How to draw lots for the top 32 World Cups?

The top 32 of the World Cup are divided into eight groups. After the group stage, the top two players in each group get the right to qualify for the group, before entering 16. After that, A 1-B2, B 1-A2, C 1-D2, D 1-C2 in the eight groups were eliminated, and so on.

Eight winning teams entered the top eight. In the knockout stage, if the two sides draw within 90 minutes, there will be 30 minutes of overtime, and then a draw will be decided by penalty.

There are 32 places in the final stage of the World Cup, and the host country can directly get 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 places in the final stage.

From the 3rd World Cup of 1938, it is stipulated that the defending champion and the host country can advance directly. However, in 2002, due to the poor performance of the defending champion France in the World Cup in Korea and Japan, the defending champion had to participate in the World Cup qualifiers in his region from the 2006 World Cup qualifiers, so only the host country could qualify for the finals. The host country of the World Cup in South Africa failed to qualify from the group, but FIFA did not disqualify the host country from direct promotion.

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