2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar - UEFA Qualifiers

[Maidak]

23.5 million people have requested to buy World Cup tickets in Qatar, according to the FIFA website! Most of them expressed interest in watching Argentina matches. Messi's influence on the pitch is quite obvious, the man is way too influential. He has more influence than anyone could imagine. Argentina's fans have always been amazing. Messi would still be the reason for those people to watch Argentina.

The pandemic effects, including the financial world crisis were fastly dissipated, it seems... Tickets for games of world cup in Qatar are approximately 30% more expensive compared to the last world cup of 2018, while for the final games the increasement hits astonishing 45%! That can mean two things: fiat inflation is out of control, what means money isn't worthing anything along the years, or the pandemic plus post-pandemic must have been a profitable period of time for determined segments of our socities. For the average citizen, there is no other option besides sticking with the old and good television to watch the games. At least it's almost free.

I've read that most tickets so far have been sold to fans living in Qatar, the United States, England, Mexico and the United Arab Emirates.
Prices really are absurdly high, but I believe the main reason for this is because the games are being held in Qatar, where everything is absurdly more expensive than the average in the rest of the country.
As was FIFA's ticket policy for the 2010, 2014 and 2018 editions of the World Cup, residents of the host country will benefit exclusively from a special price category, but does anyone happen to know what that special price is?

Well, I have no idea about what the special price is. But there has to be something special for a lot of people to buy tickets at this amount.  and it's also true that the people there are a lot richer than the other countries. So it's quite normal for the people there to spend money of a certain amount on tickets for FIFA world cup matches. With the special discount, they must have gone crazy,,, lol .

[rmhuntley]

Do you all remember laser episodes on FIFA qualification match between Egypt and Senegal? FIFA punished Senegal's football organization for fan disorder during the match. Action quite justified as they have abused fellow opponents for a long time. Laser that is being used by so many countries should have fined but nothing happens to them. Otherwise FIFA continuous to be the joke association for others.

it should no longer happen in the world of football where the audience shines a laser on the players who are playing which they shouldn't use in the Senegal vs Egypt match in the African zone world cup playoffs.but decisive steps were immediately taken by FIFA and CAF by imposing sanctions.to the Senegalese fans who threw a tantrum in the match and at the same time tarnished football which has been so sporting and the steps taken by FIFA and CAF are the right steps so that this does not happen again in football competitions.especially in African countries.

[SatoPrincess]

Do you all remember laser episodes on FIFA qualification match between Egypt and Senegal? FIFA punished Senegal's football organization for fan disorder during the match. Action quite justified as they have abused fellow opponents for a long time. Laser that is being used by so many countries should have fined but nothing happens to them. Otherwise FIFA continuous to be the joke association for others.

The truth is any team would take a $200k fine + a game without their fans in exchange for a spot in the FIFA world cup to be honest. It’s a shame though that Senegal got away with this one. The fixture should've been replayed in a neutral venue. Although, some fans would argue that Senegal only gave Egypt a taste of their own medicine but we have to agree that is unacceptable.

[Juggy777]

Do you all remember laser episodes on FIFA qualification match between Egypt and Senegal? FIFA punished Senegal's football organization for fan disorder during the match. Action quite justified as they have abused fellow opponents for a long time. Laser that is being used by so many countries should have fined but nothing happens to them. Otherwise FIFA continuous to be the joke association for others.

The truth is any team would take a $200k fine + a game without their fans in exchange for a spot in the FIFA world cup to be honest. It’s a shame though that Senegal got away with this one. The fixture should've been replayed in a neutral venue. Although, some fans would argue that Senegal only gave Egypt a taste of their own medicine but we have to agree that is unacceptable.

@SatoPrincess had FIFA gone in for a replay it would have created complications, because each time a team would be losing then their fans would try and disrupt the game, and hope that their team would get a rematch hence rematch was never going to be feasible for FIFA.

However what I liked was FIFA has sent out a stern message and I hope that from now on such incidents won’t be repeated, and if they yet happen then FIFA should threaten to ban that country because that’s the only way these incidents can end.

[Iranus]

Do you all remember laser episodes on FIFA qualification match between Egypt and Senegal? FIFA punished Senegal's football organization for fan disorder during the match. Action quite justified as they have abused fellow opponents for a long time. Laser that is being used by so many countries should have fined but nothing happens to them. Otherwise FIFA continuous to be the joke association for others.

