FIFA World Cup Research Articles

Recent SDGs and ESG Implementation by Qatar

The gas-rich nation, Qatar, became the first Middle Eastern country to host the FIFA World Cup in 2022, after beating South Korea, Japan, Australia, and the US. Qatar invested an enormous amount of money in implementing the measures outlined by FIFA and United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the World Cup was included in Qatar’s sustainable Vision 2030. Qatar has gained international support and wants to host more mega-events despite controversies surrounding its FIFA World Cup, including workers’ deaths during infrastructure construction and protests from western athletes, politicians, and media against the Qatari government and FIFA’s ban on LGBT+ symbols and alcohol in the stadium. Qatar’s 2022 FIFA World Cup left a sustainable legacy by following ESG principles. This paper analysed how FIFA 2022 applies SDGs, ESG, and Islamic principles and their managerial implications. We concluded with lessons to be learnt from FIFA 2022 and Qatar’s investments in green infrastructure, sustainable mobility, and carbon offsetting, as well as how the country’s efforts to leave a sustainable legacy after the event could inspire other nations.

Investments in sport: fans’ impressions of Qatar 2022

ABSTRACT Qatar’s hosting of the FIFA World Cup (WC) was met with criticism and mixed-feelings, especially certain journalists from the Global North. Others acknowledged that it was going to boost economic activities and deepen the sports-tourism nexus. The overarching aim of this paper is to analyse fans’ impressions of Qatar 2022 regarding their lived experiences in the city of Doha, which helps to understand and clarify some negative perceptions held before and during the World Cup. Interviews with 31 participants arbitrarily sampled from different countries reveal that Qatar 2022 brought fans imaginable excitement and indelible lived experiences. According to some, it will take decades for successive host countries to match those lived experiences, spectacular displays, smooth commutations and excellent organisation. Some tag it “the best FIFA world cup ever”. Results show that Qatar 2022 inspired, gingered and spurred fans on albeit, other mixed-feelings associated with the tournament. We report that there is a perceived image-rebranding strategy that worked successfully for the host nation. The fans further recommend that FIFA revisit its ticketing processes and systems to make them more accessible and fluid without difficulties. Fans suggest that subsequent hosts of the World Cup could be confined to ‘one city’ only so that they can watch two matches a day as experienced in Qatar. However, fans have concerns about the WC event becoming more expensive for an average supporter in the future.

Sports Journalism Reporting in the Era of Digital Media in Nigeria

The advancement in technology has created a better way of sports reporting in journalistic engagement, which pave way for brand journalism known as specialised reporting, in which sports is one of the beats. Specialised reporting has become a necessary part of the press because of the need to address the inadequacies presented by straightforward news reports. Society is getting more complex with time so are the people. Mere news stories are no longer adequate to address the yearnings of complex human societies for complex angles to stories. Today, the diversity of media audiences has necessitated a variety of reporting beats which gave birth to what is known as specialised reporting. Within this context, the media have been associated with sports for a long time. The paper articulates that the role of the media has always been vital in boosting any activity of sports. The media have got a focal position, particularly in communication of fresh information, sharing the viewpoint of the masses, and bringing live sports and other activities to the consumer. The fusion of sports and the media, and Television, in particular, has helped propel and transform major events such as the FIFA world cup and the Olympic Games. Based on the opportunities offered by digital technologies, sports reporting has opened an opportunity for many hidden talents to come to the limelight and it has helped in improving infrastructures among other merits. The paper concludes that with the arrival of new actors in the journalistic field, the heavy use of social media and its impact on sports consumption patterns is imperative. The search for new business models for news organisations and the disrupting technology that is being explored and applied as innovation in the sports coverage all require new conceptual approaches to better understand the sports news.

