‘Alcohol’ beer will not be sold in the stadium during FIFA World Cup 2022

Doha. World Cup organizers will ban the sale of all types of ‘alcoholic’ beer at eight stadiums used for the football tournament. A person aware of this decision told about it. This decision has come just two days before the start of the football match in Qatar. However, ‘non-alcoholic’ beer will be available to fans at 64 matches, this person said.

 

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the organizers have not yet announced the decision. Budweiser’s parent company AB InBev pays hundreds of millions of dollars for “exclusive” rights to sell the beer at each World Cup. The company’s association with FIFA began with the 1986 tournament.

 

When Qatar began the bidding process to host the World Cup, the country agreed to respect FIFA’s commercial partners and did so when signing the contract after winning the vote in 2010. At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, the host nation was forced to change a rule allowing the sale of alcohol.