Qatar 2022: How many players can be called up to the FIFA World Cup National Teams rosters?

Those in charge of carrying the weight of the hopes and expectations of an entire country during the FIFA World Cup are the privileged ones who are called up to form part of a National Team. Qatar 2022 brings a surprise in this respect once again.

For starters, there will be the possibility of seeing more players during the Qatar 2022 matches, as FIFA has authorized 5 changes to take place, a trend that began in support of player and team integrity during the Covid-19 pandemic.

And if that were not enough, the upcoming FIFA World Cup will add another novelty that will enter the history of this tournament as a watershed, along with the fact that Qatar 2022 will be the first edition, in 92 years of history, to be played in the Middle East, at the end of the year and not in May, June or July, with female central referees, and this is the number of players that may be called to the squads of the qualified National Teams.

The FIFA World Cup has now been held for 92 years in 22 editions, including the upcoming Qatar 2022 edition. Evidently, at the beginning, in Uruguay 1930, they did not even imagine the cultural and sporting phenomenon that this tournament would become. Thus, there were signs of amateurism throughout the first editions.

A clear example of this is the number of players called up by each of the 13 National Teams that played in edition 1 of the FIFA World Cup. The team with the most players in its roster was Brazil with 23, followed by Argentina, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay with 22, Chile with 19, Yugoslavia, Mexico and Bolivia with 17, the United States, France and Belgium with 16, and Romania with 15.

The situation of disparity in the squads, due to the resources and the distance the squads had to travel to