Conmebol, Concacaf, UEFA Qualifiers and more: classified, how the other quotas are defined and playoffs

The Qatar 2022 Qualifying all over the world are coming to an end. In the next month, we will see mostly the teams that will play the next World Cup, a tournament that will be played at the end of this year. Seventeen tickets are still at stake (of the 32 total) for the Qatar-2022 World Cup, which will see decisive matches in the coming days in which big names are at risk, as is the case in Europe, where Italy or Portugal They play it all or nothing. Check here which countries have already qualified, how the other quotas are defined and those that could dispute the playoffs.

WHAT MATCHES ARE LEFT IN THE SOUTH AMERICA QUALIFYING – CONMEBOL

• Participating teams: 10
• Places for the World Cup: 4 or 5
• Teams already classified: 2

In back of Brazil and Argentinaalready qualified for the World Cup, the fight is exciting in the last two days of the Conmebol qualifiers, where the four best teams have a direct ticket to Doha and the fifth-placed team must play an intercontinental playoff. Ecuadorthird with four points ahead of the fifth, seems close to the World Cup before his trip to Paraguay.

The other direct qualifying place and fifth place in the playoffs will probably be decided in a three-way battle between Uruguay, Peru and Chile, who are within a margin of three points, without forgetting Colombia, which retains options, despite being four points behind fifth place. the duels Uruguay-Peru and Chile-UruguayThursday and Tuesday, can be worth their weight in gold.

HOW THE QUALIFIERS ARE GOING IN EUROPE 2022

• Participating teams (at the start of the qualifiers): 55
• Places for the World Cup: 13
• Teams already qualified: 10

At least one of the last two European champions (Portugal and Italy) will not be in Qatar. The draw for the European play-off teams was capricious and determined that the Seleçao and the Nazionale, if they make it through the semifinals on Thursday against Turkey and North Macedonia respectively, have to face each other directly on Tuesday the 29th, with a ticket at stake.

The World Cup is therefore in danger for Cristiano Ronaldo or for the European champion Azzurra. If Turks or Normans give the surprise, it could be the case to see both Portuguese and Italians outside Qatar. Two other tickets will be awarded in the European playoffs, but Russia will not have them, after being excluded by FIFA, which directly qualified Robert Lewandowski’s Poland for the playoff final on Tuesday 29, against Sweden or the Czech Republic, who face Thursday.

Also on Thursday, Wales and Austria will meet in the semifinal of their draw. The winner will have to wait to meet his opponent in the play-off final, as the Scotland-Ukraine match was postponed to June due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

QUALIFYING IN AFRICA 2022

• Participating teams: 54
• Places for the World Cup: 5
• Teams already classified: 0

Sadio Mané and Mohamed Salah, the stars of Liverpool, will meet again for a new episode of their duel, after the final of the African Cup of Nations that Senegal beat Egypt (4-2 on penalties after a 0-0 draw).

In their two-way playoff, the first leg on Thursday is in Cairo.

The other star duel of the African ‘playoffs’ measures two World Cup regulars, Cameroon (7 appearances, an African record) and Algeria (4 appearances). Of the ten teams in the ‘playoffs’, only Mali has never played a World Cup. His rival in the decisive pulse for a place is Tunisia. Morocco is presented as a favorite in the pulse against the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The other African ticket is decided between two other powers of the continent, Ghana and Nigeria.

WHAT IS MISSING IN THE ASIA 2022 QUALIFYING

Participating teams: 46

Places for the World Cup: 5 or 6

Teams already classified: 3

Qatar already had its ticket in its pocket as the host country of the World Cup. Iran validated theirs in late January and South Korea in early February. In Group B of the Asian Qualifiers, everything remains to be decided and the battle will end on March 29. The first two get a place for Qatar-2022.

In the lead, Saudi Arabia is just one point ahead of Japan and a four point margin over Australia, which has the opportunity to turn the situation around, as it faces the two teams that precede it in the table in the coming days. . The two third-placed groups (currently the United Arab Emirates in group A and Australia in group B) would face each other at the end of the qualifiers in a two-legged duel. The winner will participate in an intercontinental playoff, round trip, against a representative from Oceania, South America or Concacaf.

THIS IS HOW THE CONCACAF QUALIFYING GOES

• Participating teams: 35
• Places for the World Cup: 3 or 4
• Teams already classified: 0

Canada, the United States and Mexico are in pole position to achieve their World Cup ticket in the Concacaf zone, where a fourth country must play an intercontinental playoff. Three games remain to be played in the final round of the qualifiers, where Panama and Costa Rica retain options. The Mexico-United States duel on March 24 will be one of the most anticipated of the week.

THE QUALIFIERS IN OCEANIA

• Participating teams: 11
• Places for the World Cup: 0 or 1
• Teams already classified: 0

In recent days a qualifying tournament began in Qatar, with the presence especially of New Zealand, Solomon Islands and Tahiti. The winner of that tournament, designated on March 30, will participate in an intercontinental playoff.

SOURCE: AFP

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