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The European section of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification competition will act as qualifiers for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Canada, Mexico and the United States, for national teams that are members of the Union of European Football Associations . A total of 16 slots in the final tournament are available for UEFA teams.
Group C consists of four teams: the loser of quarter-final 3 (Portugal or Denmark), Belarus, Greece and Scotland. The teams will play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format from September to November 2025. The group winner will qualify directly for the World Cup finals, while the runner-up will advance to the second round ...
The play-offs will determine the final four European teams that will join the twelve group winners at the World Cup in Canada, Mexico and the United States. The twelve runners-up from the UEFA first round groups will participate in the play-offs, along with four teams based on the 2024–25 UEFA Nations League interim overall ranking. The teams ...
The teams will play against each other home-and-away in a round-robin format from March to November 2025. However, as the loser of quarter-final 1 (Spain or the Netherlands) will be involved in the Nations League A quarter-finals in March, they will not begin their qualifying campaign until June 2025.
At every 32-team World Cup from 1998 through 2022, each group-stage day featured one-to-four games, usually three, each in its own time window. In 2018, for example, a typical day featured games ...
The 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification will decide the 45 teams that will join hosts Canada, Mexico, and the United States at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Qualification began on 7 September 2023 with three matches of the CONMEBOL zone played that day. [1] The first goal of the qualification series was scored by Colombian player Rafael Santos Borré.
Two of the teams will be seeded based on the World Rankings, and they will play the winners of two knockout games between the four unseeded teams for the two FIFA World Cup berths. The four-game tournament is to be played in one or more of the host countries, and will also be used as a test event for the FIFA World Cup. [57]
The 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification UEFA Group D is one of the twelve UEFA groups in the World Cup qualification tournament to decide which teams will qualify for the 2026 FIFA World Cup final tournament in Canada, Mexico and the United States. [1]