1 and 53 participating teams are divided into 9 groups with 6 teams in each group (including 5 teams in Group 9). Each team played the home and away round robin, and the first place in the group directly advanced to the World Cup in Brazil. Eight of the top nine teams will take part in the European play-offs.
The first place in Group A~I is Belgium, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, England and Spain.
2. The second place of the top eight teams (according to the results of the first, third, fourth and fifth places in this group) is divided into two grades according to the rankings of FIFA 20 13 and 10, with 4 teams in each grade. Then draw lots to decide a one-on-one game and conduct two rounds of home and away games. The team that wins the total score will qualify for the World Cup in Brazil.
In the latest FIFA world ranking in June 20 13, Portugal (No.14), Greece (No.15), Croatia (No.18) and Ukraine (No.20) were ranked as the first echelon (seed team). France (No.21), Sweden (No.25), Romania (No.29) and Iceland (No.46) ranked second.
Advance list: Belgium, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, England, Spain, France, Croatia, Greece and Portugal.
Extended data
20 14 world cup qualifiers * * * produced 3 1 qualifying places to participate in the 20 14 world cup. Brazil, the host country, advanced directly to the final week.
Among the places in the preliminaries, 25 are direct promotion places, and the remaining 6 are play-off places, including 4 in Europe and 2 across continents. The World Cup qualifiers * * * have teams from 202 countries and regions on 6 continents (except Bhutan, Brunei, Guam, Mauritania, Mauritius and Bahamas), and * * * have 8 18 matches.
Distribution of qualified seats
According to the strength of each continent, the qualifying teams of each continent are determined, and the distribution is as follows:
Europe -53 teams, 13 qualifying seats.
Africa -53 teams and 5 qualifying seats.
South America -9 teams with 4.5 qualifying seats.
Asia -43 teams with 4.5 qualifying seats.
Central and North America and the Caribbean -35 teams with 3.5 qualified seats.
Oceania-1 1 team, with 0.5 qualifying seats (including 20 12 Oceania Cup)
In addition to Europe and Africa, the other four continents must decide their seats for the last two weeks through intercontinental play-offs. The preliminaries will start on June 20th115, and 3 1 teams will participate in the final. The draw for the qualifiers was held in Rio de Janeiro on July 30th.
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