The senior men’s national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the world’s soccer governing organization, compete in the FIFA World Cup, commonly referred to as the World Cup. The championship has been given out every four years since the first competition in 1930, with the exception of 1942 and 1946 when it was postponed due to the Second World War. In 2018, France won their second championship at the competition in Russia, making them the current champions.
For the past three years, teams have competed in a qualification phase to see who will advance to the tournament phase of the current format. During the tournament phase, 32 teams battled for the title in locations throughout the host nation(s) over the course of about a month. The host country(ies) automatically qualifies.
At the 2018 FIFA World Cup, 21 final competitions had already taken place, and 79 different national teams had participated. There have been eight national teams that have won the title. The only team to compete in every tournament is Brazil, which has won five times. Germany and Italy, with four titles apiece, Argentina, France, and Uruguay, with two titles each, are the other World Cup champions. England and Spain each have one trophy.
In addition to being the most renowned association football competition in the world, the World Cup is also the most watched and followed sporting event worldwide. A tenth of the world’s population, or 715.1 million individuals, were thought to have watched the World Cup final, bringing the total number of viewers for all of the tournament’s games to an estimated 26.29 billion.
There have been 17 different World Cup host nations. Brazil, France, Italy, Germany, and Mexico have all held events twice, while Uruguay, Switzerland, Sweden, Chile, England, Argentina, Spain, the United States, Japan, and South Korea (jointly), South Africa, and Russia have all hosted events once.
2022’s World Cup is being hosted by Qatar, and the 2026 competition will be co-hosted by Canada, the United States, and Mexico, making Mexico the first nation to have hosted matches in three World Cups.
Qatar 2022 groups
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
Qatar’s 2022 schedule of games
Group play will take place between November 20 and December 2. From December 3 to 18, the knockout round will be held.
Each of the six continental confederations affiliated with FIFA ran its own qualifying rounds. To enter qualification, a team had to represent one of the 211 FIFA member associations. As the tournament’s hosts, the national team of Qatar was given automatic qualification. The first two rounds of the Asian qualifying stage serve as a means of qualification for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup, hence the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) compelled Qatar to take part. [61] The fifth-best second-place team, Lebanon, advanced in place of Qatar, who advanced as group champions to the final round. [62] As is customary, qualification rounds were also completed by France, the current World Cup champions.
FIFA announced the match schedule in July 2020. A four-game schedule was scheduled to start the group stage on November 21st. After Qatar successfully pushed FIFA to enable their squad to open the tournament, the schedule was later adjusted by moving the Qatar vs. Ecuador game to November On December 18, 2022, National Day, the championship game will take place at Lusail Iconic Stadium.
Each group’s games will be played at the following stadiums:
Stadiums in Groups A, B, E, and F: Al Bayt Stadium, Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium, and Khalifa International Stadium
Stadium 974, Education City Stadium, and
Al Janoub Stadium is among the venues in Groups C, D, G, and H.
On April 1, 2022, following the draw, FIFA announced the group stage location and kickoff timings. On August 11, it was officially announced that Senegal vs. Netherlands, which would have kicked off the competition under the previous schedule, had been moved to the time slot that had become available. As a result, Qatar vs. Ecuador would now serve as the competition’s opening match.
Prize cash
FIFA released the awards for all competing nations in April 2022. Each qualified team will get $1.5 million before the competition to cover costs associated with the preparation, and each team will win at least $9 million in prize money. The overall prize fund for this tournament will be $440 million, which is an increase of $40 million from the fund for the previous event.
Venues
Beginning in March 2010, the first five potential World Cup locations were presented. The designs must adhere to the following criteria: legacy, comfort, accessibility, and sustainability. There should be a reflection of Qatar’s culture and history in the stadiums. The stadiums will include cooling systems that are designed to lower inside temperatures by up to 20 °C (36 °F), but it is not yet clear if these systems will be effective in the open-air stadiums.
The upper tiers of the stadiums will be removed after the World Cup and gifted to nations with less developed sporting infrastructure, according to their marketing, which also claims that the stadiums produce zero waste. Qatar hopes to have all the World Cup venues accredited as being in compliance with the Global Sustainability Assessment System (GSAS). Albert Speer & Partners, a German architectural firm, created each of the five stadium projects that have been announced. The Al Bayt Stadium will be the only one of the eight that is utilized indoors.
According to a report published in December 2010, FIFA President Sepp Blatter suggested that other countries may host certain World Cup games. The study made no mention of any particular nations. Blatter further stated that Qatar must make any such decisions before they are approved by
