# Qatar reverses stadium beer sales two days before the World Cup

Date: 2022

## The fact

On 18 November 2022 Qatar reversed a plan to sell beer at World Cup stadiums, two days before opening. Tamim’s government owned the social-policy U-turn.

## Context

FIFA had announced sales. He set conservative social rules. Workers and fans met the change. It is a social-policy instrument, not a labour-death file.

World Cup opening is 20 November. Labour files are other dates.

The emir of Qatar is head of state and, in practice, of government under the 2004 constitution as applied. He does not write FIFA statutes, UN Security Council resolutions, Hamas military orders, or ILO conventions by himself.

## Evidence and sources

FIFA carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [social cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion) and political polarisation: a completed last-minute social-policy U-turn is a conservative-rules instrument with fan-and-sponsor cost. It is not a labour finding.

## What is established and what is not

Established: an 18 November 2022 reversal of stadium beer sales, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later sponsor-revenue coefficient, or that the U-turn caused labour deaths.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

FIFA had announced sales. Vendors had prepared. He did not write the brewing.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Qatar reverses stadium beer sales two days before the World Cup, not a later speech about Qatar reverses stadium beer sales two days before the World Cup.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Qatar reverses stadium beer sales two days before the World Cup on 2022-11-18 is not a licence to treat every later FIFA communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Qatar reverses stadium beer sales two days before the World Cup into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to His government set the social rule. FIFA had announced sales. Vendors had prepared. He did not write the brewing. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Tamim bin Hamad Al: https://factrail.ai/people/tamim-bin-hamad-al-thani

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/qatar-world-cup-beer-ban-stadiums-2022-11-18/
- https://www.fifa.com/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/qa-beer-ban-2022