Qualifying Qatar 2022: everything about the playoff that Conmebol’s fifth will have to play

There are only 4 dates left until the end of the Qualifiers to Qatar 2022. In South America, only Argentina and Brazil have their tickets to the World Cup insured. However, the peruvian team and the rest of the countries, except Venezuela, which no longer has a chance, look for the last 2 direct quotas and the repechage. In the coming days, it will be announced if there will be a new format or if the same format with which Peru classified Russia 2018 will be maintained.

Unlike other editions,

These new dates and the COVID-19 pandemic caused the dates of the Playoffs. That is why to date the 32 teams that will be present at the world.

Since this format is played all against all, only the repechage for the France 98 Qualifiers was not played. Then it developed with total normality. The format was a showdown with a team from Concacaf, Oceania or Asia.

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NEW FORMAT?

For this edition, it has not yet been decided if the same repechage format that has been carried out since the Playoffs Japan Korea 2002. If this trend continues, the team that occupies the fifth place in South America, would have to face a Concacaf country.

However, that format could change. Just as the playoffs changed in Europe where a single match was also played between the second places. And now they will play a kind of tournament to define the last classified.

According to the journalist Juan José Buscalia, FIFA proposes this option to shorten times and thus avoid problems with European clubs and the transfer of players. The game would be played in June.

In the next few days it will be announced how the playoffs will take place in these four continents. The truth is that Conmebol has every intention of maintaining the same format as always.

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