Fostering trust and overcoming psychological resistance towards cryptocurrencies and cryptoassets

AbstractThis research investigates the extent to which sponsorships can be utilised to foster trust and reduce barriers to adopting new technologies. Using Crypto.com's sponsorship of the 2022 FIFA World Cup as the context, this mixed‐methods study utilises innovation resistance theory (IRT) and trust transfer theory (TTT) to investigate the extent to which such a sponsorship can increase trust and reduce barriers in innovative technologies such as cryptoassets, while also filling a research gap concerning consumer resistance to innovations in digital financial products and services. The findings of study 1, using a survey (n = 1081), and study 2 using interviews (n = 24) reveal that a positive image of sponsorship significantly influences favourability and interest, and trust of the product of the sponsor which subsequently reduces psychological barriers to adoption. Integrating the theoretical viewpoints of IRT and TTT, this study enhances our conceptual understanding regarding the psychological dimension of sponsorship and the extent to which a sponsorship generates interest, giving assurance and trust in the sponsor's product, and removing uncertainty; thus, reducing barriers to adoption.

FIFA World Cup Past Data Analysis using POWERBI

The FIFA World Cup is one of the world's most important sporting events, with a rich history spanning over 90 years. This historical data analysis examines many aspects of the World Cup tournament, including team results, player statistics, and general trends and patterns over the years. Analyze data from past tournaments to identify the top performing teams, top players, and factors that contributed to tournament wins. It also looks at the impact of various factors such as the host country, playing conditions and the tactics used by the teams. Through this analysis, we aim to provide fans, analysts and strategists with valuable information about the FIFA World Cup and its evolution over the years. Keywords—FIFA world cup, Team results, Statistics, Trends, Patterns, Top players, Host

Mega sporting events and their socio-economic impact: Case study of the 2022 FIFA World Cup

Using as a case study the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the present research studied the social-economic consequences of major sport events management. The present study examined many researches that had to do with the concept of infrastructure growth as a result of major sport events, as well as offered statistics on evidence of infrastructure development as a consequence of major sport events. The data that were used for the research were collected via online survey questionnaires, and they were analyzed using descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis. Event infrastructures employed in major sport events have a favorable social-economic impact. That comes as a result of the good impact that the audience at major sporting has on the social-economic development in general, and also the beneficial impact that the degree of organization at major sport events has on the social-economic welfare. The 2022 World Cup has been shown to have a significant influence on the country’s infrastructural development. As a result, it was established that major sport events are critical for a country’s infrastructure development. It is suggested that the present research is used on the future as a source in the investigation of infrastructure changes caused by major sporting events.

Clashes of cultures at the FIFA World Cup: Reflections on soft power, nation building, and sportswashing in Qatar 2022

Clashes of cultures at the FIFA World Cup: Reflections on soft power, nation building, and sportswashing in Qatar 2022

Emotional Shocks and Performance: Evidence from the FIFA World Cup

Abstract: Significant events can trigger emotions affecting individuals’ performance. This paper uses granular, event-level data from the 2018 FIFA football World Cup to study how scored and conceded goals impact performance as measured by each player’s passing ability. These emotional swings allow for the study of these shocks’ influence and duration on players’ ability to pass the ball. The main result shows that conceded goals negatively impact individual performance between three and nine minutes of the trigger effect, while scored goals do not significantly impact passing ability at the conventional levels.

월드컵과 스포츠과학: 경기력 향상의 새로운 물결

This paper aims to discuss the agenda required by sports stakeholders in the future. The main purpose of this paper is to discuss the concept and scope of rapidly changing performance improvement along with the development of science and technology. To achieve the research goal, various cases in which science and technology affect performance improvement were reviewed, and the change in perspective of performance improvement was considered. The main contents are examples of “The history of FIFA World Cup”, “FIFA World Cup and Sports Science”, “Convergence of Sports and Science/Technology”, and “Change of Perspectives on Performance Improvement.” Based on the case reviews, the issues that need to be considered in each stakeholder's decision-making, such as athletes and instructors, governments and companies, for future performance improvement were presented.

