Chaired by FIFA President Blatter the FIFA Executive Committee on Friday completed its first meeting of the year at the Home of FIFA in Zurich.

 Based on the proposal of the Task Force for the International Match Calendar 2018-24 chaired by Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al Khalifa the executive decided that the 22nd edition of FIFA’s flagship event would be played in November and December 2022 with the final taking place on 18 December 2022  "Qatar’s National Day " and with the objective in principle of staging the tournament in 28 days.
 A working group will meet in due course to finalise the international match calendar for the "2019 to 2022 "cycle. 


Following a six-month consultation process FIFA’s Task Force for the International Match Calendar 2018-24 held its third and final meeting today in Doha, identifying end November|end December as the most viable period for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

 The proposed event dates have the full support of all six Confederations. The proposal will be discussed at the next meeting of the FIFA Executive Committee, scheduled to take place at the Home of FIFA in Zurich on 19 and 20 March 2015........