One possible outcome is countries choosing not to participate in the FIFA World Cup, and to compete in a separate tournament organized by someone else. Essentially the UK has floated the idea of boycotting the FIFA event if the corruption situation is not dealt with satisfactorily.

With or without the corruption, I wonder if countries will choose to boycott Qatar anyway, for reasons to do with the weather, safety, security etc. Basically all the threats that were pointed out in the assessment report. The one that ranked Qatar last out of the