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The 2022 FIFA World Cup was the 22nd FIFA World Cup, ... At an estimated cost of over $220 billion, [53] it is the most expensive World Cup ever held to date; ...
Costs of the tournament totalled $11.6 billion, [26] making it the most expensive World Cup to date, [27] until surpassed by 2018 FIFA World Cup which cost an estimated $14.2 billion. [28] FIFA was expected to spend US$2 billion on staging the finals, [29] with its greatest single expense being the US$576 million prize money pot. That money ...
Bids for the 2022 World Cup came from Australia, Japan, Qatar, South Korea, and the United States. Indonesia's bid was disqualified due to lack of governmental support, and Mexico withdrew its bid for financial reasons. On 2 December 2010, Russia and Qatar were selected as the locations for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups respectively.
Air conditioning in huge open-air stadiums, hundreds of international flights, lots and lots of lights.
FIFA executive committee member Theo Zwanziger said that awarding the 2022 World Cup to Qatar was a "blatant mistake". [52] Frank Lowy, chairman of Football Federation Australia, said that if the 2022 World Cup were moved to November and thus upset the schedule of the A-League, they would seek compensation from FIFA. [53]
The newly built stadium hosted five matches during FIFA Arab Cup 2021, including the final of the tournament on 18 December 2021. [24] [25] On 20 November 2022, the stadium hosted the opening game of the FIFA World Cup between Qatar and Ecuador; 67,372 were reported to be in attendance at kick-off, despite the capacity of the stadium being 60,000.
FIFA will reportedly consider a proposal to expand the 2030 men's World Cup to a whopping 64 teams, twice the size of the 2022 tournament and previous editions. The World Cup is set to expand to ...
A political cartoon depicting slave labour in the construction of the stadiums in Qatar ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup [7] (see also: Slavery in Qatar). In a December 2021 interview with Al Jazeera, FIFA's secretary-general Fatma Samoura said that FIFA had developed a general framework to structure and guide the implementation of its human rights responsibilities and commitment, published in ...