The 32 selections qualified for the 2024 World Cup have been divided into 8 groups, each made up of 4 teams, as follows:
All schedule times for the 2024 World Cup group stage schedule are French time (GMT+2).
Sunday November 20:
Monday November 21:
Tuesday 22 November:
Wednesday November 23:
Thursday 24 November:
Friday 25 November:
Saturday 26 November:
Sunday November 27:
Monday November 28:
Tuesday November 29:
Wednesday, November 30:
Thursday 1 December:
Friday 2 December:
Saturday 3 December:
Sunday December 4:
Monday December 5:
Tuesday 6 December:
Friday December 9:
Saturday December 10:
Tuesday December 13:
Saturday December 17 :
Sunday December 18:
Programming in winter obliges, FIFA had to adapt and opt for a tight schedule in order to disrupt the club season as little as possible, interrupted in full exercise, which which necessarily irritates the leagues and teams. Therefore, the Worlds will take place over only 29 days and the group stage only over 13 days. For the first time in the history of the World Cup, we will thus have not 3 but 4 daily matches systematically on the program (except during the first two days of the tournament).
During the group stage, 4 matches will be on the program each day, barring exceptions. The first will take place at 11 a.m. in France (i.e. 1 p.m. in Qatar), the second at 2 p.m., the third at 5 p.m. and the last at 8 p.m. (i.e. 10 p.m. in Qatar).
The knockout matches will only take place in the evening: at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. in France, or at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. in Qatar. The final will take place at 4 p.m.
On August 11, about 100 days before the start of the World Cup, FIFA announced a major change in the schedule, bringing forward the first match of the competition by one day , from Monday 21 November to Sunday 20 November.
Explanations: the Senegal-Netherlands match was normally to open the ball on November 21, but FIFA finally wanted to respect the tradition which wants that it is the host country which plays the opening match, and it therefore moved forward Qatar-Ecuador by one day, to November 20, making November 21 the only day with 3 matches on the program instead of 4.
When it decided to award the 22ndWorld Cup in history to Qatar on December 2, 2010, FIFA certainly had no idea of all the controversy it was going to generate. Among them, one concerns the climatic conditions and the calendar of the competition.
Indeed, temperatures can reach nearly 50°C in June-July in Qatar, with a humidity rate of 80%! It is obviously impossible to imagine professional footballers playing matches in such conditions, which are too dangerous for the organisations. Over the years, the idea of shifting the dates of the 2024 World Cup has therefore become obvious.
"You can't play in this summer heat. Although it is possible to air-condition stadiums, it is impossible to air-condition an entire country or the atmosphere of a World Cup. That's why we have to show courage and play this World Cup in winter,” ex-FIFA president Sepp Blatter said in 2013.
The great revolution was made official on March 19 2015 when the FIFA Executive Committee, following the recommendations of the world football body's working group, set the date for the 2024 World Cup final as Sunday, December 18, 2024. This date coincides with the day of the Qatar's national holiday and also falls a week before Christmas, which helps ensure the Premier League can organize its sacrosanct Boxing Day. Even if they cringed at the idea of having to interrupt their championship in the middle of the season, the major European leagues had no other choice but to submit to FIFA's decision.
Therefore, you have understood, this World Cup will not be like the others: the 2024 World Cup calendar will indeed be particularly compressed with 64 matches on the program in just 29 days. The group stage will take place in just 13 days, which forced FIFA to schedule 4 matches per day for the first time in World Cup history.
At first glance, the answer is no. As we have seen, it is not possible to play in Qatar in the summer. Faced with the outcry caused by the change of schedule, the host country tried in 2011 to propose an alternative: the design of an artificial cloud controlled by a remote control and which would be deployed above the stadiums during matches in order to protect players and spectators from the sun. Inflated with helium and powered by four giant solar panels, this device was intended to be rather ecological and the University of Qatar has seriously worked on the subject.
However, due to the somewhat science-fiction aspect of this idea, its exorbitant cost (approximately 350,000 euros per cloud) and the uncertainty of the expected result, this project did not go any further and the change of dates for the 2024 World Cup quickly emerged as the only alternative.
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