The World Cup qualifiers are divided into six divisions, namely Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, North America and Oceania. Each division needs to formulate the rules of the qualifiers 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 conduct qualifiers in their respective divisions to compete for the places in the World Cup finals.
The World Cup group stage is that 32 teams entering the World Cup finals are divided into 8 groups by lottery, with 4 teams in each group, and the top two teams in each group will qualify for 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.
At present, the World Cup grouping is like this:
Group A: South Africa, Mexico, Uruguay and France
Group B: Argentina Nigeria Korea Greece
Group C: England, USA, Algeria and Slovenia
Group D: Germany Australia Serbia Ghana
Group E: Netherlands, Denmark, Japan and Cameroon
Group F: Italy Paraguay New Zealand Slovakia
Group G: Brazil, South Korea, C? te d 'Ivoire and Portugal
Group H: Spain, Switzerland, Honduras and Chile