FIFA World Cup 2022

  The 2022 FIFA World Cup tournament draw will be held on April 1 The draw ceremony will take place in Doha, Qatar. Iran has almost qualified for the prestigious competition for the sixth time. Team Melli will host Iraq on January 27 in Tehran. The 2022 FIFA World Cup will be held in Qatar from November 21 to December 18 next year.

  O ffsides have been a contentious topic for many years and now it seems that new technology will be trialled at the  2022 World Cup . Pierluigi Collina ,  FIFA 's chief refereeing officer and a former referee himself, has explained the plans behind semi-automated offsides, which will use between 10 and 12 cameras to aid referees and linesmen in making offside decisions. "VAR has had a very positive impact in football and the number of major mistakes is reduced, but there are areas where it can be improved and offside is one of them,"  Collina  told La Gazzetta dello Sport. "We are aware the process to check offsides can take longer, especially when it is very tight. We are also aware that the positioning of the lines may not be 100 percent accurate." "For this reason,  FIFA  are developing a technology which could offer faster and more accurate answers. This is known as semi-automated offside." Collina  was also very clear that the role of a ref...

The Bureau of the FIFA Council and the Bureau for the FIFA World Cup Qualifiers have taken a series of decisions concerning upcoming competitions. The dates for the FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2021 presented by Alibaba Cloud have been set from 3 to 12 February 2022. The draw , taking place on Monday, 29 November in Zurich, will decide the eight matches to be played in total between the representatives of each confederation and the host country, UAE. The format, dates and draw procedures for the OFC preliminary competition for the FIFA World Cup 2022 have also been confirmed. Nine teams will participate, following the withdrawal of American Samoa and Samoa. The OFC qualifiers will be played in a mini-tournament format featuring eight teams and consisting of a round-robin group stage, semi-finals and the final. A single qualification match will be played between the two lowest-ranked OFC member associations (those ranked eighth and ninth based on the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking) for the ri...

Ibhais, former media manager at Qatar 2022 football world cup organisers, claims he was targeted for his stance towards migrant workers. Doha, Qatar  – The court of appeal in Qatar has upheld a guilty verdict handed out to a former 2022 FIFA World Cup official for bribery and misuse of funds but reduced his prison sentence from five years to three years. Abdullah Ibhais, a former media manager at the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy (SC), the body delivering next year’s World Cup, was arrested in 2019 and sentenced to five years in April 2021. He was released pending appeal but was arrested again last month before launching a hunger strike “as a final resort” to clear his name and “demand a fair trial”. Ibhais, a Jordanian national, claimed he was targeted for speaking out in favour of migrant workers who went on strike in August 2019. The SC, however, rejected those claims and termed them “ludicrous, defamatory, and absolutely false”. “Misappropriation of state funds...

Bert van Marwijk seems set to remain as UAE manager through to the conclusion of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers. The Dutchman’s future has been the subject of much speculation following the national team’s exit earlier this month from the Fifa Arab Cup. The UAE were beaten 5-0 in the quarter-final by hosts Qatar, with the result prompting the resignation of the Football Association’s national teams and technical affairs committee. However, the new committee convened on Wednesday to discuss a number of issues, chief among them Van Marwijk’s position. The committee, led by former Al Nasr chairman Humaid Al Tayer, have recommended to the FA board of directors that Van Marwijk and his technical staff should continue. The committee, which also includes as consultant former Real Madrid defender Michel Salgado, confirmed its full support for the national team in their bid to reach the World Cup. The UAE resume the final round of qualification next month, with what promises t...

  T he  Arab Cup  has been played out in  Qatar  in recent weeks, with the country continuing its preparations for the  2022 World Cup . As countries have done in the past with the  Confederations Cup ,  Qatar  used the  Arab Cup  to show that they are ready for next year's World Cup, which will be played in November and December. MARCA were present at both the semi-finals and the final, and have been able to take in some of the stadiums that could host  Spain  next winter. An atypical World Cup The tournament will be played in November and December, already making it irregular. Players will cut their domestic seasons in half, taking a brief break from club football to set off with their respective countries to  Qatar . The  Arab Cup  has served as evidence that the heat at this time of year will not be an issue for teams in 2022. Many of the stadiums will be filled with 50,000 or 60,000 people next winter, ...

  Qatar passed their first test with a successful hosting of the Arab Cup but bigger challenges lie ahead when 1.2 million fans and 32 international teams arrive for the World Cup one year from now. Algerian rejoicing at Saturday’s 2-0 extra-time win over Tunisia in the final — exactly a year before the 2022 World Cup decider, and with FIFA president Gianni Infantino in the stands — will have been accompanied by satisfaction from Qatari officials. But now comes the hard work as Qatar prepares for the unique task of hosting a World Cup in and around a single city, Doha, with limited hotel accommodation and a transport network that is likely to come under strain. The wealthy Gulf state will also be bracing for intense scrutiny after coming under fire over the rights of the migrant labourers who have built its infrastructure, including the World Cup stadiums. And it will be mindful of a cultural gap when fans from around the world arrive in a conservative Muslim country with restricte...

Doha, Qatar   – The court of appeal in Qatar has upheld a guilty verdict handed out to a former 2022 FIFA World Cup official for bribery and misuse of funds but reduced his prison sentence from five years to three years. Abdullah Ibhais, a former media manager at the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy (SC), the body delivering next year’s World Cup, was arrested in 2019 and sentenced to five years in April 2021. He was released pending appeal but was arrested again last month before launching a hunger strike “as a final resort” to clear his name and “demand a fair trial”. Ibhais, a Jordanian national, claimed he was targeted for speaking out in favour of migrant workers who went on strike in August 2019. The SC, however, rejected those claims and termed them “ludicrous, defamatory, and absolutely false”. “Misappropriation of state funds is a serious crime in Qatar, and this is reflected in the court’s decision,” said a Qatari official, in a statement sent to Al Jazeera ...

Hannibal Mejbri is getting a further taste of big match action playing for his country in Qatar at the FIFA Arab Cup, and he wants more. In a year’s time Qatar will host the World Cup, and Hannibal wants to be part of it. Speaking to L’Equipe after Tunisia’s Arab Cup semi-final win over Egypt, the midfielder said: “It makes you want to qualify for the World Cup, we see the infrastructure here, it’s great. “We are trying to bring back something for Tunisia and its people, who come in large numbers. It’s harder to qualify in Africa for the World Cup. We have two round-trip play-offs left.” Hannibal has one assist and two man of the match awards in his five games at the Arab Cup so far, and his team are now into Saturday’s final. How Tunisia can qualify for the World Cup Tunisia are into the third and final round of qualifying, as one of 10 successful teams to reach this stage. There are five World Cup qualifying spots for African countries. Saturday is a big day for Tu...

As part of a defense agreement between the two countries, France will help Qatar secure its airspace during the 2022 World Cup. The Emirate is set to host the international men's football championship between November 21 and December 18, 2022.   The French armed forces will provide the host nation with an “Advise and Assist”, sending both personnel and material to the Qatari territory, according to a report from the French Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee.   “With the exception of isolated terrorist acts, which are by nature very difficult to detect, the threats identified concern the cyber field [...] and intrusion of aircraft or drones in the airspace of Qatar,” reported French lawmaker Didier Quentin.  Along with advisors, a BASSALT anti-drone system will also be deployed. Devel...