# About Qatar's 2022 World Cup

On November 21st of 2022, thirty-two nations will kick off their participation in the biggest sports event around the globe.

The eyes of the planet will be fixed at Qatar's 2022 World Cup for almost a month, with the culmination of finding the best soccer team in the grand finale, scheduled for December 18th of 2022 (check the [tournament's fixtures and schedule](https://digitalhub.fifa.com/m/6a616c6cf19bc57a/original/FWC-2022-Match-Schedule.pdf)).

It is anticipated that over one million spectators will attend the tournament’s 64 matches, and the competition will reach a global in-home television audience of over 3 billion people, with more than one billion fans tuning in to watch the final match.

This is the event with the biggest betting market in the world. [According to FIFA](https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/mens/worldcup/2018russia/news/136bn-betting-turnover-and-no-suspicious-betting-behaviour-at-russia-2018), the average match during Rusia's 2018 World Cup saw a betting turnover of €2.1 billion ($2.4 billion); a whopping €136 billion ($148 billion) in bets through the length of the tournament.

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