2022 FIFA World Cup set to kick off in Qatar today, The 2022 FIFA World Cup, which will be the 22nd iteration of the international football competition governed by FIFA, is scheduled to begin in Qatar on Sunday. Tonight at 7 p.m. (Doha time) (10 p.m. (Dhaka time), Qatar and the Ecuadorian national team will square off in the opening match of the championship in Qatar. The game will be held at the Al-Bayt Stadium, which can accommodate 60,000 spectators.
2022 FIFA World Cup set to kick off in Qatar today
The Netherlands and Senegal, who are also members of Group A, were supposed to play each other on November 21 to kick off the world championship. But the FIFA Council’s bureau made the decision to postpone the tournament’s opening match to November 20 on August 11, saying that it honoured FIFA’s heritage and that every World Cup should begin with an opening ceremony and inaugural game involving the host nation.
The Russian national football team is not taking part in the upcoming FIFA World Cup. It finished second in its group at the qualifying stage with 22 points after 10 matches, which saw the Russian squad proceeding to the playoffs, where they had another chance to qualify for the world’s largest football tournament.
However, the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) announced on February 28 that the Russian national team and all professional clubs representing the country were barred from taking part in FIFA tournaments, including the upcoming 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
On April 1, a draw for the group stage of the World Cup was held, placing all participating teams into the following groups:
- Group A: Qatar, Ecuador, Senegal, Netherlands
- Group B: England, Iran, the United States, Wales
- Group C: Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Poland
- Group D: France, Tunisia, Denmark, Australia
- Group E: Spain, Costa Rica, Germany, Japan
- Group F: Belgium, Canada, Morocco, Croatia
- Group G: Brazil, Serbia, Switzerland, Cameroon
- Group H: Portugal, Ghana, Uruguay, South Korea
The group stage matches are scheduled to run across numerous fields in Qatar between November 20 and December 2. Qatar won the right to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup on December 2, 2010. In March 2015, FIFA officially announced that the 22nd edition of FIFA’s flagship event would be played in November and December of 2022, with the final match set for December 18, 2022, coinciding with – Qatar National Day. The objective, in principle, was to hold the tournament over 28 days.
Qatar is set to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup between November 20 and December 18 at eight stadiums in five cities across the country. The eight stadiums at the issue are Al Bayt Stadium, Khalifa International Stadium, Al Thumama Stadium, Ahmad bin Ali Stadium, Lusail Iconic Stadium, Stadium 974, Education City Stadium, Al Janoub Stadium.
The FIFA World Cup is held every four years. The inaugural event was hosted by Uruguay in 1930. The national football team of Brazil has participated in all 22 editions of the FIFA World Cup beginning in 1930, winning five of them (in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002).
The national teams of Germany and Italy are each four-time World Cup winners (Germany – in 1954, 1974, 1990, 2014; Italy – in 1934, 1938, 1982, 2006).
The previous FIFA World Cup was hosted by Russia in 2018. The championship kicked off in Moscow with a remarkable opening show at Luzhniki Stadium on the evening of June 14, 2018 and ended on July 15 with a spectacular final match, also played at Luzhniki Stadium, where France defeated Croatia 4-2 to win the much-coveted World Cup Trophy.
Russian cities Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Kazan, Saransk, Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Yekaterinburg, and Samara all hosted stadiums for the championship. In the presence of FIFA President Gianni Infantino, Russian President Vladimir Putin handed the FIFA World Cup host country’s baton to Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani on July 15, 2018, during a formal ceremony in the Kremlin.