The truth is any team would take a $200k fine + a game without their fans in exchange for a spot in the FIFA world cup to be honest. It’s a shame though that Senegal got away with this one. The fixture should've been replayed in a neutral venue. Although, some fans would argue that Senegal only gave Egypt a taste of their own medicine but we have to agree that is unacceptable.

@SatoPrincess had FIFA gone in for a replay it would have created complications, because each time a team would be losing then their fans would try and disrupt the game, and hope that their team would get a rematch hence rematch was never going to be feasible for FIFA.
However what I liked was FIFA has sent out a stern message and I hope that from now on such incidents won’t be repeated, and if they yet happen then FIFA should threaten to ban that country because that’s the only way these incidents can end.

I think the punishment for the fans who do such things can be a great option to avoid this type of situation in the future. and the punishment cannot be just something like jail for five days. they have to make an example out of someone so that no one even dares to repeat these things on a football field. something should be done so that people feel like doing such things are not worth taking the risk of facing such punishment.

[Pokapoka124]

23.5 million people have requested to buy World Cup tickets in Qatar, according to the FIFA website! Most of them expressed interest in watching Argentina matches. Messi's influence on the pitch is quite obvious, the man is way too influential. He has more influence than anyone could imagine. Argentina's fans have always been amazing. Messi would still be the reason for those people to watch Argentina.

The figure of Leonel Messi is of course a very big attraction in the Argentine national team, because Messi is now 35 years old, most likely this year's world cup will be Messi's last world cup, it is certain that all Messi fans will buy tickets to watch the last game of their star player Because this year is also the last year for Ronaldo to play in the world cup, maybe this year's world cup ticket sales are the most ticket purchases in all world cups.

Lionel Messi and Christiano Ronaldo are strong personalities in not just football but sports in general, they are some sort of superstars in the game little wonder why their participation in the competition would influence the sales of tickets. I think the world cup on its own attracts people irrespective of the players involved. There was a time people would worry about how the prestige of the UEFA Champion's League will be affected prestige without Messi and Ronaldo rivalry but in recent years it has faze out. The truth is the world cup itself supersedes any individual player.

[SatoPrincess]

Do you all remember laser episodes on FIFA qualification match between Egypt and Senegal? FIFA punished Senegal's football organization for fan disorder during the match. Action quite justified as they have abused fellow opponents for a long time. Laser that is being used by so many countries should have fined but nothing happens to them. Otherwise FIFA continuous to be the joke association for others.

The truth is any team would take a $200k fine + a game without their fans in exchange for a spot in the FIFA world cup to be honest. It’s a shame though that Senegal got away with this one. The fixture should've been replayed in a neutral venue. Although, some fans would argue that Senegal only gave Egypt a taste of their own medicine but we have to agree that is unacceptable.

@SatoPrincess had FIFA gone in for a replay it would have created complications, because each time a team would be losing then their fans would try and disrupt the game, and hope that their team would get a rematch hence rematch was never going to be feasible for FIFA.

However what I liked was FIFA has sent out a stern message and I hope that from now on such incidents won’t be repeated, and if they yet happen then FIFA should threaten to ban that country because that’s the only way these incidents can end.

For me, Egypt is as guilty as Senegal were because they are just irresponsible with using laser to disturb opponents. I’m against violence and do not support how  Senegal dealt with them this year. Denying them the AFCON trophy and depriving them for going to this summer World Cup.

[joker_josue]

Lionel Messi and Christiano Ronaldo are strong personalities in not just football but sports in general, they are some sort of superstars in the game little wonder why their participation in the competition would influence the sales of tickets. I think the world cup on its own attracts people irrespective of the players involved. There was a time people would worry about how the prestige of the UEFA Champion's League will be affected prestige without Messi and Ronaldo rivalry but in recent years it has faze out. The truth is the world cup itself supersedes any individual player.

I think that the non-presence of these athletes affects the media more than anything else. This is because the event itself is not affected, and fans will continue to get involved in the party. At the World Cup, you are expected to see the best teams and the best players. If some of them fail it's always a small shock, but it doesn't affect the competition.

Another curiosity, for example in this case Messi vs Ronaldo, they never took comfort in official matches for the national teams. The last meeting of the two countries was in 2014, and it was a friendly one.

