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Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter says the decision to award the 2022 World Cup finals to Qatar was a “mistake”. In 2010, FIFA’s executive committee voted 14-8 for Qatar to host the tournament ahead of the United States. “It was ...

An India-based computer hacking gang targeted critics of the Qatar World Cup, an investigation by British journalists said on Sunday, as the Qatari government furiously denied it had played any part in commissioning the eavesdropping. A database leaked to Britain’s ...

The crescendo of excitement over the first FIFA World Cup in the Middle East is being intermittently pierced by noises of international politics amid a pushback by Qatar, which on Friday summoned Germany’s ambassador to Doha to protest remarks made ...

French World Cup-winning hero Zinedine Zidane said Monday it was “time to forget the controversies and focus on the football” at the upcoming World Cup in Qatar, despite calls to boycott the tournament over the Gulf state’s rights record and ...

Lawyers for a group of women subjected to intrusive searches at Doha Airport two years ago called Sunday for Qatar to guarantee female fans travelling to next month’s football World Cup will be safe. Five women are suing Qatar Airways ...

World Cup hosts Qatar will stage the 2023 Asian Cup, the Asian Football Confederation said on Monday, after China withdrew earlier this year because of Covid. China in June 2019 won the bid to host the event but pulled out ...

Qatar World Cup organisers on Wednesday warned fans to brace for “congestion” in the first two weeks of the tournament when the peak number of supporters will be packing the Gulf state’s capital. Private cars will be banned from many ...

The World Cup’s start will be brought forward by a day to allow hosts Qatar to play the opening game, sources told AFP on Wednesday, just over three months before the competition gets underway. Qatar will now play Ecuador on ...

The 22nd edition of FIFA World Cup is set to start on 21st November 2022 as hosts Qatar to play Ecuador in the opening match of tournament. Teams are categorized into 8 groups and Qatar vs Ecuador fixture comes from ...

The draw for this year’s World Cup takes place in the shadow of Doha’s skyscrapers on Friday, with the focus for the evening on the actual football after a build-up dominated by the many off-field issues surrounding the awarding of ...