Sports · World Cup 2022
Stadiums
Where was it played?
Almost entirely within greater Doha. Qatar 2022 packed eight stadiums into five host cities clustered around Doha — the most compact World Cup of the modern era, the whole host map just 34 miles end to end and several venues a short metro ride apart. The map below puts each stadium where it actually sits.
North of the bay
Al Khor up the coast and the new city of Lusail
Al Rayyan
The western cluster — three stadiums side by side
Doha & the south
The capital’s own grounds, down to Al Wakrah
Al Bayt Stadium Opener Semi-finalAl Bayt StadiumAl KhorQatar68,8959 matches
Qatar 0–2 
Ecuador
Morocco 0–0 
Croatia
England 0–0 
United States
Spain 1–1 
Germany
Netherlands 2–0 Qatar
Costa Rica 2–4 Germany
England 3–0 
Senegal
England 1–2 
France
France 2–0 Morocco
Education City StadiumEducation City StadiumAl RayyanQatar44,6678 matches
Denmark 0–0 
Tunisia
Uruguay 0–0 
South Korea
Poland 2–0 
Saudi Arabia
South Korea 2–3 
Ghana
Tunisia 1–0 France
South Korea 2–1 
Portugal
Morocco 0–0aet 3–0 pens Spain
Croatia 1–1aet 4–2 pens 
Brazil
Ahmad bin Ali StadiumAhmad bin Ali StadiumAl RayyanQatar45,0327 matches
United States 1–1 
Wales
Belgium 1–0 
Canada
Wales 0–2 
Iran
Japan 0–1 Costa Rica
Wales 0–3 England
Croatia 0–0 Belgium
Argentina 2–1 
Australia
Khalifa International Stadium Third placeKhalifa International StadiumAl RayyanQatar45,8578 matches
England 6–2 Iran
Germany 1–2 Japan
Netherlands 1–1 Ecuador
Croatia 4–1 Canada
Ecuador 1–2 Senegal
Japan 2–1 Spain
Netherlands 3–1 United States
Croatia 2–1 Morocco
Al Janoub StadiumAl Janoub StadiumAl WakrahQatar44,3257 matches
France 4–1 Australia
Switzerland 1–0 
Cameroon
Tunisia 0–1 Australia
Cameroon 3–3 
Serbia
Australia 1–0 Denmark
Ghana 0–2 Uruguay
Japan 1–1aet 1–3 pens Croatia
Stadium 974Stadium 974DohaQatar44,0897 matches
Mexico 0–0 Poland
Portugal 3–2 Ghana
France 2–1 Denmark
Brazil 1–0 Switzerland
Poland 0–2 Argentina
Serbia 2–3 Switzerland
Brazil 4–1 South Korea
Al Thumama StadiumAl Thumama StadiumDohaQatar44,4008 matches
Senegal 0–2 Netherlands
Spain 7–0 Costa Rica
Qatar 1–3 Senegal
Belgium 0–2 Morocco
Iran 0–1 United States
Canada 1–2 Morocco
France 3–1 Poland
Morocco 1–0 Portugal
Lusail Stadium Final Semi-finalLusail StadiumLusailQatar88,96610 matches
Argentina 1–2 Saudi Arabia
Brazil 2–0 Serbia
Argentina 2–0 Mexico
Portugal 2–0 Uruguay
Saudi Arabia 1–2 Mexico
Cameroon 1–0 Brazil
Portugal 6–1 Switzerland
Netherlands 2–2aet 3–4 pens Argentina
Argentina 3–0 Croatia
Argentina 3–3aet 4–2 pens France
About this page
Venue facts — names, cities, and capacities — are cross-checked against FIFA’s published venue material, the stadiums’ own sites, and Wikipedia. Match assignments are never typed on this page: every slate derives from the same verified match data as the tournament record, so each stadium’s slate is exactly the matches it hosted, from the opener to the final. The map is drawn from public-domain Natural Earth boundary data, projected; each pin sits at its stadium’s real location. No stadium photography — an accurate map beats a hero shot of an empty bowl.
Mungomash is an independent reference site. It is not affiliated with FIFA, the tournament organizers, the host cities, or any stadium. Data as of 2026-06-11 20:00 ET.
The rare World Cup where the TV name was the real name
FIFA scrubs stadium sponsor names during its tournaments, so at most World Cups the venues play under “clean” names that differ from the ones fans use — the way 2026’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium becomes “Atlanta Stadium.” Qatar 2022 was the exception: all eight venues were purpose-built or rebuilt for the tournament and carried no conflicting sponsor names, so the FIFA name and the everyday name were one and the same. That is why the two name columns on this page read identically for every venue — there was no second name to scrub.
Capacities are FIFA’s published tournament figures — the gross World Cup capacity, including the temporary tiers several of these grounds carried. Lusail, the final venue, was the largest at 88,966; Stadium 974 — assembled from 974 shipping containers and fully demountable — was taken apart after the tournament. Where a stadium’s current site lists a smaller everyday capacity, that is the post-tournament reconfiguration, not a different building.