Six months after the final of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, our research - After the Final Whistle: Migrant workers speak out on exploitation during Qatar World Cup 2022 - revealed systemic labour rights abuse among workers in Qatar during the World Cup, including extortionate and illegal fee-charging, wage theft, an atmosphere of fear and intimidation, and a serious lack of due diligence or monitoring by employers and workplaces on how workers were being treated at work. We asked all participating, visiting football associations the following;

1. Invite you to respond to the findings of the report; and,
2. Invite you to disclose information regarding the risks to workers detected by your systems during the tournament, including:

• How many reports of abuse your organisation detected among contracted companies’ workforces, including at team and staff hotels;
• The steps your organization took in response to those reports; and,
• The steps taken to remedy and compensate workers, including amounts reimbursed in the case of recruitment fee-payment and wage theft.

The Welsh FA said:

Hi Isobel, thank you for your email and for sharing the report.

We have still been continuing discussions with FIFA and the SC, particularly with regard to the remuneration fund and worker's rights centres through the UEFA Human Rights Working Group (https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/news/0270-13f8caa16930-d604309a491e-1000--our-resources/).

As you are aware our qualification to the FIFA 2022 Qatar World Cup was quite late and we did as much as we could in the period to our arrival in Qatar with our due diligence which included meetings with hotel and services staff and ongoing discussion throughout the tournament. We did not receive any reports directly ourselves during our time at the tournament.

We will be continuing our discussions with FIFA and are also looking towards the next major tournaments in Germany in 2024 and also USA/Canada in 2026.