Leading to next years' (2022) World Cup, Qatar has been issuing a series of beautiful football themes stamps, which I have posted as they entered service:
But the tradition of football in the stamps of Qatar goes way back to 1966 when it issued a set of commemorative stamps for the England World Cup.
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Later in 1976 issue celebrating the 4th Arabian Gulf Cup which was held in Qatar. The tournament was held at the purpose built Khalifa Stadium. This stadium has gone a massive renovation allowing it to be one of the 8 stadiums that will host the Qatar World Cup 2022.
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Along the next years a nothing much come out, until when in 2002 a full sheet of stamps was produced containing all the World Cup series posters (from 1930 up to 2002). This was followed up with another stamp in 2006 for the Germany World Cup. That left three world cup posters for which Qatar had no stamps issued: South Africa 2010, Brazil 2014 and Russia 2018. This omission has now been corrected with todays stamp issue.
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