1978 World Cup with 25 days.

On May 22, 2019, it was announced that the FIFA Council had determined a field of 32 teams for the tournament, as previously, and not, as planned on March 15, 2019, for 48 teams.

Award

Qatar application logo

During its meeting in Tokyo on December 19, 2008, the FIFA Executive Committee decided to award the two World Cups in 2018 and 2022 at the same time. The deadline for member associations to express their interest in hosting ended on February 2, 2009. Eleven applications from 13 countries were received for the two tournaments. In accordance with the rotation procedure modified in 2007 , the continental association in which the penultimate World Cup took place ( South America with Brazil 2014 ) was excluded from the application for the 2022 tournament . Until the award, all non-European applicants for the 2018 World Cup withdrew and concentrated their applications on the 2022 tournament. The application from Indonesia was rejected by FIFA as the required documents and guarantees were not submitted. The Mexican Association withdrew its application on September 28, 2009 due to unclear funding.

FIFA announced the host of the 2022 World Cup on December 2, 2010 in Zurich. Qatar prevailed against competitors from the USA, South Korea, Japan and Australia.

In early May 2020, New York revelations revealed that the votes of three FIFA officials, including Ricardo Teixeira and Nicolás Leoz , had been bought to vote for Qatar. Without these three votes for Qatar, it would have been a 11:11 tie, which would have tipped the FIFA boss's vote. Since Sepp Blatter had voted for the USA as the host, the World Cup would have been awarded to the USA. Despite the evidence, it seems unlikely that the World Cup will be withdrawn from Qatar. In addition to financial losses for FIFA due to billions in compensation claims, which would be likely, the construction of the stadiums in Qatar is already too far advanced; the United States would also have little interest in filing a lawsuit due to the hosting of the 2026 World Cup . Former FIFA boss Sepp Blatter said in an ARD interview: “The World Cup will be played in Qatar.” According to whistleblower Bonita Mersiades , who was part of the Australian delegation in 2010, all nations should at least try before the award would have to buy votes.

Applicants 1 round 2nd round 3rd round 4th round comment
QatarQatar Qatar 11 10 11 14th -
United StatesUnited States United States 3 5 6th 8th Host of the 1994 World Cup .
Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 4th 5 5 - Both countries hosted the 2002 World Cup together.
JapanJapan Japan 3 2 - -
AustraliaAustralia Australia 1 - - -   -

Note: An absolute majority was required, which corresponded to twelve votes. Until this was achieved, the applicants with the fewest votes were eliminated in each round.

Venues

According to the FIFA application documents, at least twelve stadiums were planned as the venues for the 2022 World Cup: Qatar subsequently submitted an application with twelve venues; after FIFA awarded the World Cup finals in December 2010, another, previously unnamed stadium was considered as a venue. Due to the strong criticism that twelve large football stadiums are too many for such a small country, the number of World Cup stadiums was reduced to eight with the approval of FIFA.

al-Khaur ar-Rayyan
Venues in Qatar in 2022
al-Bayt Stadium Ahmed bin Ali Stadium Education City Stadium Khalifa International Stadium
Capacity: 60,000
(under construction) 		Capacity: 21,282
(enlarged to 40,000) 		Capacity: 40,000
(completed) 		Capacity: 40,000
(renewed)
Al Bayt Stadium 02 crop.jpg ملعب أحمد بن علي قبل مباراة الريان ونادي الشباب السعودي في دوري آبطال آسيا. Jpg Aerial view of Education City Stadium and Oxygen Park in Al Rayyan (Education City Stadium) crop.jpg
al-Wakra Doha Lusail
al-Janoub Stadium Doha Port Stadium al-Thumama Stadium Lusail Iconic Stadium
Capacity: 40,000
(completed) 		Capacity: 40,000
(planned) 		Capacity: 40,000
(under construction) 		Capacity: 86,250
(under construction)
Visita ao estádio de futebol Al Janoub.jpg CG rendering of Ras Abu Aboud Stadium crop.jpg Lusail Iconic Stadium final render.jpg

Kick-off times

At this World Cup, there are only 12 days available for the group phase instead of the previous 15. FIFA announced on July 15, 2020 that four games per day would be played during the group stage. On the 1st and 2nd day of the match, the games start at 11 a.m., 2 p.m., 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. CET (local time two hours later). On the 3rd matchday, the two games of a group will take place simultaneously. Two groups play per day; the games will kick off at 4:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. CET. These are also the kick-off times for all games in the knockout round. The World Cup final will finally take place on December 18, 2022 at 4 p.m. CET in the Lusail Stadium.

