The selection of Qatar to host this year's FIFA World Cup brought cheers to the streets of Doha in a celebration of the first edition of the tournament to be held in the Arab world. But the choice ...

In 2010, the football world gasped when Qatar, a country with no existing infrastructure to host major sporting events, ...

The 2022 World Cup final will go down as one of the most exciting, dramatic and memorable matches in the history of the game. It was the scene of Lionel Messi’s greatest moment on a soccer pitch ...

At the time, the award of the World Cup to Qatar in 2010 was not without controversy. Unlike other previous hosts, the country had little soccer infrastructure in terms of stadia and training ...

A general view shows flags of the qualified countries for the 2022 World Cup in the Qatari capital Doha during a flag-raising ceremony of the last remaining countries to qualify, on June 16, 2022.

In 2010, when FIFA announced that Qatar would host the 2022 World Cup, the news spurred celebration in that nation — and trepidation around the globe. Qatar lacked infrastructure, faced extreme ...

The questions over whether Qatar had the footballing gravitas and tradition to hold the World Cup are well-trodden now. However, the message the Qataris tried to put forward from the start was ...

The World Cup in Qatar takes place later this year from 21 November to 18 December. It is set to be a tournament like no other as the host country has faced intense scrutiny in the build-up to the ...

Two weeks in, protests have been the name of the game in Qatar this World Cup. The immensely entertaining upsets — South Korea clinching a knockout stage berth after defeating Portugal and Japan ...

In the build-up to last year’s World Cup, the organizers received widespread criticism for their treatment of migrant workers. In 2021, The Guardian reported that 6,500 South Asian migrant ...

This World Cup is complicated. It is natural not to know how to feel about the tournament kicking off in Qatar, a country that criminalises homosexuality, has limited women’s rights, and where ...

KHOR, Qatar — The 22nd World Cup hatched Sunday in a setting that once would have seemed far-fetched: in a small city amid the vast sands along the Persian Gulf coast 45 minutes north of Doha ...