During the Qatar vs. Switzerland match in the San Francisco Bay Area, a brief technical outage prevented the onside animation graphic from being generated ahead of the penalty awarded to Switzerland in the 14th minute. The issue was quickly resolved.
The workflow of the VAR was not affected by this issue and followed the normal procedure in checking the on-field decision. The lines used by the VAR to check the position of the relevant players did not show the attacking player to be in an offside position in either of the two situations immediately before the penalty decision.
Qatar 🇶🇦 starting XI for their World Cup opening match against Switzerland 🇨🇭
[1] M. Abu Nada
[13] A. Al Alawi
[2] P. Miguel
[16] B. Khoukhi
[4] I. Lay
[14] H. Al Amin
[23] A. Madibo
[5] J. Gaber
[8] Edmislon
[11] A. Afif
[15] Y. Abdurisag
Good luck to the Asian champions 🙌
2026 FIFA World Cup - Qatar’s Group A opponents Bosnia and Herzegovina were held to a 0-0 draw at home by North Macedonia in a friendly. They will face Panama in another friendly in St Louis on June 6, before opening their World Cup campaign against Canada in Toronto on June 12.
In Jeddah, Qatar kicked off their AFC U-17 Asian Cup campaign with a 3-1 defeat against Japan, despite leading at half-time. They next take on Indonesia on 9 May. #AFCU17