France's need to impose bans on alcohol sales near Euro 2016 venues in an attempt to prevent clashes between groups of fans and other visitors has prompted the Gulf State to look at the relationship between alcohol consumption and violence. France's need to impose bans on alcohol sales near Euro 2016 venues in an attempt to prevent clashes between groups of fans and other visitors has prompted the Gulf State to look at the relationship between alcohol consumption and violence.

Qatar's World Cup organising committee has said that the disorder and violence seen at the recent European Championship in France could affect the availability of alcohol at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

France's need to impose bans on alcohol sales near Euro 2016 venues in an attempt to prevent clashes between groups of fans and other visitors has prompted the Gulf State to look at the relationship between alcohol consumption and violence, reports Associated Press.

More than 60 members of Qatar's World Cup organising committee shadowed Euro 2016 organisers, including assistant secretary general Nasser Al-Khater, who said the disorder in France during June's football tournament will influence the alcohol policy in 2022.

"The strange thing we saw, as soon as some of the violence picked up in France, the first thing people spoke about was banning alcohol around the stadiums 24 or 48 hours before the match and during the match," Al-Khater told Associated Press.

"So that means there is a recognition that sometimes alcohol could relate to or encourage some sort of violence. So, we need to take that into consideration to make sure the balance that we strike is right and we want to make sure that Qatar in 2022 will be a violence-free World Cup," he added.

Al-Khater also said that Qatar will implement the restrictions it believes are necessary "whatever the criticism might be".

Al-Khater was speaking a day before the 2016 Olympic Games opening ceremony in Rio de Janeiro.

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Alcohol is only sold in select hotel bars in Qatar and guests must show their passports upon entry. Residents can also, if they obtain a licence, buy alcohol from a government-managed store in Doha.

In the run up to the previous World Cup in Brazil, the South American country tried to ban alcohol sales in stadiums during the tournament but this was overruled by FIFA.

One of FIFA’s biggest sponsors is American drinks giant Anheuser-Busch and Budweiser was the "Official Beer of the FIFA World Cup" at the Brazil event.