There is less and less left for the start of the Qatar 2022 World Cup that will begin in November.
Many teams are beginning to outline possible calls for a tournament that will start in just five months.
Many are wondering what will happen to the league championships that start in August and that usually do not have a break in November.
Well, the vast majority of leagues, and especially the big five (Spanish, English, French, German and Italian) have established the calendar for next season in order to leave the necessary gap for the World Cup.
The World Cup event in Qatar will begin on November 21 and will last until December 18. Practically a month in which the clubs will not be able to count on the players called by the selectors.
The national leagues are obliged to stop and release players from November 14, a week before the World Cup begins. Therefore, the weekend of November 12 and 13 will be, at the latest, the last with football in the different leagues and on the 14th the players will be called for concentration by the coaches of the national teams and they will be incorporated to their respective teams.
In other words, a week will pass from the concentration until the tournament opens on Monday the 21st. A World Cup in winter will be a different World Cup, but without losing the essence that makes it the most important international tournament in history.
At the moment the Premier League, the Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1 have already made the calendar official for the 2022/2023 academic year. In England, the last day of the Premier before the World Cup will be the weekend of November 12 and 13 and the break will be 42 days, just in time to play boxing-day.
In Germany, the Bundesliga will begin on August 5 and 15 games will be played until the break, which will also be the weekend of November 12 and 13 and activity will not resume until January 20. As for Ligue 1, it will also stop after that weekend and will return to action on December 28, ten days after the end of the World Cup, while the Italian Serie A will start on August 14 and stop on November 13.
In Spain, in the absence of official confirmation, LaLiga will start on August 14 and in principle the break for the World Cup is scheduled to be from November 9 to December 29.
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