Will also mean that this World Cup will be the last to be played in summer in the Northern Hemisphere for 8 years.
Also, European leagues might have to start their seasons in July instead of August and end a bit later than mid May, don’t think they’ll be too happy about this.
Look for me, I think that this will have a substantial impact on the Hyundai A-League Season for 2022-23 as well as Asian Soccer Leagues. Hyundai A-League will more likely to be shortened to 12 weeks in mid-year. This will have some impacts to AFL, NRL, Super Rugby matches. I’d suggest that some A-League games might be played in secondary venues like Darwin, Cairns, Townsville, Launceston, Hobart, Wollongong, Gold Coast, etc. The 2023 Asian Cup will be impacted and I suspect that it may be shuffled to November 2023.
Qatar Airways will again sponsor the 2022 FIFA World Cup, as it is their national airline.
For me, moving from June to November is very controversial. This will be the first time in FIFA World Cup History not to have the World Cup in June-July Qatar’s weather during mid-year is extremely hot and humid with temperatures exceeding 50 degrees Celsius. In November-December, average maximum temperatures will range from 24-30 degrees Celsius.
Here in America, it will conflict with the NFL, Fox will need to change their NFL schedule for the World Cup.
How?
They’re celebrating over at NRL and AFL HQ. CA won’t be happy. Can’t please everyone.
Pretty much why Fox got handed 2026 World Cup for same price as 2022
Belgium has received their Bronze Medal match following a 2-0 win over England at St Petersburg. The crowd at the stadium was around 64 400 people.
Not really. MLS kept playing through and there were several professional clubs playing friendly matches during the cup. Considering the A-League didn’t really contribute many players to the Socceroos and other teams, there’s need for a massive break, if any.
No one watches the A league or really cares for it anyway. It’s been dying a slow death. It won’t grow at all. It reached its peak a few years ago. They can run the A league during the World Cup and no one would notice it was still running.
The A League is just about as interesting as watching paint dry on the wall.
Last season, tv ratings for all home and away season A league matches were very dire. With The Fox/Ten agreement deal, the ratings was much lower on ONE than Fox.
The crowd numbers were small
Easily fixed - get rid of the bozos in charge, put some decent football and business people in there and everyone will be wetting themselves again. Especially when the mighty Newcastle Jets do a better job of putting Lawrence Thomas six feet under, along with the f**kwits who fucked up the Grand Final. 
Last season, it had an average attendance of 10,671. The previous season (2016-17), it had 12,294. I don’t know why the average attendances are dwindling every passing year.
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Because it’s on fox. No chance for the sport to grow.
If the A League continues on FOX Sports for many more years, it will die a slow death, all games need to be on FTA on Nine or Ten for the code to survive in the long term.
Just like Supercars and Rugby Union is all but finished also on the “care factor” side of things.
that has got to hurt, scoring an owl goal in the final … and now its raining.
I’m really enjoying this final. I think France are going to win the match, but I hope the underdogs end up winning.
It’s over, France too strong, at least Australia can say we lost to the 2018 World Champs.
Croatia are tired, you can see that as France are running over them and magically not falling over looking for free kicks.