Qualifications and participants

32 teams will take part in the finals of the World Cup. The starting places are allocated within the six continental associations through qualifying tournaments and intercontinental playoffs. The host Qatar is automatically qualified.

The distribution of the starting places remains unchanged from the tournaments of 2014 and 2018:

  • Africa ( CAF ): 5
  • Asia ( AFC including Australia ): 4.5 *
  • Europe ( UEFA ): 13
  • North, Central America and the Caribbean ( CONCACAF ): 3.5 *
  • Oceania ( OFC ): 0.5 *
  • South America ( CONMEBOL ): 4.5 *
  • Host (Qatar / Asia): 1

 * = Half places mean that another team can qualify via intercontinental playoffs.

Organization and environment

Infrastructure

Four stadiums will be located in the capital, Doha, while the other four stadiums will be located in cities in the vicinity, so that only relatively short distances between the sports facilities will be manageable. All stages are in addition to the under construction rail system (the light railway system, the core of the Doha Metro connected forms). It is estimated that 60 percent of visitors will take this train to the stadiums.

The investment volume for the eight arcades is estimated at around 2.87 billion to 4 billion US dollars. The total investment volume for hosting the World Cup is estimated at up to 50 billion US dollars. The project should also develop a great deal of momentum within the overall framework of Qatar's development - and in particular of the Doha metropolitan area - into a modern settlement area. This should give positive impulses for the infrastructural and structural development of the area (see The Pearl , Lusail , Doha Metro ).

Planning and construction status

Sheikh Mohammed Hamad bin Chalifa Al Thani , the mentor for the World Cup application, commissioned the Frankfurt planning office Albert Speer & Partner GmbH (AS&P) and its partners to develop the plans. Because of the great heat in summer, the stadiums should be tempered. Of the eight stadiums required for the World Cup, three existing stadiums will be expanded and five new ones will be built. The new buildings will be constructed in a modular manner, i. In other words, after the World Cup, they can be dismantled and reduced in size as required, or completely dismantled and relocated elsewhere.

Broadcast and reporting

Germany

On May 29, 2016, the private broadcaster RTL signed a contract according to which all qualifying games for the 2022 World Cup will be broadcast to the German team. Selected games without German participation will be broadcast on Nitro .

Switzerland

As before being SRG SSR institutions equipment SRF , RTS , RSI and RTR qualifying matches of the senior team , and accompanying the World Cup in Qatar exclusively on television Radio multimedia. SRG SSR acquired the broadcast rights for the World Cup from FIFA in April 2012.

Austria

The ORF will broadcast all 64 World Cup games. He also has the live rights to the radio broadcasts, live streaming and video-on-demand.

Others

The organizing committee has signed a $ 10 million deal with Interpol .

criticism

There were various criticisms surrounding the award of the World Cup. In addition to allegations of corruption, Qatar's lack of football tradition and the difficult climatic conditions were pointed out, and the human rights situation in Qatar was also criticized.

The then DFB President Theo Zwanziger , who is considered an opponent of the World Cup in Qatar, spoke out in favor of re-awarding the World Cup at the end of 2011. The former president of the English Football Association, David Bernstein , also called for a new tender. However, FIFA boss Blatter repeatedly made it clear that the World Cup would take place in Qatar. One will only talk about whether the tournament should be held in winter to avoid the heat that prevails there in summer. In mid-May 2014 he described the awarding of the World Cup to Qatar as a “mistake” for the first time.

Corruption in voting

A fundamental criticism of many publications and comments from Western Europe relates to the poorly transparent voting behavior of the members of the FIFA Executive Committee. According to statements by a committee member of the South America section, votes are said to have been bought well in advance of the Qatar application. Two of the 24 members of the Executive Committee, namely the representatives of Tahiti and Nigeria, offered their votes for the World Cup for sale and were filmed with hidden cameras by the English weekly newspaper The Sunday Times .

