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Qatar: beyond the football

From corruption to human rights abuses, go deeper into 12 years of reporting on the issues around the Qatar World Cup

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  • (Clockwise from left) The Qatar women’s football team; David Beckham at the opening of Generation Amazing Community Club in Lusail; a pitch invader at the World Cup; and the Lusail Stadium.

    From women’s team to grassroots
    Questions in Qatar after World Cup

    In the week that marked 100 days since the World Cup final we look at five areas with unanswered questions
  • Coach Robert Otiato (centre, crouched) with his Mazrouah FC players.

    'Talent opens doors'
    The club in Qatar giving African players reason to dream

  • Stadium 974

    Broken promises?
    Future of World Cup stadiums still up in the air

  • One hundred days since the World Cup, where Lionel Messi led Argentina to triumph, many workers in Qatar remain at risk of exploitation

    ‘Legacy, what legacy?’
    Fight goes on for migrant workers in Qatar 100 days after World Cup

  • The Sealine Beach resort in Qatar

    Exclusive
    Criminal case opened over death of worker in Qatar

  • Migrant workers sharing a room

    ‘Haven’t earned a rial’
    Qatar migrant workers stranded

  • Migrant workers at the Qatar World Cup play football in their rare leisure time

    Special report
    Qatar’s forgotten migrant workers stuck in a ‘prison where you can work’

David Squires on ...

  • The Whistleblower v2

    A World Cup whistleblower’s story

  • David Squires on … Qatar 2022 and the invisible man’s World Cup story

    The invisible man’s World Cup story

  • Natural Causes v2 (1)

    A worker’s death by ‘natural causes’

In depth

  • The Lusail Stadium in Doha

    Stadiums of shame
    Qatar World Cup numbers hosts don't want to be seen

  • King Charles with the former Qatari prime minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim al Thani

    ‘They are buying something’
    Cash, gifts and arms cement the Qatari-UK relations

  • The Guardian's Pete Pattisson uses his own first-hand experience to explain the exploitation of migrant workers in Qatar in the lead up to the World Cup

    'Built on exploitation'
    The real price of the Qatar World Cup – explainer

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  • Lusail Stadium in Qatar at sunrise in June.

    double quotation markBefore kick-off, has Qatar already lost at geopolitical football?

    Patrick Wintour

Opinion

  • England v IR Iran: Group B - FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, Doha - 20 Nov 2022<br>RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE Mandatory Credit: Photo by Foto Olimpik/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock (13632466i) Harry Kane during the World Cup match between England v Iran, in Doha, Qatar, on November 21, 2022. England v IR Iran: Group B - FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, Doha - 20 Nov 2022

    double quotation markLGBTQ+ fans are sad about Kane’s armband – but we’re tired of being political footballs

    Jon Holmes
    In the two days of the tournament so far, Fifa has shown itself to be utterly uninterested in LGBTQ+ inclusion, says sports journalist Jon Holmes
  • Qatar World Cup

    double quotation markBans, Beckham and a vagina stadium: in inglorious technicolor

    Marina Hyde
  • Construction workers at Lusail Stadium during a media tour in Doha, Qatar, 20 December 2019.

    double quotation markQatar 2022 is much more than football. I’ve seen the coffins

    Pete Pattisson
  • People gather around the official countdown clock showing remaining time until the kick-off of the World Cup 2022, in Doha, Qatar

    Editorial
    The Guardian view on Qatar’s World Cup: sportwashing stains football’s image

  • A replica World Cup trophy outside Lusail Stadium, near Doha, Qatar.

    double quotation markIt shouldn’t take a World Cup for us to speak up about a country’s LGBTQ abuses

    Owen Jones
  • An illustration of a typewriter with 'sportswashing' deleted

    double quotation markForget ‘sportswashing’: this is about military might and hard sports power

    Barney Ronay
  • Two men in hard hats using pneumatic drills

    double quotation markWhat do Qatar’s World Cup workers fear most? Being sent home

    Pete Pattisson in Doha

Modern day slavery in focus

Look back at our series from 2013-2017 on modern day slavery and the 2022 World Cup
  • A gardener, not quoted in this article, at the Marsa Malaz Kempinski hotel in Qatar.

    Investigation
    Migrants claim recruiters lured them into forced labour at top Qatar hotel

  • Foreign laborers in Doha

    ‘We’re cheated, first in India, then in Qatar’
    How World Cup workers are deceived

  • Khalifa international stadium, Doha

    Amnesty
    Migrant workers in Qatar still at risk despite reforms, warns Amnesty

  • A migrant worker carries a pole at a World Cup construction site in the Qatari capital Doha.

    double quotation markWe must all stand up to the world’s richest nation and oppose its use of modern slavery

    Sharan Burrow

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