Budweiser, the principal beer sponsor for FIFA over the last three decades, received a stadium ban on beers from Qatar at the World Cup. Kicking off in just days, there is now a ban on the sale of beer to the majority of guests. According to the Financial Times, alcohol is not banned for everybody, […]

Qatar is moving beer stands to less prominent areas inside World Cup stadiums. Tournament organizers have made the move just days before the start of the competition in Qatar. The decision has affected all eight stadiums hosting the World Cup. Alcohol sales at the upcoming World Cup have been a contentious issue for months. Under […]

Doha (AFP) – Facing a bank of screens that look like NASA mission command, technicians counting down to the World Cup in Qatar control the temperature,  gates, 15,000 cameras and much more in the eight stadiums. The Aspire control and command centre will monitor all stadiums at once, as Qatar pulls out all the technical […]

Doha (AFP) – Qatar warned the general public Sunday against the use of unauthorised vehicle license plates with the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 logo, after it auctioned off dozens of number plates for hundreds of thousands of dollars. "It is prohibited to copy and install the World Cup logo on the vehicle number plate," […]

Doha (AFP) – A cartoon series on an alien who crash-lands in World Cup host Qatar aims to ease a culture clash between more than a million foreign football fans and the conservative state's residents. Like the arriving fans, Kawkabani, star of the series launched by Qatar's first animation studio, has to learn Arabic pronunciation, […]

Doha (AFP) – Thousands of migrant labourers, many of whom have worked on Qatar's new stadiums, have formed long queues to see the World Cup trophy that will be contested in the Gulf state this year. The price of tickets means that most of those who waited up to two hours for the chance of […]