--- title: Alcohol Banned From Public Spaces During Qatar World Cup description: How the conservative Muslim country would deal with the question of alcohol has has been a point of conjecture. canonical: https://time.com/4563570/qatar-fifa-2022-alcohol-ban/ author: Dominique Rowe article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-09T05:45:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T01:42:25.842Z article:section: Sports og:title: Alcohol Banned From Public Spaces During Qatar World Cup og:description: Qatari officials are also seeking alcohol bans in World Cup stadiums og:url: https://time.com/4563570/qatar-fifa-2022-alcohol-ban/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdfa8cf66a05c8db8/6988adb397cdff15806ae82f/gettyimages-522823242.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: General views of Venues for 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Alcohol Banned From Public Spaces During Qatar World Cup twitter:description: Qatari officials are also seeking alcohol bans in World Cup stadiums twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdfa8cf66a05c8db8/6988adb397cdff15806ae82f/gettyimages-522823242.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Alcohol Will Be Banned in Public Spaces During the 2022 Qatar World Cup > Sponsored content. 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In this handout image supplied by Qatar 2022, is an artist's impression of the Al Bayt Stadium, Al Khor City, a host venue for the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar.Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy/Getty Images by [Dominique Rowe](https://time.com/author/dominique-rowe/) ## Dominique Rowe Nov 9, 2016 5:45 AM UTC Qatari officials have [banned alcohol in streets](https://www.afp.com/en/news/207/no-alcohol-streets-public-places-world-cup-qatar) and other public places during the 2022 FIFA World Cup in the country’s capital, Doha, organizers said Tuesday. Officials in the Gulf state are also seeking alcohol bans in World Cup stadiums during the tournament. Alcohol will only be allowed in “far-away places,” said the secretary-general of the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy Al-Thawadi in an interview with Arabic language newspaper _Al-Sharq_, without clarifying further. “There will be no alcohol consumption on the streets, squares and public places and that is final,” he said, according to Agence France-Presse. How the conservative Muslim country would deal with the question of alcohol at the tournament has long been a point of conjecture, and the latest development is not going to sit well with many foreign fans who are already disgruntled at the soccer governing body’s decision to move the World Cup to winter, to avoid Doha’s searing 113°F desert summers. While alcohol is not strictly illegal in Qatar, consumption and sales are restricted. Foreign nationals living in the country can apply for licenses allowing them to drink, and hotels are permitted to serve alcoholic beverages. It is, however, illegal to be intoxicated outdoors, which is where the World Cup ban comes in. Qatari officials have also expressed concerns over the relationship between alcohol and soccer-related violence, as seen in the clashes between English and Russian fans in France during Euro 2016. “We are against the provision of alcohol in stadiums and their surroundings,” said Al-Thawadi, adding that Qatar would not bow to pressure to alter its laws for the tournament. \[[_AFP_](https://www.afp.com/en/news/207/no-alcohol-streets-public-places-world-cup-qatar)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4563570/qatar-fifa-2022-alcohol-ban/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4563570/qatar-fifa-2022-alcohol-ban/"},"headline":"Alcohol Will Be Banned in Public Spaces During the 2022 Qatar World Cup","datePublished":"2016-11-09T05:45:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T01:42:25.842Z","description":"\"There will be no alcohol consumption on the streets, squares and public places and that is final\"","url":"https://time.com/4563570/qatar-fifa-2022-alcohol-ban/","keywords":["Soccer","FIFA","FIFA World Cup"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdfa8cf66a05c8db8/6988adb397cdff15806ae82f/gettyimages-522823242.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dominique Rowe","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/dominique-rowe/"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdfa8cf66a05c8db8/6988adb397cdff15806ae82f/gettyimages-522823242.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"General views of Venues for 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar","caption":"General views of Venues for 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar","creditText":"Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/soccer/","name":"Soccer"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4563570/qatar-fifa-2022-alcohol-ban/","name":"Alcohol Will Be Banned in Public Spaces During the 2022 Qatar World Cup"}}]}] ```