For more than 80 years, the World Cup champion has never fallen behind Europe and South America. Although the South American national team has been in a low level in the past decade, it still exists far beyond the other four FIFA players. South America has never missed the play-offs with other divisions, and all ten countries in South America are in the top 32 (Venezuela, the only country in South America that has not entered the World Cup, is also ranked above 20 by FIFA). When you meet South America, football understanding is not in one dimension.
rules of a contest/competition
Asia
201April 16, at the meeting of the AFC executive Committee, the new competition system of Russia's 20 18 Asian World Cup was formally adopted. The biggest change is that in the past, the top ten in the final stage of Asian regional qualifiers will become 12, so that there will be no team bye in every round and the game will become more fair.
In addition, the number of teams participating in the final stage of the 20 19 Asian Cup will be increased from 16 to 24, and the qualifiers for the second half of the World Cup in Russia will be merged with those for the 20 19 Asian Cup. According to the latest competition system, the Asian preliminaries of the 20 18 World Cup in Russia will be divided into three stages.
The first stage: AFC teams ranked lower in the world will qualify according to the 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.
Europe
* * * A total of 53 teams participated in the qualifiers, divided into 9 groups, and enjoyed the qualifying quota of 13. The preliminaries are divided into two stages: the first stage: 53 teams are divided into 9 groups for home and away games, with 6 teams in each group and 5 teams in one group. The top nine teams in each group directly won the World Cup places; The top eight teams entered the second stage.
The second stage: The eight teams that advanced to the second stage will be eliminated at home and away, and the four winning teams will get the World Cup places.
South America. See AMERICA
South America * * *, with 10 teams, still adopts the round robin system, starting from September or 10 in the second year of the last World Cup. FIFA still allocates 4.5 places for South American teams to participate in the World Cup finals. That is, the top four directly advance, the fifth competes with other continents for a qualification to participate in the finals, and the winner advances.
On September 15, 2020, the South American Football Association confirmed that although the COVID-19 epidemic in South America is still not over, the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualifier will be held in June 10, and the 2022 World Cup South American regional qualifier was originally planned to start in March this year, but it was postponed indefinitely due to the epidemic.
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