Each game lasts 90 minutes, and the winning, drawing and losing points are 3, 1 and 0 respectively. The top two teams in each group advanced to the knockout 1/8 finals, and the *** 16 team was "top 16".
The qualifying rules for the group stage are as follows:
A, the person with the highest score ranks first.
B, the group with the highest goal difference ranks first.
C, the group with the highest total number of goals ranks first.
Extended data:
The World Cup schedule is divided into two stages: preliminary and final. The World Cup preliminaries are divided into six divisions, namely Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, North America and Oceania. Each division needs to formulate preliminary rules according to its own actual situation.
However, teams from FIFA member countries (regions) who sign up for the World Cup need to hold qualifiers in their respective divisions to compete for seats in the World Cup finals.
There are 32 places in the final stage of the World Cup, and the host country can directly obtain the places in the final stage. Except for the host country, other places are allocated by FIFA according to the football level of each qualifying area, and different qualifying areas will have different numbers of places in the final stage.
From the third World Cup on 1938, it was stipulated that the defending champion and the host country could advance directly, but in the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan, the defending champion France performed poorly.
Therefore, FIFA stipulates that from the 2006 World Cup qualifiers, defending champions need to participate in the World Cup qualifiers in their respective regions, so that only the host country can qualify for the finals. The host of the World Cup in South Africa failed to qualify for the group, but FIFA did not disqualify the host from direct promotion.
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