Qatar at the FIFA World Cup

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Qatar national football team has never qualified for any single FIFA World Cup since the country's independence at 1971. While Qatar has been a regular participant in the continental AFC Asian Cup, the national side has always fallen short in the final stage of World Cup campaigns. By hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup and its failure to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup held in Russia, Qatar became the second nation after Italy in 1934 FIFA World Cup to play in World Cup without qualifying for it.[1]

Previous disgraced President of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, awarded the hosting rights of 2022 World Cup for Qatar, thus prompted many controversies around him and the decision, thus angered many people for awarding a country with no competitive World Cup history nor even with football culture.[2] Outside the problem of lacking football culture, Qatar is also facing criticisms over workers' terrible conditions in the country, time schedule and money bribery to host the edition,[3] which is denied by Qatar.

Qatar has brought some significant improvement however, which included the surprising 2019 AFC Asian Cup conquest, which is considered as important as a way Qatar wants to show that they could manage even more surprise in the maiden World Cup debut in spite of criticisms;[4] and also a stunning performance in 2019 Copa América by a 2–2 comeback draw to former champions and World Cup quarter-finalist Paraguay,[5] despite unable to manage another shocking conquest like the team did in Asian Cup earlier after bowing down 0–1 to Colombia[6] and 0–2 to Argentina.[7]

FIFA World Cup record[]

FIFA World Cup FIFA World Cup qualification
Year Result Position Pld W D* L GF GA Pld W D L GF GA
Uruguay 1930 Did not enter Did not enter
Italy 1934
France 1938
Brazil 1950
Switzerland 1954
Sweden 1958
Chile 1962
England 1966
Mexico 1970
West Germany 1974 Withdrew from Qualifiers Withdrew from Qualifiers
Argentina 1978 Did not qualify 4 1 0 3 3 9
Spain 1982 4 2 0 2 5 3
Mexico 1986 4 2 0 2 6 3
Italy 1990 11 4 6 1 12 8
United States 1994 8 5 1 2 22 8
France 1998 11 6 1 4 21 10
South Korea Japan 2002 14 7 4 3 24 13
Germany 2006 6 3 0 3 16 8
South Africa 2010 16 6 4 6 16 20
Brazil 2014 14 5 5 4 18 14
Russia 2018 16 9 1 6 35 14
Qatar 2022 Qualified as hosts Qualified as hosts
Canada Mexico United States 2026 To be determined To be determined
Total 1/23 - - - - - - - 108 50 22 36 178 110

Qatar 2022[]

Main article: 2022 FIFA World Cup


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References[]

  1. ^ Montague, James (October 9, 2017). "Qatar Has a World Cup Date. It Still Needs a World-Class Team" – via NYTimes.com.
  2. ^ Siu, Vince. "Qatar 2022: The Business and Politics Behind the World Cup Controversies". Bleacher Report.
  3. ^ "Why the 2022 World Cup in Qatar is a disgrace - Qatartroversy". Soccer Walks NYC.
  4. ^ "What the Asian Cup win means for Qatar, host of 2022 World Cup". www.aljazeera.com.
  5. ^ thao 247, Thể. "Qatar impressive performance facing Paraguay in Copa America 2019". Thể thao 247.
  6. ^ https://www.euronews.com/2019/06/20/late-zapata-goal-gives-colombia-1-0-win-over-qatar
  7. ^ "Sergio Agüero guides Argentina past Qatar to reach Copa América last eight". June 23, 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
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