[Sithara007]

Category 4 (CAT 4) refers to the tickets costs for Qatar citizens. As we can see, qataris have access to a huge discount in every stages of the cup.
The prices are showed in Qatari Riyal, the local fiat currency. For better calculating the costs we can use 3,64 QAR = 1 USD.

I am not surprised by this, and such discounts are given to the citizens of the host nation every time they stage the world cup. And in case of Qatar, it should not matter much. Do you know why? Because Qatar do have only around 300,000 citizens (and all of them may not be interested in watching football). Millions of tickets are available for sale and the number of tickets is greater than the number of Qatari citizens (only around 10% of the population of Qatar is made up of nationals). Some of the stadiums in Qatar can accommodate the entire Qatari national population in one go.

[herurist]

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Category 4 (CAT 4) refers to the tickets costs for Qatar citizens. As we can see, qataris have access to a huge discount in every stages of the cup.
The prices are showed in Qatari Riyal, the local fiat currency. For better calculating the costs we can use 3,64 QAR = 1 USD.

Wow, pretty funny! Discounts on tickets for some games more than 90%. I don’t even know how to evaluate it - whether it’s a gift for the citizens of Qatar (who seem to be far from poor and have a high standard of living) or as a robbery from foreign fans, for whom the prices are quite high. By the way, as I understand it, all tickets are nominal and no speculation will be possible?

This is probably something quite normal for the host country even though the discounts are too crazy to look at
Reflecting on the previous world cup where Russian citizens got a 50% discount and now Qatari citizens with abundant national wealth and the life habits of their citizens are quite unreasonable maybe this is a little not too much of a problem with the discount

[m_nief]

Category 4 (CAT 4) refers to the tickets costs for Qatar citizens. As we can see, qataris have access to a huge discount in every stages of the cup.
The prices are showed in Qatari Riyal, the local fiat currency. For better calculating the costs we can use 3,64 QAR = 1 USD.

I am not surprised by this, and such discounts are given to the citizens of the host nation every time they stage the world cup. And in case of Qatar, it should not matter much. Do you know why? Because Qatar do have only around 300,000 citizens (and all of them may not be interested in watching football). Millions of tickets are available for sale and the number of tickets is greater than the number of Qatari citizens (only around 10% of the population of Qatar is made up of nationals). Some of the stadiums in Qatar can accommodate the entire Qatari national population in one go.

Learning with Qatar Stars League as domestic league on Qatar looks not really interested by several fans with not fully watch by fans on every home match, actually not guarantee when have away match with less full fans watch on stadium. I think will impact later when their national country play on world cup how ever much bonus giving but really not interested with football match. I think Qatar dominance by richest person and no doubt they will difficult how to pay expensive ticket on world cup, but here how much interested and crazy fans to support their country on world cup.

[dezoel]

Lionel Messi and Christiano Ronaldo are strong personalities in not just football but sports in general, they are some sort of superstars in the game little wonder why their participation in the competition would influence the sales of tickets. I think the world cup on its own attracts people irrespective of the players involved. There was a time people would worry about how the prestige of the UEFA Champion's League will be affected prestige without Messi and Ronaldo rivalry but in recent years it has faze out. The truth is the world cup itself supersedes any individual player.

There is no doubt World Cup is having his own attraction for globe and having some star players are bringing double doze for fans because is one off prestigious competition of sport in globe with only 32 quality teams is great achievement for all qualifiers.

With now, we have European dominance in this competition for last two decades as four different European Countries as champions with only Germany is able to have four time on winning pole with first, second and third spot two time is amazing achievement from them hopefully now we will have some tough challenge from South America as they are also good even quality is still with European teams because I am feeling they are still in very good shape and having enough resources for their dominance, but we will watch some very entertaining games from these top ranked teams in this event.

[blatchcorn]

I am not surprised by this, and such discounts are given to the citizens of the host nation every time they stage the world cup. And in case of Qatar, it should not matter much. Do you know why? Because Qatar do have only around 300,000 citizens (and all of them may not be interested in watching football). Millions of tickets are available for sale and the number of tickets is greater than the number of Qatari citizens (only around 10% of the population of Qatar is made up of nationals). Some of the stadiums in Qatar can accommodate the entire Qatari national population in one go.

Apart from that Qatar is rich countyr. There GDP per capita (current US$) in 2020 is 50k$ according to world Bank data , so giving discount to there citizens is not a big deal for Qatar.
It's not not people of Qatar who will be there to watch the World Cup but spectators from entire globe will come to see that event and that's where Qatar will be targeting to earn profit.