In one of his first interviews after the World Cup was awarded to Russia and Qatar, Sepp Blatter vehemently denied the allegations made regarding corruption and lack of transparency in the voting process. He commented on the result of the votes as follows:

“It is my philosophy to drive the expansion of football. I started working at FIFA as a development officer over thirty years ago. I stayed that way to this day. [...] Some just can't cope with the exception of others. [...] If you think about this strategy consistently, then the next areas that we would have to conquer would be China and India . "

- Sepp Blatter

On June 1, 2014, the suspicion of corruption was reinforced when the Sunday Times reported that several million US dollars had been paid to get a vote in Qatar's favor. The newspaper wants to be in possession of specific evidence. The Australian newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald also brought allegations of bribery against the original competitor from Australia .

Qatar's lack of football tradition

Qatar's bid for the World Cup had been considered hopeless in the western world. The criticism after the award to Qatar is essentially justified by the fact that the country has no footballing tradition: Qatar had never participated in a World Cup finals before, at the time of the award Qatar was and was in 113th place in the FIFA world rankings At the time of the award, he had just two international golf trophies ( 1992 , 2004 ). However, another title in the 2014 Golf Cup and victory in the 2019 Asian Football Championship followed . FIFA countered this point of criticism on the grounds that they wanted to break new ground.

“And of course the fans from all over the world will leave Qatar with a completely new understanding of the Middle East after the fascinating experience of Arab hospitality.

Hosting the FIFA World Cup in this region would also be an important contribution to international understanding, in line with the FIFA slogan For the Game; For the World . "

- FIFA website : applicants for the 2022 FIFA World Cup ™

Climatic conditions

A major objection to the award from the start was that the stadiums had to be air-conditioned due to the high summer temperatures of up to 50 degrees Celsius. As a result, Franz Beckenbauer suggested that the soccer World Cup should be postponed to winter, which Blatter also spoke out in favor of a month later, but relativized this a short time later. On January 20, 2012, FIFA made it clear in an official statement that “there are currently no concrete plans” to move the 2022 World Cup from summer to winter. This "should be initiated by the Football Association of Qatar and submitted to the FIFA Executive Committee". On July 17, 2013, Blatter again spoke out in favor of moving to winter.

The UEFA President Michel Platini was initially critical of the awarding of the World Cup to Qatar because of the summer heat and pleaded for the tournament to be postponed until winter. After his son Laurent entered the executive suite of Qatar Sport Investment (QSI), which became known in February 2012, father Michel admitted to having voted for Qatar.

On October 4, 2013, the FIFA Executive Committee announced that it would only take the decision to postpone the World Cup until winter after the 2014 event . It was decided to conduct a consultation process in which one speaks with all parties involved.

The international ski association FIS , which was seeking a joint resolution by the other winter sports associations against the World Cup in winter, had spoken out against moving it to winter , and the IOC also feared a collision with the 2022 Winter Games, which had not yet been awarded at the time . On November 9, 2013, FIFA President Blatter ruled out a January or February event out of respect for the Olympic family and organization.

On February 24, 2015, after six months of consultations and three meetings, the FIFA Working Group on the 2018-2024 International Match Calendar announced that “the end of November to the end of December is considered to be the most viable solution for hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup”. In addition, a shortened tournament duration was proposed. The FIFA Executive Committee approved the proposal at its meeting on 19/20 March 2015.

Human rights situation

working conditions

The British daily The Guardian reported in September 2013 on the exploitation of Nepalese guest workers in Qatar. Between June 4 and August 8, 2013, 44 guest workers died, half of them due to heart failure or accidents at work caused by the brutal working conditions on the construction sites. FIFA has announced that it will seek clarification from the authorities in Qatar. FIFA also announced that the Guardian's reports would be discussed as an item on the agenda at the FIFA Executive Committee meeting on October 3 and 4, 2013. As a result of the meeting, Blatter announced that FIFA would “not close its eyes”, but also stated that “the responsibility for labor rights lies with the company”. He made Qatar an obligation to intervene.

