Take Asia as an example, the first stage of Asian World Cup qualifiers usually starts in the second half of the first year after the last World Cup, and the cycle lasts until the end of the first half of the second year. The second stage of the qualifiers begins in the second half of the second year and lasts until the end of the first half of the third year.
The World Cup preliminaries, referred to as "World Cup preliminaries", are the intercontinental knockout matches in which FIFA registered member countries (regions) participate in the World Cup. They will be held in six regions: Europe, South America, Central and North America and the Caribbean, Asia, Africa and Oceania.
On June 5438+ 10, 2023, the Executive Committee of UEFA held a meeting in Switzerland, and a number of European events will be reorganized. The European preliminaries and world preliminaries will be changed from 10 to 12, with 4 or 5 teams in each group. The competition system of European Cup qualifiers and World Cup European qualifiers will be more unified, and teams will be divided into 12 groups, with 4 or 5 teams in each group, which will increase the uncertainty of the competition.
rules of a contest/competition
The first stage: AFC teams ranked lower in the world will play qualifiers according to their home and away games.
The second stage: it consists of the winning team in the first stage of qualifying and 40 teams that did not participate in qualifying. It was divided into 8 groups, with 5 teams in each group playing in the top 40, and the first place in each group and the second place in the four best teams advanced to the third stage 12.
The third stage: 65,438+02 teams are divided into two groups to play home and away games. The first two teams directly advanced to the final stage of the World Cup in Russia, and the two teams decided to take the third place to compete for another World Cup place with other continents.