The 2022 World Cup will begin in Qatar in around a year. The most important milestones up to the start of the tournament.
A World Cup draw before all tickets have been awarded, the Nations League in the middle of June, a Bundesliga winter break in November: things are different in the run-up to the next World Cup. Because Qatar will play from November 21st to December 18th in 2022 , i.e. shortly before Christmas, the football calendar had to be adjusted in many places in the new year.
What are the most important dates? When do the squads have to be nominated? This is the schedule up to the 2022 World Cup:
2021
November 11th to 16th, 2021: Last World Cup qualifiers in Europe
November 26, 2021: Draw for the European World Cup play-offs in Zurich
November 30 to December 18, 2021: FIFA Arab Cup with 23 Arab teams as a dress rehearsal for World Cup hosts Qatar (replaces the Confed Cup)
December 16, 2021: Draw for the Nations League groups
2022
March 24-29, 2022: European World Cup play-offs ; DFB-Elf with two test matches
April 1, 2022: Draw of the World Cup groups in Doha
2nd to 14th June 2022: Nations League, 1st to 4th matchday
June 2022: Intercontinental play-offs (determination of the last two World Cup participants)
August 5, 2022: Bundesliga opener 2022/23
22nd to 27th September 2022: Nations League, 5th and 6th matchday
End of October 2022: World Cup squad nomination (changes possible up to one day before the first group game)
November 11th to 13th, 2022: Last Bundesliga matchday before World Cup
November 14, 2022: Start of the World Cup suspension period
November 21, 2022: World Cup kick-off