An Investigation into In-Game Statistics Distinguishing Teams Advancing and Eliminated in FIFA World Cup Qualifying Rounds: A Study on World Cup Tournaments Organized between 2010-2022

Bu çalışmanın amacı, FİFA Dünya Kupasında grup aşamalarından sonra yer alan eleme turlarındaki takımları ayırt eden oyun içi istatistiklerinin ve futbolda bu istatistiklerin yıldan yıla nasıl değiştiğinin belirlenmesidir. Çalışmada 2010, 2014, 2018 ve 2022 yıllarında gerçekleştirilen son dört Dünya Kupası organizasyonlarında oynanan son 16 turu, çeyrek final, yarı final ve final karşılaşmaları incelenmiştir. Veriler resmî FİFA ve Sofascore web sitelerinden toplanmıştır. Takımlar “turu geçen” ve “elenen” olarak iki gruba ayrılmış ve penaltılara giden müsabakalar analize dahil edilmemiştir. Toplanan veriler SPSS 26 programı ile analiz edilmiştir. Elde edilen verilerin tanımlayıcı istatistikleri belirlenmiş, turu geçen ve elenen takımlar arasındaki ayırt edici değişkenleri belirlemek için ise diskriminant analizi kullanılmıştır. Çalışma bulgularına göre eleme turlarında ilk golü atmanın, ikinci yarıda atılan gol sayısının, toplam şutların (ceza sahası içi-dışı), kornerlerin, faul sayısının, kaleci kurtarışlarının, ikili mücadele kazanma sayısının, pas sayısının, başarılı uzun topun ve top sürme değişkenlerinin turu geçen ve elenen takımları ayırt edici oyun içi istatistikler olduğu belirlenmiştir. Çalışma sonuçları, Dünya Kupası’nda her yıl takımların başarısındaki ayırt edici değişkenlerin farklılaştığını, dolayısı ile futbol anlayışının yıldan yıla değiştiğini ve genel itibari ile ilk golü atan takımların eleme turlarında daha başarılı olduğunu göstermektedir.

The Characters and Underlying Factors of Football Players' Foul: Evidence from World Cup

FIFA World Cup is the most well-known and the most striking event in the worldwide. This study will focus on the characteristic and underlying factors of football player’s fouls. Based on the data comes from 2010-2022 FIFA World Cup, the study collect the data about the fouls and the result studies in six perspectives: (1) the period with the highest frequency of fouls. (2) the use of VAR influence the number of penalties. (3) the use of VAR influence the number of fouls in the big penalty area. (4) the impact of managers’ former positions when they were players. (5) the effect of the tactics that the team use. (6) the influence of the different continents teams. In light of the findings, we can find that the fouls have plenty of characteristic and underlying factors. And this paper only illustrates some of the perspectives To conclude, the time period, the use of VAR and the influence of tactics will cause the difference in the matches.

The FIFA World Cup as a Tool for Global Health Diplomacy

AbstractInternational football competitions like the Continental Championships, Leagues, and World Cup serve as the focal point of large‐scale tournaments with an international scope. With specialized local representatives serving as diplomatic envoys, they can represent interests, beliefs, and history across boundaries. The advancement of world health can also be reflected in this representation. Football can play a crucial role in accomplishing various health goals by raising audience knowledge and encouraging behavioral and lifestyle changes. The World Cup may provide a platform for increased interest in the potential for global health diplomacy. A systems approach is needed to contextualize international soccer within the reality of global health. The World Cup for Health's diplomacy should negotiate with stakeholders and oversee their interactions to provide initiatives and activities that support the globally shared and aligned viewpoint on health outcomes. This article seeks to provide a long‐lasting framework for effectively using the Fédération Internationale de Football Association World Cup, an enormously popular sporting event, as a diplomatic instrument for promoting global health.

