# Qatar opens the FIFA World Cup

Date: 2022

## The fact

On 20 November 2022 Tamim opened the FIFA World Cup in Doha, a completed tournament after a decade of kafala construction.

## Context

FIFA ran the tournament. He opened it as emir. Last-minute alcohol rules changed. He did not write FIFA’s disciplinary code.

Labour deaths 2021 reporting and 2010 award are neighbouring cost files.

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 industrial-policy spectacle: a completed World Cup is a soft-power and services instrument. Labour harm stays on other dates.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 20 November 2022 World Cup opening in Doha, independently reported.

Not established: that labour deaths were thereby undone, or a unique later GDP coefficient from kickoff.

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 ran matches. Contractors had already built. Labour files remain other rows.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Qatar opens the FIFA World Cup, not a later speech about Qatar opens the FIFA World Cup.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Qatar opens the FIFA World Cup on 2022-11-20 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 opens the FIFA World Cup into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He opened and hosted as emir. FIFA ran matches. Contractors had already built. Labour files remain other rows. 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

- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism
- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/qatar-world-cup-opens-2022-11-20/
- https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/mens/worldcup/qatar2022

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/qa-world-cup-2022