Thirty-two teams were divided into eight groups by drawing lots, and each group had four teams to compete. Each team has to play with the other three teams, and only played one game. There are four teams in each group, and six games are played in a cycle, each game lasts for 90 minutes. The winning, flat and negative scores are 3, 1 and 0 respectively. The top two teams in each group got the qualification of 1.
There are 64 matches in the World Cup, including 48 group matches, 8 finals in 1/8, 4 finals in 1/4, 2 semi-finals, 34 finalists in 1 final, and the third runner-up in the championship 1 final.
World Cup Competition System
The World Cup schedule is divided into two stages: the preliminaries and the finals. The two stages of the World Cup preliminaries are divided into six competition areas, namely Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, North America and Oceania. Each division needs to formulate the rules of the World Cup 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 the preliminaries in their respective divisions to compete for the places in the World Cup finals.
At present, 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 places in the final stage. Note: 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 enter the top 32 finals.
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.
32 teams will go to the host country to compete for the championship in the final stage. In the final stage, 32 teams will be divided into 8 groups by lottery, with 4 teams in each group, and the top two teams in each group will be qualified to enter the semi-finals; After entering the semi-finals, 16 teams decided the schedule according to the established rules, no more lottery, and then single elimination matches were held until the champion was decided.
201765438+1October 10, FIFA officially announced that starting from the 2026 World Cup, the number of teams participating in the World Cup will be expanded to 48.
At the FIFA Congress in Manama, Bahrain, which ended in May 1 1, 2065438, FIFA revised the way of hosting the World Cup in turn. According to the resolution of the FIFA meeting, the member associations of countries and regions in South America, Central and North America and the Caribbean, Africa and Oceania are candidates.