FIFA begins media accreditation for Qatar World cup
Ahead of the forthcoming Qatar 2022 World Cup, World soccer ruling body FIFA has flagged off media accredition close to seven months soccer show piece.
Deadline for media and non-right holders to submit request has been fixed for August 15 2022.
Access to the media accreditation form according to the soccer body, requires a unique control key. FIFA’s member associations have received a quota of written press and photographer accreditations for distribution to their national media organisations and representatives.
Once a media representative has received a control key from your member association or media organisation, they will be able to apply for accreditation via the FIFA Media Hub .
Non-rights holders (NRHs) are radio and television companies without broadcasting rights for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. NRHs will be able to apply for media accreditation without a control key. It should be stressed that the number of NRH accreditations will be very limited and that there will be no access to stadiums on matchdays.
FIFA TV will be directly responsible for the accreditation of Media Rights Licensees (rights-holding television and radio stations). The FIFA Broadcaster Servicing team is in regular contact with the Media Rights Licensees and will inform them directly about the accreditation procedure and other accreditation-related matters.
The FIFA World Cup 2022 will be the most compact edition of the tournament since the inaugural edition in 1930. With four matches a day during the group stage for the first time, all the action will be concentrated in and around Doha, with no internal flights needed and the possibility to book one single accommodation for the entire tournament.
For the benefit and comfort of accredited journalists, FIFA and Q22 will make the best of this unique set-up and offer centralised, state-of-the-art infrastructure and services to accredited media.
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The Main Media Centre (MMC) will be co-located with the International Broadcasting Centre at the DECC and serve as a transportation hub to Team Base Camps on the day before the matches and to the eight astonishing stadiums the closest being Education City Stadium, only four kilometres from the MMC, and the furthest, Al Bayt Stadium, 45 kilometres away.
Thirty-two qualified countries including five from Africa will battle for honours in Qatar which has put in place state of the art facilities. It will be the last time 32 Countries will contest as subsequent edition is expected to parade 48 countries. Nations Cup champions Senegal, Tunisia, Morocco Cameroon and Ghana who incidentally stopped Nigeria from qualifyng, will parade Africa flag at the Mundial billed for Mon, 21 Nov 2022 – Sun, 18 Dec 2022.