Think Football 2022: "Competition formats for making football more attractive" (09:50, 04/10/2022)

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Qatar 2022 : Lusail Stadium, stadium for the final, the last match of a 32-team World Cup - ©  FIFA

"Competition formats for making football more attractive" is one of the themes of a debate at Think Football 2022, whose morning session "A game-changing World Cup!" will be dedicated to Qatar 2022, in the auditorium at the French Football Federation (FFF) headquarters in Paris (FRA), on Tuesday 04/10/2022. The event will be held entirely in French.

To provide an insight on this topic, a discussion will be held at 09.50 CET, moderated by Laurent Fellous, a sports lawyer and sports agent, featuring:
• Olivier Létang, president of LOSC Lille (Ligue 1 Uber Eats)
• Jérôme Perlemuter, general secretary, World Leagues Forum
• Sylvain Kastendeuch, co-president of the UNFP or David Terrier, vice-president of the UNFP
• Pierre Ferracci, president of Paris FC (Ligue 2 BKT)

The 22nd World Cup, that will be held in Qatar from 20/11 to 18/12/2022, will be the seventh and last to feature 32 participating teams (1998-2022). The next one, in 2026, will have 48 teams (with 80 matches instead of 64, including 60 in the United States, 10 in Mexico and 10 in Canada).

Is this a good thing, given that FIFA…

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Qatar 2022 : Lusail Stadium, stadium for the final, the last match of a 32-team World Cup - ©  FIFA

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