FIFA World Cup 2022 Schedule: Full Match Fixtures
On 28 May 1928, the FIFA Congress in Amsterdam decided to stage a world championship itself. With Uruguay now two-time official football world champions and to celebrate their centenary of independence in 1930, FIFA named Uruguay as the host country of the inaugural World Cup tournament. The world's first international football match was a challenge match played in Glasgow in 1872 between Scotland and England. The opening match will be played on November 21 and the final on December 18, 2022. The matches in the group stage will be decided later when the draw has been made among the qualifiers. Russia's participation was further thrown into doubt after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. On 24 February, the three teams in Russia's qualifying path — Czech Republic, Poland, and Sweden — announced their unwillingness to play any matches in Russian territory. The boycott was extended on February 26 by Poland and Sweden to any qualifying games at all, and the same decision wa...