2022 World Cup

The 2022 World Cup was the 22nd edition of the tournament and the first held in the Arab world, staged in Qatar from 20 November to 18 December 2022. It produced one of the greatest finals of all time: Argentina beat France 3-3 (4-2 on penalties) to lift their third world title, with Lionel Messi finally crowning his career on the biggest stage.

This page covers the full 2022 World Cup statistics — groups, knockout scores and the final. It was the last 32-team tournament; the 2026 World Cup expands to 48 teams across the USA, Canada and Mexico. See where 2022 sits in the wider picture on our FIFA World Cup final matches list and progress chart.

Football World Cup 2022 Statistics. The 2022 FIFA World Cup was the 22nd edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international men’s association football championship contested by the national teams of the member associations of FIFA.

The 2022 World Cup Matches started in Qatar on Sunday 20th November 2022. This was the first World Cup ever to be held in the Arab world and the first in a Muslim-majority country, and the second World Cup held entirely in Asia after the 2002 tournament in South Korea and Japan.

The 2022 World Cup tournament was the last to involve 32 teams. FIFA World cup 2026 will increase to 48 teams and will be held in United States, Mexico and Canada. The 2022 World Cup was played in a reduced time-frame of around 28 days, with the Final being held on 18 December 2022, Qatar’s National Day.

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