World Cup Advertising Pricing and Comprehensive Value Analysis for Companies

The contemporary sports industry is rapidly expanding, and sports are assuming greater significance in people's everyday routines. The World Cup is the largest sporting event globally, boasting a massive market that offers a plethora of benefits to companies. This article aims to delve into the advertising pricing system of the World Cup and the driving factors and logic of exhibitors. It studies the division of the World Cup pricing system, the rights enjoyed by each system, and the reasons for corporate sponsorship, as well as the benefits it brings. The significance of this article is to introduce the pricing of World Cup advertising and analyze the various benefits for companies sponsoring the event. Data related to the FIFA World Cup Russia 2018 and the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 will be examined to determine the approximate pricing of the FIFA World Cup Russia 2018 and the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 advertisements and the overall value of these two World Cups to companies.

A Semiotic Analysis on FIFA World Cup 2022 Qatar Memes

Memes have become a unique way of conveying messages and sharing experiences in today's social media era. The FIFA World Cup is one of the biggest sporting tournaments in the world, and its audience, which is divided into various regions and circles, has attracted researchers to make it an object. The aims of this semiotic analysis study are to determine the signifier and the signified, as well as the denotation and connotation, as well as the meaning of FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 memes. The descriptive qualitative method is being used in the study. To analyze the data, the researchers applied Roland Barthes' theory. Memes are classified as signifiers and signified, which can be expressed verbally or visually. The researchers also explained the denotative and connotative interpretations of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. The writers selected four memes for this analysis that talked about watching experiences, trolling the fans and players, and giving thoughts about the FIFA World Cup 2022 Qatar tournament. The results show that the signifiers in the memes were very random and unique, such as the heartbeat display in the first image, scientists in the second image, actors in the third image, scientists, and cartoon characters with flags in the last image. These signs certainly have objective or literal meanings (denotation) and subjective or other meanings (connotation). Most of the connotational meaning from memes that have been analyzed focuses on sharing the experience of watching the FIFA World Cup 2022 competition and also trolling the football supporters or even the players that participated

Peace as a techno-futurist fantasy: interpreting the opening ceremony of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics

ABSTRACT South Korea hosted the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games nearly 30 years after the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympic Games and almost 16 after the 2002 Korea/Japan FIFA World Cup. The national narrative of these sporting mega-events shifted from a grand display of industrial triumph during the Seoul Olympics to the celebration of a global nation during the World Cup to a nation of cutting-edge technology during the PyeongChang Olympics. The Opening Ceremonies of the PyeongChang Olympics were planned to showcase South Korea’s hallyu cultural juggernaut and technological prowess. Just a month prior to the start of the Games, a delegation from North Korea agreed to compete, thereby changing the narrative of the show. The planned story line shifted to include the idea of reunification not as an urgent matter of the present, but as a techno-futurist fantasy of world peace. While the Olympic leadership fawned over this hopeful display of détente through sport, the joint appearance failed to garner a great deal of excitement in South Korea given the failure of decades of cultural interactions to bring the two countries closer together. Nevertheless, the presence of North Koreans created a level of interest that added an element of historical and political curiosity otherwise missing from an overwrought program that lacked spontaneity. Thus, ironically, the presence of the North Korean delegation worked to improve the overall storyline by offering a dramatic depiction of a technologically mediated future free of conflict.

Who should be allowed to host sporting mega-events? On the public acceptance of criteria to justify hosting decisions

ABSTRACT Criticism has accompanied some of the most recent decisions of international sports organisations for the staging of Olympic Games or FIFA World Cups. Many hosts – from Russia and China to Qatar – have been heavily criticised in Western countries (e.g. Germany) for political and societal grievances up to and including calls for protests and boycotts. This raises several questions concerning the public acceptance of hosting decisions: What criteria does the public consider to be most important when hosting decisions are made? What role should be given to political vs. sports-related criteria? Which population groups are more likely to prioritise political criteria over sports-related criteria? The paper provides insights into these questions based on a representative survey (N = 1,002) from Germany. Results show that Germans consider political and sustainability criteria as of highest importance for justifying hosting decisions. The findings also reveal a latent conflict between political criteria and sports-related criteria. Support for prioritising political considerations (instead of sporting criteria) when making hosting decisions comes from younger, female, politically engaged and politically left individuals, but much less strongly from the core group of media sports consumers.

