In 2010, the nation won its controversial offer to have the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Doha

On 25 June 2013, Hamad gave over capacity to his child Tamim in a broadcast speech.[24] with respect to the move in force, Hamad stated: "The opportunity has arrived to open another page in the excursion of our country that would have another age convey the responsibilities."[25] Since his resignation, he is presently famously alluded to as the Father Emir. His fourth child Sheik Tamim, from his second spouse Sheikha Moza, is presently the eighth and current Emir of Qatar. Hamad is accepted to have experienced chronic weakness for quite a while. In December 2015, he was traveled to Zürich, Switzerland, for treatment in the wake of breaking his leg while on vacation in Morocco's Atlas mountains.[26] Accomplishments ----

---- In human expressions, Hamad set up the Qatar Museums Authority in 2005 which constructed the I. M. Pei planned Museum of Islamic Art Doha. Since its opening, Qatar has become the world's greatest contemporary workmanship buyer,[27] broadly buying Cézanne's The Card Players in 2012 for over US$250 million.[28] The craftsmanship obtaining endeavors were frequently spoken to by Sheik Saud canister Mohammed Al Thani, leader of Qatar's National Council for Culture, Arts and the Heritage. The Museum Authority supported Takashi Murakami's EGO display in Doha which ran from 9 February to 24 June 2012,[30] Damien Hirst's review at Tate Modern in Spring and Summer 2012 and Hirst's presentation Relics, from October 2013 to January 2014. In July 2013, related to Miuccia Prada and the Prada Foundation, QMA dispatched CURATE, a worldwide quest for curatorial talent.[33] Additionally, the Doha Film Institute was set up in 2009 which in organization with the Tribeca Film Festival (established by Robert De Niro), made the Doha Tribeca Film Festival that ran from 2009 – 2012.[34] The Doha Film Institute is delivering Salma Hayek's impending enlivened transformation of Khalil Gibran's exemplary novel The Prophet, with Lion King chief Roger Allers planning the process.[35] DFI is likewise credited as a creation organization on a few different movies, including Just Like a Woman featuring Sienna Miller,[36] The Reluctant Fundamentalist, coordinated by Mira Nair, which opened the 69th Venice International Film Festival,[37] and Kanye West's Cruel Summer – a short film which was shot in Doha and debuted during the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.[38] In February 2013, they declared a $100 million element film reserve with Participant Media, a creation organization established by extremely rich person Jeffrey Skoll, who was the main representative and furthermore first leader of web sell off firm eBay. Under the support of Hamad and his significant other Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned, different scholarly foundations have opened grounds in Doha, including Carnegie Mellon University, Georgetown University, Northwestern University, Texas A&M University and Weill Cornell Medical College.