On November 17, 2013, the human rights organization Amnesty International reported systematic exploitation of guest workers in the construction industry and cases of forced labor following an investigation into working conditions in Qatar . Amnesty submitted a 153-page report on this. An international petition was also launched to those responsible in Qatar. In a special supplement to the Amnesty Journal (04–05 / 2014) it is reported, citing information from the Indian embassy, ​​that more than 450 Indians died on Qatar's World Cup construction sites in 2012 and 2013. Many guest workers have to wait for their wages to be paid out and therefore go begging for food. It also allegedly happens again and again that they are beaten and kicked by superiors. Due to the common practice of employers to keep migrant workers' passports under lock and key, it is difficult for those affected to evade harassment by changing jobs.

On March 19, 2015, on the occasion of the decision to host the World Cup in winter, allegations against Qatar became public again. According to a study by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) published in March 2014, 1,200 of all Indians and Nepalis working in Qatar died between 2011 and 2013, around 250 Indians and 170 Nepalese annually. The Indian government believes it is quite normal that out of 500,000 Indians working in Qatar, 250 die each year; In India, the death rate is 1,000 per half million annually for men between the ages of 25 and 30. This is a good comparison group as the Qatari workers are mainly young men. In the UK the number is also higher for men of this age: 300 per half million of them die each year. Tim Noonan of the ITUC replied to the BBC that apples are being compared to pears: The workers in Qatar are exceptionally fit because the state there requires a health check for them before they can start. The number of 1,200 workers who died is often quoted and is often, incorrectly, given as the number of workers who died in preparation for the World Cup. However, this number does not say so, as the BBC reported in June 2015. This figure came about when the ITUC asked the embassies of India and Nepal about the death rates of their compatriots working in Qatar for the years 2011 to 2013 and then added these six numbers together. So the death toll of 1,200 includes not only those who died who had worked on projects for the World Cup, but also those who had worked on something completely different, and it includes not only construction workers, but workers of all kinds. would workers from these countries still work in Qatar, and some of them would perish. Another point of criticism of the number is that only workers from two countries were counted, but in Qatar there are workers from many other countries whose consideration would increase the number. The ITUC bears a great responsibility for the wrong number because it believes it is legitimate to attribute any work by Indians and Nepalis in Qatar to the World Cup. According to the BBC, there was a construction boom there even before the World Cup was awarded to Qatar. Deaths of any kind are also counted, e.g. B. a heart attack in your free time. The main points of criticism in the IGB study on the workers' situation were non-stop work at 50 ° C heat, insufficient nutrition, lack of drinking water, inadequate occupational safety, medical undersupply and violence against workers. A study examining the deaths of 1,300 Nepalese migrant workers between 2009 and 2017 found that 571 of them had died of heart attacks , and many of these deaths could have been prevented with adequate heat protection.

At the beginning of May 2015, a BBC TV crew invited by the Prime Minister of Qatar was arrested and detained for two nights after trying to research the working conditions of the guest workers outside of the official press meetings. The journalists were allowed to leave the country after two weeks, but their equipment and the material that had already been produced remained confiscated.

In May 2015 Amnesty International repeatedly criticized the fact that the prospect of abolishing the Kafala system, which chains guest workers to a local “sponsor”, had still not been implemented. Foreign workers would still not be able to terminate their employment contracts without the consent of the domestic employer and they would still not be allowed to leave the country without his express permission. Guest workers are powerless against inhumane living conditions, working conditions that are harmful to health and unpaid wages. The poor working conditions hadn't changed by 2019. According to Amnesty International , the working conditions are "still disastrous".

homosexuality

Another objection to the awarding of the Games to Qatar in many Western countries was that homosexual acts are a criminal offense in Qatar . Homosexual fans and players are threatened with discrimination and persecution.

Qatar foreign policy

In response to the blockade of Qatar by Arab states because of the alleged support of Islamist terrorism by the Qatari government, the DFB President, Reinhard Grindel , said in June 2017 that “the football community around the world should generally agree that major tournaments are not in Countries that actively support terrorism ”, and that the DFB will coordinate with UEFA and the federal government on whether a boycott of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar should be considered.

Web links

Commons : Soccer World Cup 2022  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

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