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Old Yesterday, 23:33
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The link is here: http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/affe...en_neutral.pdf

Obviously this will impact the domestic season, dramatically.

My solution would be to start the football season on Saturday 30th July 2022. (Might be even a week earlier.)

The season would come to a halt on Saturday 12th November/Sunday 13th November 2022. (Might also be a week earlier.)

The World Cup starts on Monday 21st November 2022, and finishes on Sunday 18th December 2022.

After the World Cup Finals, the season would restart with the Boxing Day fixtures for each club on Monday 26th December 2022.
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Season will pause on the 13th (why go a week earlier when you don't need to?).

The European leagues will all ditch their winter breaks, so actually they will be pretty unaffected by this.

I think UEFA is losing 1 probably 2 matchdays with this, but that is easily resolved by starting in August instead of September.

The PL has to reschedule 4 match days. extra midweek in the Christmas fixtures sorts one out. Start the season a week earlier is another. Finish a week later, there's another.

This is going to be boringly straightforward to organise.
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Well I assume that as much rest as possible would be wanted hence why they might decide to go a week earlier.

You would think the England players would need to climatize to the conditions in Qatar. Yes it does help that it is not in the middle of summer, but you would want more than a weeks break for the players before the world cup.
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Serves FIFA right for choosing Qatar as the host for the 2022 World Cup.

Too scared to do a massive amount of research on nations that can host the World Cup.
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Serves FIFA right for choosing Qatar as the host for the 2022 World Cup.

Too scared to do a massive amount of research on nations that can host the World Cup.
The thing is this won't bother FIFA too much, they have simply said they will do whatever they need or want to do.

I would hope that we could have a normal season, by which I mean that all the fixtures are played, even if things have to be moved around a bit. And by that I mean all 38 Premier League games, (46 in the Football League,) the FA Cup (with replays) the League Cup (with 2 legged semi-finals) and also the champions league and Europa League taking place as normal.

It should, in theory, be easy, afterall there is still only the same amount of football to fit in during the season.

But I suspect it will be a lot more complicated than that. I hope not.
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It's going to be bizarre not having a World Cup in the Summer but in the run up to Christmas instead.
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This is what they all need to give up for the 2 seasons

1 PL Pre Season Tours
2 UEFA 4 weeks to play CL last 16 when you can do it in 2
3 FL Give Up 2 legged Semis
4 FIFA Friendlies in those 2 seasons
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Adverts during football in the run up to christmas = ££££££!
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FIFA are arseholes. Massive, massive greedy arseholes.

A winter world cup in the desert is absolutely shite.
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Well I assume that as much rest as possible would be wanted hence why they might decide to go a week earlier.
You would think the England players would need to climatize to the conditions in Qatar. Yes it does help that it is not in the middle of summer, but you would want more than a weeks break for the players before the world cup.
Who do you mean by "they"? If you mean, will FIFA say that they want players released a week earlier you might be right, but they aren't saying that at the moment.

The clubs are very hostile to this World Cup, they won't release any players a second earlier than they are directed to.

Players get ~10 days to get used to the African Cup of Nations, this is no different really.
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Adverts during football in the run up to christmas = ££££££!
Advertisers get that anyway with club football, they aren't that impressed at missing out on a summer World Cup.
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This is what they all need to give up for the 2 seasons

1 PL Pre Season Tours
2 UEFA 4 weeks to play CL last 16 when you can do it in 2
3 FL Give Up 2 legged Semis
4 FIFA Friendlies in those 2 seasons
1. No summer World Cup means they have more time than ever to do pre season tours (in 2022 especially). Expect longer tours if anything.

2. UEFA has no need to change anything post Christmas, everything will be back to normal by then.

3. Possible, although I think the PL is limited with how many midweek matchdays they can use so more likely that season will start and end later (but only by a week each side).

4. This has already been made clear.
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Advertisers get that anyway with club football, they aren't that impressed at missing out on a summer World Cup.
The summer audiences for football are big enough even with the nice weather. With it being cold across Europe there could be some monster numbers Europe wide for this
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