The FIFA World Cup 2022 is an international association football competition contested by the senior men’s national teams of the members of the Fdration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport’s international governing body. The tournament will be held in Qatar from 21 November to 18 December 2022. It will be the first World Cup to be held in the Arab world, and the second to be held entirely in Asia after the 2002 tournament in South Korea and Japan.
A total of 32 teams will compete in the tournament, which will be played in eight venues across five cities. The teams will be divided into eight groups of four, with the top two teams in each group advancing to the knockout stage. The knockout stage will consist of 16 teams, which will compete in a single-elimination tournament to determine the winner.