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It's par for the course that a city hosting a major sporting event will add to its existing arsenal of facilities, a stadium here and an entertainment precinct there. For Qatar, the controversially awarded 2022 World Cup host, they're building an entire city on the desert coast that includes its primary venue.

The 28sq-mile city of Lusail is scheduled to host the opening ceremony and final of the biggest sporting event in the world, provided the £25bn project and its 86,000-seat stadium, Lusail Iconic Stadium, is completed on time.

When it's all built though, as these images show, the city built from scratch on the desert coast nine miles from capital Doha's centre will be a remarkable feat of design and engineering geared at wealthy business types and tourists alike.

Out of the desert: An overview of Lusail, the Qatari city being built from scratch ahead of the 2022 World Cup

Self-contained: The luxury Lusail City Marina is built to be a small city in its own right for the well-heeled complete with full retail facilities 

The big show: The controversially-awarded World Cup will put Qatar on show, with the Lusail Iconic Stadium the centrepiece of the tournament

On completion developers say Lusail will become home to more than a quarter of a million residents, and be capable of hosting tens of thousands more at its array of luxury hotels.

Lusail is formed by four islands and includes two luxury marinas, the 56,000 square metre Marina Mall and the enormous 241-acre Entertainment City which will include a giraffe zoo, a snow park and a Six Flags amusement park.

The mall is set to open in 2017 and its design, based on desert canyons, includes roofs that repel the heat, a body of running water and water falls throughout its five interconnected pods that boast cinemas, restaurants and retail outlets.

Residents and visitors will move around getting around on a light-rail network, an underground network tunnels for pedestrians and water taxis, they will also have access to two golf courses.

As with all the proposed developments that formed part of the appeal for FIFA delegates when awarding the world's biggest sporting event to Qatar, the major elements of the city will be environmentally friendly - the stadium, complete with a solar-powered cooling system so players and fans don't bake in the summer desert sun, will have no carbon footprint.

All amenities, including energy, transport and communications systems will be run out of a single hub so the city can react to issues such as weather and traffic in a streamlined manner - surveillance cameras will also populate the city for security purposes.   

Showcase: The 86,000-capacity stadium is set to commence construction in 2015 before hosting the opening ceremony and final of the tournament

Home by the water: The environmentally-friendly city will house more than 250,000 residents, developers say, and aim to attract tens of thousands of tourists

Business time: The Lusail Towers District and Plaza forms the commercial district of the city

Anchors: Four commercial towers that will be as high as 75 storeys each will be flanked by a host of luxury hotels and amenities