This is how Qatar got the 2022 FIFA World Cup

The choice of Qatar as WC host

SVT Sport explains how it happened when Fifa made the controversial choice of Qatar as host country?

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See how it happened when Qatar was awarded the World Cup.

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Qatar - the country that bought the football World Cup

A newly made French documentary reveals new details about the game behind the election of Qatar - and how the then president of France had an important role.

Security during the WC

Diplomatic crisis center

SVT has revealed that supporters who may be arrested by the police or otherwise end up in trouble with the authorities in Qatar should receive help from a diplomatic crisis center.

Criticized World Cup apps

Anyone going to the World Cup in Qatar needs to download two apps to enter the country.

But experts in Norway warn that the apps contain large security holes.

The Soccer World Cup and the migrant workers

World Cup in Qatar - a story fringed with criticism

Watch SVT Sports' mini-documentary about Qatar, the Fifa scandal, exploited migrant workers, player protests, bribes and deaths.

The work of death in Nepal

SVT's Samir Abu Eid traveled to Nepal to meet guest workers who were involved in building stadiums and infrastructure around the World Cup - and relatives who lost their family members.

Qatar and LGBTQ issues

World Cup hotels say no to homosexuals

SVT was able, together with NRK and DR, to reveal that several of the hotels recommended by Fifa for the World Cup say no to homosexuals.

Banned from being gay

SVT Sport, in collaboration with NRK and DR, met Nas Mohammed – the first Qatari to come out as gay.

He now lives in the US and doesn't think he can ever move back.

Now he has also started a supporter's association for LGBTQ people in Qatar.

Qatar as a sports country

This is how Qatar has spread its name in the sports world

SVT Sport explains how Qatar has both stepped in as a sponsor to clubs in various sports - and organizer of major championships.

The women's national team that disappeared

SVT, together with ARD, NRK and DR, has also reviewed women's football in Qatar.

There is no real women's league in the country and the women's national team has not played a game in eight years.

See also the Agenda on "Distinguished WC in the desert".

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Qatar and the women's national team that disappeared