11 Interesting Facts About FIFA World Cup 2022 Qatar

We all are very excited about the upcoming Qatar FIFA World Cup 2022. To raise your excitement more and more we came up with several fascinating Facts about FIFA World Cup 2022, which is going to be held in the Arab country Qatar. So stay tuned and read the complete write-up to flaunt in front of your squad with these FIFA world cup 2022 interesting facts. 

Here in this write-up, we will cover the most interesting and unknown facts about the world cup that will blow your mind and will you super-delighted information about Qatar FIFA world cup 2022. It is the first time that Qatar will host the FIFA tournaments so there will be many things that never happened before and that is what we are here to tell you. So let’s get started with the Qatar FIFA World Cup Facts and some very interesting historical moments you must know before this world cup starts.

Qatar Never Played FIFA World Cup Before

It sounds quite weird but Qatar never played in the history of the FIFA World Cup before because they could not qualify for the tournaments. In 2022, Qatar will play for the first time in the FIFA world cup, they automatically qualified for the Wolrd cup as they are the host country. This is one of the most interesting and unknown Qatar FIFA world cup facts.

First FIFA To Be Held In Winters

Usually, the World cup is held in May-June months, but there is a major change in the FIFA World Cup Schedule 2022, it is set to be held in November-December months. So the 2022 FIFA world cup will be the first football world cup ever to be held in the winter. Are you excited to know the reason behind it? 

Actually, the FIFA world cup 2022 will be in Qatar, and Qatar is a desert country so the temperature can rise up to 50 degrees which is very high to tolerate. By keeping this thing in mind, the 2022 FIFA world is set to be held in November-December or winter. This fact is one of the most unknown Qatar world cup facts 2022.

First-Time Female Referees In FIFA World Cup

It is the first in the whole FIFA world cup history when female referees will be in the matches. Three female referees named Salima Mukansanga (33 years old), Yoshimi Yamashita, (36 years old), and Stephanie Frappart (38 years old) will show the power of women. It is a great initiative by FIFA to hire female referees as it will promote gender equality and the result will be definitely impactful as FIFA is watched by a major audience globally. So this is going to be one of the most interesting facts about FIFA world cup.

Smallest Nation To Host World Cup

Qatar will be the smallest country to host the FIFA World Cup so far. Earlier this title was held by Uruguay, but now Qatar is smaller than Uruguay in terms of both geography and population, so Qatar has now become the smallest country to host the World Cup. When Uruguay hosted FIFA its population was 3.5 million and the current population of Qatar is 2.6 million. 

First Arab Country To Host World Cup

Being the smallest nation to host the Wolrd cup Qatar is also the first Arab country ever to host the World cup. The bidding process to get the FIFA World Cup hosting is won by Qatar this year, so it will be a completely new experience for all the players and visitors as well. 

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Second Asian Country To Host World Cup

Qatar is the second Asian country to host the Football World Cup. Earlier in 2002, Japan and South Korea jointly hosted the FIFA World Cup. and in 2002 Brazil won the World cup after fighting against Germany. Brazil is 5 times winner and Germany is 4 times winner of the FIFA world cup. 

The reason that Asian countries do not host FIFA many times is they do not have the necessary and huge infrastructures to organize such a vast kind of program. They have to build up things first and that will be very costly. 

The last FIFA World Cup 2018 was hosted by Russia which is a European country and the final was played between France and Croatia. If we see the history of France in World Cup, a total of two times France won the title. 

Most Expensive World Cup

We have just talked about it, Asian countries do not have enough infrastructure to organize big tournaments like the world cup, and Qatar also does not have and has to build up so the cost is going very high in comparison to other world cups. The total cost to make the FIFA world cup 2022 successful is around $220 billion. 

In this $220 billion expenditure, some things have been built in Qatar such as hotels, roads, and most importantly stadiums which I have mentioned ahead very clearly. Not everyone knows about this so this is also one of the FIFA world cup 2022 interesting facts. 

Nigerian 

There is one more fact we can add to the list of most interesting facts about FIFA world cup 2022 and that is the Nigerian advantage. Actually, Nigeria gets failed to qualify this year for the FIFA but still, several Nigerians will be in the world cup. 

Two popular singers from Nigeria named Davido and Kizz Daniel will perform in the opening ceremony of the FIFA world. Not only this but some players named Arnaut Danjuma, Bukayo Saka, Daryl Dike, Fikayo Tomori, and more will play for other countries as well.

Minimum Number of Stadiums

Stadiums are also one of the new infrastructures that have been built in Qatar for the World Cup. In total 7 stadiums have been built and one has been renovated, which means in FIFA World Cup 2022, 64 matches of 32 countries’ teams will be played in only 8 stadiums. This is the very least number of stadiums for tournaments like the world cup. But as we know already that Qatar is a small nation so this is also one of the most interesting facts about FIFA world cup 2022.      

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Most Packed World Cup

Most packed, here I mean, football world cup 2022 will be in a 60 km of radius. All 8 stadiums selected for the World cup are present in a radius of 60km which makes it the most compact world cup ever.    

First World Cup Without Queen Elizabeth II

The upcoming FIFA world cup 2022 will be the first world cup ever without Queen Elizabeth II. FIFA was started in the year 1930 and Queen Elizabeth II was born in 1926 and was associated with football. Queen Elizabeth II used to visit the stadium several times to watch football. 

Here we have shared 11 interesting facts about Qatar world cup facts 2022. Apart from that, we can also conclude one more fact in FIFA world cup 2022 interesting facts, that is it will be very easy to travel for the players and audience from one stadium to another as they are located within just a 60km of radius.    

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Final Words

We have shared 11 interesting facts about Qatar world cup facts 2022, they are all very interesting and unique from all the world cups held in past. Hope the FIFA world cup 2022 interesting facts excite you as much as I was when I read them for the first time. There is one more thing that can be added in the list of interesting facts about FIFA world cup, this world cup will also work as a bridge between the middle east and European culture.

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