[LUCKMCFLY]

Do you all remember laser episodes on FIFA qualification match between Egypt and Senegal? FIFA punished Senegal's football organization for fan disorder during the match. Action quite justified as they have abused fellow opponents for a long time. Laser that is being used by so many countries should have fined but nothing happens to them. Otherwise FIFA continuous to be the joke association for others.

The truth is any team would take a $200k fine + a game without their fans in exchange for a spot in the FIFA world cup to be honest. It’s a shame though that Senegal got away with this one. The fixture should've been replayed in a neutral venue. Although, some fans would argue that Senegal only gave Egypt a taste of their own medicine but we have to agree that is unacceptable.

I really don't understand what FIFA's reason was for not repeating the game, it is known that the laser thing is one of the dirtiest things I've seen in football, I don't agree that these things happen, which sometimes I answer myself is that in that game Senegal had a slight advantage over Egypt, perhaps the physical condition of the Senegalese players was much higher than that of the Egyptians, but in the same way it is not justified, although for the World Cup I think that the people who discover these types of acts should be banned for life from not letting them pass to any soccer stadium.

I am not surprised by this, and such discounts are given to the citizens of the host nation every time they stage the world cup. And in case of Qatar, it should not matter much. Do you know why? Because Qatar do have only around 300,000 citizens (and all of them may not be interested in watching football). Millions of tickets are available for sale and the number of tickets is greater than the number of Qatari citizens (only around 10% of the population of Qatar is made up of nationals). Some of the stadiums in Qatar can accommodate the entire Qatari national population in one go.

Apart from that Qatar is rich countyr. There GDP per capita (current US$) in 2020 is 50k$ according to world Bank data , so giving discount to there citizens is not a big deal for Qatar.
It's not not people of Qatar who will be there to watch the World Cup but spectators from entire globe will come to see that event and that's where Qatar will be targeting to earn profit.

YES, you are absolutely right, there are many fans worldwide who do whatever it takes to be able to enjoy the World Cup, they do not mind lending money or selling anything, from South America many fans go and find a way to get to any country to support their selection and although their national team is not there, they will live the experience of a World Cup, you just have to see the Argentines and Brazilians how they do everything to support their teams, they do not care about anything, they simply live the world.

[asus09]

I am not surprised by this, and such discounts are given to the citizens of the host nation every time they stage the world cup. And in case of Qatar, it should not matter much. Do you know why? Because Qatar do have only around 300,000 citizens (and all of them may not be interested in watching football). Millions of tickets are available for sale and the number of tickets is greater than the number of Qatari citizens (only around 10% of the population of Qatar is made up of nationals). Some of the stadiums in Qatar can accommodate the entire Qatari national population in one go.

Apart from that Qatar is rich countyr. There GDP per capita (current US$) in 2020 is 50k$ according to world Bank data , so giving discount to there citizens is not a big deal for Qatar.
It's not not people of Qatar who will be there to watch the World Cup but spectators from entire globe will come to see that event and that's where Qatar will be targeting to earn profit.

Qatar is the richest country and only has a population of less than 3 million, even the state of Qatar pays their workers wages of 350k per hour, even though the government does not give discounts to its citizens, I am very sure their citizens are not angry, the Qatari government only wants to profit from immigrants , they managed to host the world cup, their goal is to show the world that their country is a safe country and none of their citizens live suffering,

[strunberg]

I am not surprised by this, and such discounts are given to the citizens of the host nation every time they stage the world cup. And in case of Qatar, it should not matter much. Do you know why? Because Qatar do have only around 300,000 citizens (and all of them may not be interested in watching football). Millions of tickets are available for sale and the number of tickets is greater than the number of Qatari citizens (only around 10% of the population of Qatar is made up of nationals). Some of the stadiums in Qatar can accommodate the entire Qatari national population in one go.

Apart from that Qatar is rich countyr. There GDP per capita (current US$) in 2020 is 50k$ according to world Bank data , so giving discount to there citizens is not a big deal for Qatar.
It's not not people of Qatar who will be there to watch the World Cup but spectators from entire globe will come to see that event and that's where Qatar will be targeting to earn profit.

