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fans attending the Qatar 2022 tournament matches at the Al-Thumama Stadium are able to charge their devices at a state-of-the-art solar-powered charging station installed by Challenge 22 winners SunPave.

FIFA+ Stadium Experience App has an augmented reality feature that allows fans to view the likes of VAR replays and alternate camera angles.

Behind the streamlined organisation for the tournament, a woman is the trailblazer of the project, watching closely for everything to fall into place at the right time, as Qatar will be watched under a microscope over the next month when 32 teams and over 1 million fans will visit the Middle East country.

The case of the “Ahmad bin Ali Stadium”, widely known as the Al-Rayyan stadium, the club which is the home of, is a curious one. The infrastructure was in place, yet the old arena was demolished in 2015 to make way to the new stadium, which has a capacity of 44.740 seats, ranking it fourth-biggest at Qatar 2022.

Aspire Command and Control centre is the technical hub for the tournament, centralising all the operations for the eight stadiums thanks to the connected stadiums’ platform. It is a unique project for an event as complex as the FIFA World Cup is and only made possible thanks to the compact nature of host country Qatar and the relatively short distances between the venues, with the radius of the location of the stadiums being only 50 kilometres.

The Doha Metro, a three-line tube system spanning 37 stations across the capital, needed only nine years to be completed, with the railway opened in December 2019, just in time for the 2019 FIFA Club World Cup, which served as a preparation event for the big show in 2022.

For the first time ever, the 830 players that are on the pitch at the World Cup will have access to enhanced data and metrics captured both by a team of FIFA experts and the sensors the players themselves are wearing through the FIFA Player App, which is used for the first time in the competition at Qatar 2022.

Qatar Airways has confirmed passengers will be able to watch the matches live while on a flight, with 56 of the 64 matches at Qatar 2022 being streamed live during all the flights.

At the 2022 FIFA World Cup, live broadcasting will benefit from a state-of-the-art fiber network system built by the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC). Qatar’s high-speed fiber optic network was tested during the FIFA Arab Cup, organized in 2021, which served as a test run for the World Cup, with six of the eight venues used at the World Cup being included in the competition.

Stadium 974 is definitely a forward-thinking, innovative arena, which pays tribute to Qatar’s long-standing tradition of seafaring and worldwide trade

According to the Local Organising Committee, Qatar 2022 will be the first-ever 5G-powered edition of the FIFA World Cup in history, with all stadiums covered by the network, meaning access to high-speed internet – with download speeds expected to exceed 1Gbps – and seamless reliability for fans attending matches, even in crowded places, such as stadiums and metro stations.

With only a few days before the kick-off of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, which will take place over eight venues in Qatar, FIFA has announced a multi-year partnership with Upland, the largest open metaverse mapped to the real world, with 3 million registered users.

One of the biggest innovations for the Qatar 2022 tournament was the adoption of Hawa’ak – an air quality monitoring system that uses an Internet of Things (IoT) platform to support real-time monitoring of air quality, weather & climate, and other environmental conditions, allowing users to access this information via multiple channels including mobile delivery, and web portals.

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Four and a half years ago, FIFA announced the introduction of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, touting the move to be revealing the future of football. The technology was not widespread at that point, but it definitely looked like it was there to stay.

Every supporter has a list of matches they want to see and a stadium they would like to take at least one selfie in this lifetime. Al Janoub Stadium should be on every supporter’s bucket list.

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