Referee: Szymon Marciniak ( Poland) Marketing Branding The Pot 1 teams were automatically seeded as 1. Teams from the same confederation could not be in the same group except UEFA, which allowed maximum two teams in the same group. The teams in Pot 4 were the five lowest-ranked teams, the two inter-confederation play-off winners and the UEFA Path A play-off winner. The teams in Pot 2 were the next best eight teams, with the next best eight teams into Pot 3. The teams in Pot 1 were the hosts, Qatar (who were automatically seeded as A1) and the best seven teams.
įor the draw, the 32 teams were put into four pots based on their FIFA World Rankings of 31 March 2022. The two winners of the inter-confederation play-offs and the winner of the Path A of the UEFA play-offs were not known at the time of the draw. The final draw was in the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center in Doha, Qatar, on 1 April 2022, 19:00 AST, before the qualifiers finished. Frappart oversaw the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup Final. They will be joined by three female assistant referees, also a first. Stéphanie Frappart from France, Rwandan Salima Mukansanga and Yoshimi Yamashita from Japan became the first female referees to be appointed to a men's World Cup. For the first time women referees will referee games at a major men's tournament. Of the 36 referees, FIFA included two each from Argentina, Brazil, England and France. On, FIFA announced the list of 36 referees, and 69 assistant referees and 24 video assistant referees for the tournament. CONCACAF (North and Central America and Caribbean): 3 or 4.AFC (Asia): 4 or 5 (not including Qatar, the hosts).The committee decided that the slots would be the same as 2018. The amount of available World Cup slots for each confederation was discussed by the FIFA Executive Committee on in Zürich. Vanuatu and Cook Islands both withdrew because of COVID-19 cases in their squads, with Cook Islands withdrawing after already playing matches.
Russia was suspended by FIFA because of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Tonga withdrew because of the 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai eruption and tsunami. Saint Lucia, North Korea, American Samoa, Samoa all withdrew because of safety reasons related to the COVID-19 pandemic, with North Korea withdrawing after already playing matches.
The previous World Cup champions France will participate in qualification as normal. Qatar still plays in the first two rounds of AFC qualification because it is also qualification for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup. Qatar, qualified automatically because they are the hosts. All 211 associations are able to enter qualification. See the main article: 2022 FIFA World Cup qualificationįIFA's six continental confederations have their own qualifying tournaments.
Qatar was also criticized because of the treatment of the foreign workers preparing the World Cup stadiums. This investigation was criticized by Michael J. An investigation that was done by FIFA reported that Qatar earned hosting rights fairly. There have been suspicions on whether Qatar earned hosting rights fairly. The tournament was played during the months of November and December to avoid the intense heat during the summer months in Qatar. This was the last World Cup played with a 32 team format. It was the first World Cup hosted in the Arab world, and the second to be hosted fully in Asia. It was hosted in Qatar from 20 November to 18 December 2022. The Qatar 2022, FIFA World Cup was the 22nd FIFA World Cup.
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