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Tomorrow (Sunday) the biggest football organization, the 2022 FIFA World Cup kicks off in Qatar. Host Qatar will play Ecuador in the opening match of the cup. The World Championship will end with the final match, which will take place on December 18.

The match, which will take place at the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, Qatar, kicks off at 19:00. The World Cup matches will be broadcast by TRT in Turkey. Matches can be watched on TRT 1 and TRT Sport channels.

There are 32 countries participating in the tournament, which Turkey did not qualify for. At the first stage the teams will compete in 8 different groups. After the group qualification, the rest of the qualifying matches leading to the final will begin on December 3rd.

The cup quarter-finals will take place on December 9-10, and the semi-finals on December 13-14. After the third place match on 17 December, the two teams that qualified for the final will face each other on 18 December.

Matches will be held at 8 different stadiums, one of which has been temporarily built.

After Qatar announced it would host the 2022 FIFA World Cup 12 years ago, it is said to have spent around $250-300 billion to date.

Sepp Blatter, who was FIFA president when Qatar won the World Cup 12 years ago, told a Swiss newspaper this week that it was a mistake to give the tournament to Qatar and that they made a mistake then.

As the tournament was awarded to Qatar, criticism was raised on many issues.

The World Cup, which will be held for the first time in an Arab country, kicks off in November for the first time this year due to the extremely hot summer weather in Qatar.

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