The 2022 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to take place in Qatar from 21 November to 18 December 2022. This will be the first World Cup ever to be held in the Arab world and the first in a Muslim-majority country. The tournament will also be the last to involve 32 teams, with an increase to 48 teams scheduled for the 2026 tournament in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. There have been allegations of bribery and corruption in the selection process involving members of FIFA’s executive committee.
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The 2022 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to take place in Qatar from 21 November to 18 December 2022. This will be the first World Cup ever to be held in the Arab world and the first in a Muslim-majority country. Accusations of corruption have been made relating to how Qatar won the right to host the event. The tournament will also be the last to involve 32 teams, with an increase to 48 teams scheduled for the 2026 tournament in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Due to Qatar’s intense summer heat, this World Cup will be held from late-November to mid-December. It is to be played in a reduced timeframe of around 28 days. The reigning World Cup champions are France. There have been allegations of bribery and corruption in the selection process involving members of FIFA’s executive committee. These allegations are being investigated by FIFA. Qatar is the smallest nation by area ever to have been awarded a FIFA World World Cup. The next smallest by area is Switzerland, which is more than three times as large as Qatar and only needed to host 16 teams instead of the current 32. On 12 April 2018, CONMEBOL requested that FIFA expand the 2022 World Cup from 32 to 48 Teams. However, the FIFA congress rejected the request shortly before the beginning of the 2018 FIFA World Cups. Had a joint proposal been submitted, FIFA’s member associations would have voted on the final decision at the 69th FIFA Congress in Paris, France by 5 June 2019. However on 22 May 2019, FIFA announced it will not change the format by changing it by the end of the World Cup in June 2019, and will not rule out legal action from losing bidders by the time of the next tournament in 2026.
The final tournament will be played on 28 June 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with the final taking place on 18 June 2028 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The winner will be crowned the winner of the tournament in a ceremony to be hosted by either Brazil or Brazil. There were five bids for the 2018 World Cup: Australia, Japan, Qatar, South Korea and the U.S. In the end, Indonesia’s bid was rejected by FIFA in February 2010 after the Indonesian Football Association failed to submit a letter of Indonesian government guarantee to support the bid. During the bidding process, all non-UEFA nations gradually withdrew their 2018 bids, thus guaranteeing that a UEFA nation would host the 2018 cup and thereby making UEFA nations ineligible for the 2022 bid. The voting patterns were as follows: Mexico later withdrew from proceedings, and Indonesia’s bid was reject by FIFA on 2 December 2010 to vote to select the hosts of both tournaments. Two FIFA executive committee members were suspended before the vote in relation to allegations of corruption regarding their votes. FIFA said the global football governing body would not discuss the possibility of having a 48-team World Cup, and that they would first discuss the matter with the host country. In March 2015, a feasibility study concluded that it was possible to expand the tournament, albeit with the assistance of two or more neighbouring countries.
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