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The 2012 qualification replicated the format of that of 2000: places were taken by nine group winners and the best runner-up, while the other runners-up determined four more finalists via play-offs, with the two host countries qualifying by default. Starting from 2016, the finals format was expanded again, now featuring 24 teams.
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.
The competition was linked with the 2022–23 UEFA Nations League, which gave countries a secondary route to qualify for the final tournament. [1] A total of 53 UEFA member associations entered the qualifying process. The draw for the qualifying group stage took place at the Festhalle in Frankfurt on 9 October 2022. [2]
The European section of the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification acted as qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Qatar, for national teams that are members of the Union of European Football Associations . [1] A total of 13 slots in the final tournament were available for UEFA teams. [2]
In European football, the UEFA coefficients are statistics based in weighted arithmetic means used for ranking and seeding teams in club and international competitions. . Introduced in 1979 for men's football tournaments (country rankings only), [1] [2] and after applied in women's football and futsal, the coefficients are calculated by UEFA, who administer football within Europe, and the ...
A country's ranking determines the number of teams competing in the season after the next; the 2009 rankings determined qualification for European competitions in the 2010–11 season. [5] A country's ranking is calculated based on the results of its clubs in UEFA competitions over the past five seasons.
The top-ranked UEFA competition is the UEFA Champions League, which started in 1955 as the European Champion Clubs' Cup (or simply the European Cup) and initially only gathered the top team of each country; this competition has since been expanded to gather the top 1–4 teams of each country's league (the number of teams depend on that country ...
The groups for qualification are drawn by a UEFA committee using seeding. Seeded teams include reigning champions and other teams based on their performance in the preceding FIFA World Cup qualifying and the last European Championship qualifying. To obtain an accurate view of the teams' abilities, a ranking is produced.