Sohu Sports News On June 23rd, Beijing time, 10, FIFA announced the specific drawing process for the World Cup (World Cup news, first the World Cup) qualifiers on all continents. At that time, China's opponent will be finalized in the Asian Top 20 Competition held in Durban on Sunday.
The draw will be held on 25th Durban local time 17 (23: 00 Beijing time on 25th). The lottery ceremony will be presided over by FIFA Secretary-General Walker. First, the draw for the third stage competition in Asia will begin, followed by the draw for Central and North America, the Caribbean, Europe and Africa.
Each continent has a detailed lottery process, which FIFA introduced separately. This lucky draw will be the third stage competition in Asia. * * * A total of 20 teams are divided into 5 groups, and the top two in each group will participate in the fourth stage 10 competition.
The following is the specific process of drawing lots for the top 20 Asian countries:
1.20 teams will be assigned to 4 tanks, with 5 teams in each tank, 5 seed teams in A tank, and 5 teams in Grade 2 will enter B tank, followed by C tank and D tank. In other words, the secondary China will enter the B tank.
2.20 teams will be divided into 5 groups with 4 teams in each group.
3. The team of D tanks draws first, then C tanks, B tanks and A tanks.
4. The team of D tank will be arranged in the fourth position of five groups, the team of C tank will be arranged in the third position, the team of B tank will be arranged in the second position, and the team of A tank will be arranged in the first position.
5. The drawn teams will be replenished from the first group to the fifth group in turn.
Combined with the ranking order of the top 20 announced by the AFC before, according to the above process, there will be five teams from Qatar, Syria, Thailand, Turkmenistan and Singapore in Cylinder D, which will be ranked in the first group to the fourth group in turn after random drawing. Qatar is undoubtedly the strongest team in this level.
Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman and the United Arab Emirates will also be randomly selected from C tanks, ranking third from the first group to the fifth group. The Asian Cup champion Iraq is the strongest in this class.
Then there is the B tank that China fans are most concerned about, which contains five teams: Bahrain, Uzbekistan, Kuwait, North Korea and China. They will also be randomly selected, ranking second from the first group to the fifth group. At this time, China's other two opponents in the group have also confirmed that it will be a good draw for China if it can avoid Qatar and Iraq.
Finally, five A cans where the seed teams are located are drawn, namely Australia, South Korea, Iran, Japan and Saudi Arabia. After random drawing, they will rank first in the first to fifth groups. By this time, China's opponents were all confirmed.