Qatar is the richest country and only has a population of less than 3 million, even the state of Qatar pays their workers wages of 350k per hour, even though the government does not give discounts to its citizens, I am very sure their citizens are not angry, the Qatari government only wants to profit from immigrants , they managed to host the world cup, their goal is to show the world that their country is a safe country and none of their citizens live suffering,

they used it to attract local viewer on this huge event, its not funny if world cup even meanwhile Qatar's citizen not interested with it. they have alot money and everything could do by this, even some owner of footbclub come from this country. this international event that will alot tourist from abroad and helpfull in future they come here again while mesmerized by the beauty of the city

[ropyu1978]

The Qatar world cup will take place on November 21, and there are already 32 teams participating in this 4th annual competition, it is a pity that Mohammad was wrong to not get a ticket to the Qatar world cup, because he was defeated by Senegal in the play offs, in this year's cup I I will place a bet for England, even though England have never lifted the world cup trophy, but I will still place a bet for England.

[Juggy777]

I am not surprised by this, and such discounts are given to the citizens of the host nation every time they stage the world cup. And in case of Qatar, it should not matter much. Do you know why? Because Qatar do have only around 300,000 citizens (and all of them may not be interested in watching football). Millions of tickets are available for sale and the number of tickets is greater than the number of Qatari citizens (only around 10% of the population of Qatar is made up of nationals). Some of the stadiums in Qatar can accommodate the entire Qatari national population in one go.

Apart from that Qatar is rich countyr. There GDP per capita (current US$) in 2020 is 50k$ according to world Bank data , so giving discount to there citizens is not a big deal for Qatar.
It's not not people of Qatar who will be there to watch the World Cup but spectators from entire globe will come to see that event and that's where Qatar will be targeting to earn profit.

Qatar is the richest country and only has a population of less than 3 million, even the state of Qatar pays their workers wages of 350k per hour, even though the government does not give discounts to its citizens, I am very sure their citizens are not angry, the Qatari government only wants to profit from immigrants , they managed to host the world cup, their goal is to show the world that their country is a safe country and none of their citizens live suffering,

they used it to attract local viewer on this huge event, its not funny if world cup even meanwhile Qatar's citizen not interested with it. they have alot money and everything could do by this, even some owner of footbclub come from this country. this international event that will alot tourist from abroad and helpfull in future they come here again while mesmerized by the beauty of the city

I feel the locals will flock to the stands because all big player’s will be playing in the World Cup, plus the World Cup would be hyped up there hence I’m sure that they would like to see the player’s in action.

The Qatar world cup will take place on November 21, and there are already 32 teams participating in this 4th annual competition, it is a pity that Mohammad was wrong to not get a ticket to the Qatar world cup, because he was defeated by Senegal in the play offs, in this year's cup I I will place a bet for England, even though England have never lifted the world cup trophy, but I will still place a bet for England.

I strongly see England as one of the contenders to win this World Cup, but they’ll need to further improve their performances and I hope that Southgate can finally figure his best 11 rather than constantly rotating his player’s.

[joker_josue]

The Qatar world cup will take place on November 21, and there are already 32 teams participating in this 4th annual competition, it is a pity that Mohammad was wrong to not get a ticket to the Qatar world cup, because he was defeated by Senegal in the play offs, in this year's cup I I will place a bet for England, even though England have never lifted the world cup trophy, but I will still place a bet for England.

I am also of the opinion that England will go far in this World Cup. They have been doing an excellent job lately, and they showed it during the last Euro2020.

It will be difficult for them to win, but I believe they will be able to go far and maybe reach the final. If they go to the final and the coach doesn't invent much, they can win.

Of course, I would prefer Portugal to win  , but I doubt it.

[muratsink]

The Qatar world cup will take place on November 21, and there are already 32 teams participating in this 4th annual competition, it is a pity that Mohammad was wrong to not get a ticket to the Qatar world cup, because he was defeated by Senegal in the play offs, in this year's cup I I will place a bet for England, even though England have never lifted the world cup trophy, but I will still place a bet for England.

The world cup will start in a few months where Qatar will act as the host in the four-year event which is planned to be held in November-December, with the appointment of cataracts as the host will add to the euphoria of the match considering that the word is a country that has very mature preparations with facilities. which they have at the moment.but it's a shame that Europe's top players have missed out on a quadrennial event like Salah and Haaland and many other stars who will definitely not feature in Qatar this year, I feel that the absence of star players doesn't reduce the euphoria of the trophy. the world this year considering that there are still many European and world star players such as Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo who will participate in defending their respective national teams where they will make Qatar the last world cup in their career.