Correlations of passes and playing formations with technical-tactical elements during the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

This study on the 2022 Qatar FIFA World Cup examined: a) the existence of correlations between passes with other technical-tactical elements, b) the differences in technical-tactical elements in relation to team formation, and c) the characteristics of the key passes created during games. Sixty-four games were analyzed. Match-analysis data were collected using InStat database. Spearman correlation revealed that the number of passes and key passes correlated with number of goals, chances and shots (P<0.05). Team ball possession was correlated with number of passes, key passes, chances, shots and the organized attacks (P<0.001). Kruskal-Wallis H non-parametric test revealed that the teams with the higher percentages of team ball possession, and the higher number of chances, shots and crosses used formations 1-4-2-3-1 and 1-4-3-3. Finally, most of the key passes performed in axis of the field and they were short low passes. The ability of teams to keep the possession of the ball, looking for the key pass, and final action can be a factor in the team's success. A characteristic finding of the study was the preference of groups to manifest their attack from the axis. The equal distribution of attacks between the axis and the sides of the field makes the team's offensive function more unpredictable. Also, most formations concentrate several players on the axis, making it more difficult to complete an attack from this area.

Analysis of corner kicks in FIFA 2022 world cup-Qatar

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7973450 Abstract: This study aimed to analyze corner kicks taken in the matches played in the FIFA world cup 2022-Qatar to provide information to coaches on how to score goals from corner kicks, and the most important tactics used in the implementation of corner kicks, whether in an offensive or defensive situation, and place them in their training programs. The descriptive method in its survey form through scientific observation was used, the researchers used many parameters to analyze data (direction in which corners were taken, the time interval in which the corners were taken, the region where the ball kicked in, the player whom the ball met in the penalty area, which part of the body contacted the ball, corner kicks result, how goals are scored from the corner kicks. (554) corner kicks in (64)matches were analyzed in FIFA world cup 2022,the results showed that (283) corners were taken from right side percentage (51.2%)and (271) percentage (49.8%) from left side, the most interval time corner kicks were taken between (76-90+) from the match( 147) corners, percentage(26.5%),the defenders were the most players met the ball in the penalty area (296) percentage (53.4%) and the head was the most part contacted the ball (341) with percentage (67.5%),ten (10)goals were scored from the corner kicks with percentage of (1.8%)and (4) scored by head and (6 )scored by foot.

A comparative examination of World Cup Champions of European and American origin of national football players in terms of "relative age effect"

This study aimed to analysis the birth date distributions of the champion players between the years 1930-2022 to determine whether the FIFA World Cup champion national team football players between the years 1930-2022 were affected by the "Relative Age Effect" phenomenon. The universe of the research consisted of the national teams that were champions in the 1930-2022 FIFA World Cup Finals. The samples consisted of the football player group of the national teams that won the championship. The model of the research was determined as "Basic Qualitative Research". The data collection technique in the research was determined as "Document Analysis". The data analysis was made according to the Miles &amp; Huberman model, which is a descriptive analysis form. In the study, the information of the athletes was detailed by looking at the squad structure for the FIFA World Cup champion national team football players between the years 1930-2022. In the highest level of professional football, it has been seen that the champion national team football players are numerically close to each other in terms of "relative age effect". As a result, it has been observed that the relative age effect in senior football decreases with increasing age. It was shown that the relative age effect in professional elite national teams changed negatively due to the high number of football players born in the second half of the year. In this case, it was not a negative situation for football players who transition to professionalism and reach the elite level, being born in the last months of the year. Looking at the intercontinental comparison, even considering the different football culture and structure, it has been revealed that late-born athletes have caught up with their peers at a professional level and even left them behind.

Analyzing Player Movement at the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar

Analyzing Player Movement at the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar