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FIFA 2022 Special news
December 21 , 2022
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- Italy, the four-time winners and reigning European champions, failed to qualify for a second successive World Cup for the first time in their history.
- Wales made their first appearance in 64 years – a record gap for a European team,
- Their only previous participation have been in 1958.
- The previous World Cup hosts, Russia, were disqualified from competing due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
- Egypt, Panama, Colombia, Peru, Iceland and Sweden, all of whom qualified for the 2018 World Cup, did not qualify for the 2022 tournament.
- Qatar is the only team making their debut in the FIFA World Cup.
- It became the first hosts to make their tournament debut since Italy in 1934.
- As a result, the 2022 tournament is the first World Cup in which none of the teams that earned a spot through qualification were making their debut.
- The Netherlands, Ecuador, Ghana, Cameroon and the United States returned to the tournament after missing the 2018 tournament.
- Canada returned after 36 years, their only prior appearance being in 1986.
- The 2026 World Cup will be held across three different countries, the United States, Canada and Mexico.
- Brazil is the country with the most titles and the only one to have competed in every competition.
- Brazil won five FIFA World Cup titles.
- Miroslav Klose, a German player who scored 16 goals in four seasons, owns the record for the most goals scored in FIFA World Cups (2002, 2006, 2010, 2014).
- Al Rihla is the first World Cup ball to be made exclusively with water-based inks and glues.
- Al Rihla was to be used in the event until the quarterfinals.
- Al Hilm' replaced Al Rihla FIFA WC 2022 semi-finals and final.
- Al Rihla means ‘the journey’, a reference to a travelogue written by Ibn Battuta, the 14th-century explorer.
- Pakistan produces more than 2/3rd of the world's footballs, with Sialkot being the hub of manufacturing.
- La’eeb was the Official Mascot for FIFA WC 2022.
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