The 12th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) were held in Doha, Qatar on 3–7 December 2014.

[2] On 14 December 2010, FINA announced that Catania, Italy would host the 2014 Short Course Worlds.

[3] In November 2011, the Italian Swimming Federation (FIN) withdrew their support of Catania as host for the event, due to the Italian regional government's missing deadlines related to financial guarantees for the event.

On 4 April 2012, the FINA Bureau announced that Doha, Qatar would host the event.

A mixed relay (including men and women) world record was also broken.