How much did it cost to organize the World Cup in Qatar?

For hundreds of millions of fans around the world, this November is the month most awaited of the last four years. With the match between Qatar and Ecuador, on Saturday 20th the ad Al Khor the twenty-second edition of world Championships of football, the first to be played in winter and his debut as an organizer for an Arab country. At the time of the assignment, in 2010, there were many criticisms moved by fans and professionals towards FIFA for the choice of a country with little history and football culture behind it which, due to the climate, would not have allowed to play the tournament in summer.

Thanks to its oil-based economy, Qatar was able to invest very important figures in these twelve years, building from scratch the structures necessary to host an event of this magnitude with ambition declared to revolutionize the experience of the fans e to open the country to the western world.

It is estimated that they will be a million and a half the fans who will come to the emirate from every corner of the globe to watch the matches. To them must be added the various delegations, players, staff and professionals. If from the receptive point of view, however, Qatar is a country now accustomed to meeting the needs of increasingly numerous tourists, the real challenge of the organizing committee and the government was to to achieve stages quite capacious and adapted to the maximum world competition of a much-followed sport.

In 2010, none of the Qatari structures existing would have been in Rule with the rules laid down by Fifa to host a world championship match. The National Supreme Council therefore launched a large infrastructural project for the development of the territory: not only stadiums, but also theexpansion of motorway networks and railways and the construction, among others, of a airport and of subwayfor an estimated total figure of over 200 billion euros.