Drawings of lots and pairings

The drawing of lots for the FIDE Candidates Tournament was carried out on April 28, 2022, during the FIDE Council in Abu Dhabi, in a ceremony organized by the Chief Arbiter for the event, Anastasia Sorokina. At the moment of the ceremony, seven players had signed their contracts and the eight's place was still subject to the final decisions regarding Sergey Karjakin's appeal to the Ethics and Disciplinary Commission.

FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich drew the lots for Ian Nepomniachtchi, who will play under the FIDE flag. FIDE Deputy president Bachar Kouatly drew the lots for Alireza Firouzja, Michael Khodarkovsky for Fabiano Caruana (a number was automatically assigned to Hikaru Nakamura), Mahir Mammedov for Teimour Radjabov, Zhu Chen for Richard Rapport, and Łukasz Turlej for Jan–Krzysztof Duda.

These are the starting numbers:

GM Duda, Jan–Krzysztof
GM Ding, Liren
GM Caruana, Fabiano
GM Radjabov, Teimour
GM Firouzja, Alireza
GM Nakamura, Hikaru
GM Nepomniachtchi, Ian
GM Rapport, Richard

Round–by–round pairings:

Round 1, June 17

Duda – Rapport

Ding – Nepomniachtchi

Caruana – Nakamura

Radjabov – Firouzja

Round 2, June 18

Rapport – Firouzja

Nakamura – Radjabov

Nepomniachtchi – Caruana

Duda – Ding

Round 3, June 19

Ding – Rapport

Caruana – Duda

Radjabov – Nepomniachtchi

Firouzja – Nakamura

Round 4, June 21

Rapport – Nakamura

Nepomniachtchi – Firouzja

Duda – Radjabov

Ding – Caruana

Round 5, June 22

Caruana – Rapport

Radjabov – Ding

Firouzja – Duda

Nakamura – Nepomniachtchi

Round 6, June 23

Radjabov – Rapport

Firouzja – Caruana

Nakamura – Ding

Nepomniachtchi – Duda

Round 7, June 25

Rapport – Nepomniachtchi

Duda – Nakamura

Ding – Firouzja

Caruana – Radjabov

Round 8, June 26

Rapport – Duda

Nepomniachtchi – Ding

Nakamura – Caruana

Firouzja – Radjabov

Round 9, June 27

Firouzja – Rapport

Radjabov – Nakamura

Caruana – Nepomniachtchi

Ding – Duda

Round 10, June 29

Rapport – Ding

Duda – Caruana

Nepomniachtchi – Radjabov

Nakamura – Firouzja

Round 11, June 30

Nakamura – Rapport

Firouzja – Nepomniachtchi

Radjabov – Duda

Caruana – Ding

Round 12, July 1

Rapport – Caruana

Ding – Radjabov

Duda – Firouzja

Nepomniachtchi – Nakamura

Round 13, July 3

Nepomniachtchi – Rapport

Nakamura – Duda

Firouzja – Ding

Radjabov – Caruana

Round 14, July 4

Rapport – Radjabov

Caruana – Firouzja

Ding – Nakamura

Duda – Nepomniachtchi