The Spanish NOC and the Qatari NOC have renewed their memorandum of understanding, which has been in force since 2011. The MoU was signed by the two NOC presidents, Alejandro Blanco and Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, at a ceremony in Doha, which recently hosted the World Judo Championships.

Under the terms of the MoU, the two NOCs have, among other things, committed to furthering cooperation in areas such as sharing best practices related to high-level athlete training programmes, exchanging information around the staging of international events, developing refugee athlete programmes and organising training camps in the two countries.