In the preliminaries, 55 European teams were divided into 10 groups to compete for 13 qualifying seats. France, Ukraine, Finland, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kazakhstan are in Group D..
In the European preliminaries, France scored 5 wins and 3 draws in 8 matches, ranking first in the group with the score of 18, beating Ukraine, Finland and Bosnia and Herzegovina to qualify for the World Cup.
The 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualifiers are a series of events jointly organized by FIFA football associations in six continents, with the aim of determining 3 1 national or regional football teams that will participate in the 2022 FIFA World Cup finals, except Qatar, the host country.
The World Cup preliminaries started on June 6th, 20 19. The first match was Mongolia versus Brunei, and the last match, Costa Rica versus New Zealand, ended on June 4th, 2022. [14] Mongolian player Zedenbar scored the first goal in the World Cup preliminaries, and the last goal was scored by Costa Rican player joel campbell.
Compared with previous preliminaries, there is no unified lottery ceremony in this preliminaries, but the football associations of all continents draw lots separately. Due to the influence of COVID-19 epidemic, the schedule of this World Cup preliminaries has been postponed many times since March 2020.