FIFA World Cup 2022: Beer will not be available near the stadium during World Cup, Qatar changes liquor policy

FIFA World Cup 2022 Qatar: FIFA World Cup 2022 is starting in Qatar on Sunday, but now Qatar has made a big change in its liquor policy. The sale of beer has been banned in eight football stadiums in and around Doha. According to media reports, Qatari officials are pressuring FIFA to ban all sales of longtime World Cup beer sponsor Budweiser at eight venues.

FIFA declined to comment

However, both the World Cup Organizing Committee and FIFA have refused to comment on it. Budweiser's parent company AB InBev pays hundreds of millions of dollars each World Cup for exclusive rights to sell the beer. At the same time, this partnership of Budweiser with FIFA continues since 1986, but this time the Football World Cup is being organized in Qatar.

Brazil changed its liquor policy in the year 2014.

Significantly, the year 2014 FIFA World Cup was organized in Brazil. Brazil's alcohol policy is different, but before the FIFA World Cup 2014, Brazil had changed its alcohol policy. Alcohol sales began in Brazilian stadiums during the 2014 FIFA World Cup after changes in Brazil's alcohol policy. Earlier in the year 2010, Budweiser's parent company AB InBev extended its contract with FIFA for the coming years.

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