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We are ready to host the World Cup in summer or winter

Qatar 2022 supreme committee

Historically, the World Cup has always been held in June and July and any change could lead to a major scheduling headache.

Temperatures can hit 45 degrees in the summer and both Premier League chairman Sir Dave Richard and Britain's FIFA vice-president Jim Boyce have called for the tournament to be played in winter.
Now World Cup organisers have insisted they are ready to host the competition in either summer or winter.

It means club matches in Europe's top leagues would have to be rescheduled.
The Qatar 2022 supreme committee said in a statement: "Concerning the timing of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, we have always reiterated that we bid on the parameters that we would host in the summer of 2022.

"Various figures from the world of football have raised preferences for hosting in the winter. We are ready to host the World Cup in summer or winter. Our planning isn't affected either way."
FIFA president Sepp Blatter said yesterday that any request to change the timing of the event to cooler months would have to come from Qatar itself.If the move to the winter does happen, the qualifying programme for the World Cup would have to start and finish six months earlier and that would have an impact on soccer in all six of FIFA's confederations.It would also affect the 2022 Winter Olympics and it could be open to a legal challenge.