2022 World Cup: nine years since the XXII FIFA World Cup was awarded to Qatar

14 votes for Qatar, 8 for the United States: in the fourth round of voting, the FIFA Executive Committee awarded to Qatar the organization of the XXII FIFA World Cup, in Zurich (SUI) on Thursday 02/12/2010. Australia, Japan and South Korea were eliminated in previous rounds. On the same day, the international federation awarded Russia with the responsibility of hosting the 2018 World Cup.

"You will see, you will have the most beautiful World Cup, in which a fan could go to three matches in one day. In which World Cup you could see (attend) three matches in one day. For the fans, it will be Disneyland!," said, on 06/09/2019, Michel Platini (FRA), only voter to have publicly announced that he had opted for Qatar in the 2010 vote.

The suspicions and scandals that reached FIFA in general and the double ballot on 02/12/2010 in particular led the world body to modify its regulations. Its statutes now prohibit two World Cups from being awarded on the same day. Above all, it is now the full FIFA Congress and not the Executive Committee - which has become "Council" in the new statutes …