FIFA and UEFA's proposal to move the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar to wintertime and spread the tournament around the other gulf nations has met with a negative reception from Asian Football Confederation president Mohammed Bin Hammam. Bin Hammam told Sky News that he is "not interested" in the World Cup being played in the winter and ruled out exploring the option of Qatar co-hosting the tournament with its neighbours.

"It is not up to one, two or three members of FIFA to talk about changing the time without getting the real stakeholders' opinions," he said.

"I know that football in Europe has quite a history, it is quite a business involving a lot of financial, media, marketing - a lot of things," he said.

"It is unfair to these people that we talk about changing the calendar or the time without their full consultation and their full approval and their full agreement - I'm actually not happy to see that happening without the real stakeholders' part of this discussion.

"We are not interested (in moving the World Cup) - we are very happy and we are promising the world that we are going to organise an amazing World Cup in June and July."

In response to Uefa's comment, Bin Hammam added: "I believe Qatar can stand alone and organise the competition by itself.

"I'm really not very impressed by these opinions to distribute the games over the Gulf or change the time from July to January - it's actually premature, you know, it's people's opinions and they're just discussing it on no basis or no ground."