World Cup competition system arrangement:
The World Cup schedule is divided into two stages: the preliminaries and the finals. The preliminaries are divided into six divisions, namely Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, North America and Oceania. Each division needs to formulate the rules of the preliminaries according to the actual situation of its own division, while teams from FIFA member countries (regions) who sign up for the World Cup need to hold preliminaries in their respective divisions to compete for the final seats. There are 32 places in the final stage of the World Cup, and the host of the final stage will directly get the places in the final stage. In addition to 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. Starting 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, FIFA stipulated that from the 2006 World Cup qualifiers, the defending champion needed to participate in the World Cup qualifiers in the region, so only the host country could qualify for the finals, and the South African World Cup host failed to qualify from the group. However, FIFA did not disqualify the host country from direct promotion. The host country of the final stage of the World Cup must be a FIFA member country (region). Member countries (regions) need to apply to FIFA (two member countries can jointly apply for hosting), and then all FIFA member countries (regions) will vote to decide. /baike.baidu.com/item/2065438+08% E4% B8% 96% E7% 95% 8c% E6% 9d% AF% E4% Ba% 9A% E6% B4% B2% E5% 8C% Ba% E9% A2% 84. Fr = Aladdin "target =" _ blank "title =" Baidu Encyclopedia -20 18 World Cup Asian qualifiers "> Baidu Encyclopedia -20 18 World Cup Asian qualifiers /baike. Baidu. com/item/ % E5 % 9b % BD % E9 % 99% 85% E8 % B6 % B3 % E8 % 8 1% 94% E4 % B8 % 96% E7。 from title = % E4 % B8 % 96% E7 % 95% 8C % E6 % 9D % AF & amp; From id =114085 "target =" _ blank "title =" Baidu Encyclopedia -FIFA World Cup "> Baidu Encyclopedia -FIFA World Cup