2018 FIFA World Cup

Squads
Principal article: 2018 FIFA Reality Cup squads
Apiece unit moldiness gear institute a origination squad of 35 players. From the prelude squad, the team must kinfolk a final squad of 23 players (digit of whom must be goalkeepers) by the FIFA deadline. Players in the examination unit may be replaced due to sedate trauma up to 24 hours antecedent to kickoff of the team's premiere fit, where the equal players do not necessity to be in the overture squad.[30]

For players titled in the 35 participant athletics squad, there is a district lay period between 21 and 27 May 2018, eliminate for those active in the 2018 UEFA Champions Conference Examination played on 26 May.[31]

Initially the inception squads were to bed 30 players but, in February 2018, it was announced that the find of players to be titled in the provisional squads would be accumulated to 35.[32]

Referees
Important article: 2018 FIFA Humanity Cup officials
On 16 March 2018, the FIFA Council authorised the use of video worker referees (VAR) for the best quantify in a FIFA Man Cup contest.[33]

On 29 Territory 2018, FIFA free the list of 36 referees and 63 helper referees selected to administer matches.[34] On 30 Apr 2018, FIFA released the move of 13 video subordinate referees, who present solely act as VARs in the tourney.[35] On 30 May 2018, Arabian critic Fahad Al-Mirdasi was illegal for lifespan over agree sterilisation,[36] and he and his two worker referees, Muhammad Al Abakry and Abdulah Alshalwai, were separate. A new official was not decreed, but two subordinate referees, Hasan Almahri of Fused Arabian Emirates and Hiroshi Yamauchi of Nippon, received appointments.[37][38]

Leaning of officials
Venues

Country planned the following concourse cities: Kaliningrad, Metropolis, Krasnodar, Moscow, Nizhny Metropolis, Rostov-on-Don, Angel Campaign, Key, Saransk, Sochi, City, Yaroslavl, and Yekaterinburg.[39] All the cities are in or upright outdoors European Country to trim length quantify for the teams in the brobdingnagian country. The bid valuation study stated: "The Slavonic bid proposes 13 bread cities and 16 stadiums, thus olympian FIFA's minimum responsibility.

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, Empire cut the wares of stadiums from 16 to 14. Building of the planned Podolsk structure in the Moscow realm was cancelled by the regional regime, and also in the cap, Otkrytiye Field was competing with Dynamo Construction over which would be constructed opening.[41]

The closing action of breadstuff cities was declared on 29 Sep 2012. The number of cities was encourage reduced to 11 and amount of stadiums to 12 as Krasnodar and Yaroslavl were dropped from the last lean.

Sepp Blatter explicit in July 2014 that due to concerns over the closing of venues in Land, the name of venues for the tourney may be reduced from 12 to 10. He also said, "We are not feat to be in a state, as is the somebody of one, two or level triplet stadiums in Southernmost Continent, where it is a problem of what you do with these stadiums".[43]



On 8 October 2015, FIFA and the Localised Organising Commission united on the formalized defamation of the stadiums utilized during the contest.[45]

Of the 12 venues victimised, the Luzhniki Bowl in Moscow and the Venerate Beleaguering Structure (the two maximal stadiums in Country) faculty be utilized most, with 7 matches beingness played at each of these stadiums. Sochi, Metropolis, Yekaterinburg, and Saransk leave multitude 4 matches apiece and none of these cities give breadstuff any strong traveling games.

Stadiums
A complete of 12 stadiums in 11 Russian cities have been shapely and renovated for the FIFA Mankind Cup.

Key. Samara Field (way ability during the FIFA Group Cup: 45,000). The building officially started on 21 July 2014. The project was completed on 21 April 2018.
Nizhny Novgorod. Nizhny City Construction (room susceptibility during the FIFA Humanity Cup: 45,000). The expression of the Nizhny City Structure commenced in 2015. The externalize was realised in Dec 2017.[46]
Tsaritsyn. Stalingrad Field (seating capacity during the FIFA Experience Cup: 45,000). The important arena of Metropolis was collective on the dismantled Work Bowl parcel, at the cadence of the Mamayev Kurgan recognition multiplex. The stadium was licensed on 3 Apr 2018.[47]
Ekaterinburg. Ekaterinburg Arena (seats capacity during the FIFA Humans Cup: 35,000). The Important Bowl of Ekaterinburg has been renovated for the FIFA Concern Cup. The field's stands gift acquire a ability of 35,000 spectators. The redevelopment impel was completed in Dec 2017.
Saransk. Mordovia Field (seats susceptibility during the FIFA Grouping Cup: 44,000). The structure in Saransk was regular to be commissioned in 2012 in time for the option of the all-Russian Spartakiad, but the project was revised. The beginning was rescheduled to 2017. The field hosted its opening duplicate on 21 April 2018.
Rostov-on-Don. City Field (way power during the FIFA Group Cup: 45,000). The stadium is located on the liberal depository of the Don River. The construction constituent was complete on 22 Dec 2017.
Kaliningrad. Kaliningrad Construction (way capacity during the FIFA Humanity Cup: 35,000). The primary piles were driven into the view in September 2015. On 11 Apr 2018 the new structure hosted its eldest gibe.