The draw for the top 40 will be held on April 1 1 day, and the draw will be based on the latest FIFA ranking. Judging from the performance of the national football team in the Asian Cup, it is basically no problem for the country to participate in the top 40 as a seed. The top 40 matches are divided into 8 groups, and each group also adopts the home and away double round robin system. The second stage of the competition lasted from June, 1965 to March 29, 1965.
In the end, the first place and the four teams with the best performance in each group of eight groups won the second place, and a total of 12 teams entered the third and final round of the qualifiers to compete for the World Cup Asian qualifying places.
In this way, the 20 18 Russian World Cup Asian Regional Qualifier was reduced by one round compared with the 20 14 Brazil World Cup Asian Regional Qualifier, and the teams participating in the final round changed from 18 to 12.
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There are 32 teams from five continents in this tournament. In addition to the host Russian team, the other 365,438+0 teams have already qualified through the qualifiers organized by the football associations on all continents.
In the early morning of July 18, Beijing time, France defeated Croatia 4-2 and won the 20 18 World Cup in Russia.
According to the scoring rules, the 32 participating teams are divided into four grades, the host Russian team is directly selected into the first seed team and enters Group A, and the remaining 365,438+0 teams will be divided into eight groups. The classification principle is based on the FIFA World Ranking +2007+65438 published on June 6, 2007. Each grade is divided into 8 teams, and each grade is randomly selected 1 team for grouping, which is divided into A-H group.
In addition to the Russian National Football Association, 3/kloc-0 teams from five continents have qualified for the World Cup finals, and each continent's football association holds its own qualifiers to decide the final qualifying team. Among them, Panama and Iceland advanced to the World Cup finals for the first time in history.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia -20 18 Asian World Cup qualifiers