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The qualifying matches are being held in a total of 18 matchdays on dates that fall within the FIFA International Match Calendar. [17] The match schedule is the same that was used in the previous edition of the competition. Six matchdays will be played in 2023, six in 2024 and also six in 2025. [15]
The FIFA International Match Calendar (sometimes abbreviated as the FIFA Calendar) is an outline agreement between FIFA, the six continental football confederations, the European Club Association, and FIFPro, [1] which sets out which dates can be used for "official" and "friendly" international matches. Individual periods of these dates are ...
On 28 February 2023, CONCACAF announced the qualifying format for 2026 World Cup qualification. [25] First round: Four CONCACAF teams, ranked 29 to 32 based on the FIFA ranking of December 2023, were divided into two matchups to be played on a two-legged home-and-away basis. The two winners advanced to the second round.
The bottom four CONCACAF teams, ranked 29 to 32 based on the FIFA rankings of December 2023, were divided into two matchups to be played on a two-legged home-and-away basis. The pairings were predetermined, with the 29th ranked team facing the 32nd ranked team, and the 30th ranked team facing the 31st ranked team.
Teams were drawn into nine groups of six teams and will play home-and-away round robin matches from November 2023 to October 2025. The winners of each group will qualify directly to the 2026 FIFA World Cup , and the four best group runners-up will advance to a play-off to determine which team will advance to the inter-confederation play-offs .
The draw for the first and second rounds of joint qualification took place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 27 July 2023. [5] [6] The top 26 ranked teams were given byes to the second round, while the 20 teams entering the first round were seeded into two pots of 10 teams each and drawn alternately from pot 1 then pot 2 to form a pairing. The team ...
A revised qualification format was confirmed by the UEFA Executive Committee during their meeting in Nyon, Switzerland, on 25 January 2023. As the number of final tournament slots for UEFA has increased from 13 to 16, [1] the qualification format was modified from the previous cycle. The qualifying group stage will feature twelve groups of four ...
2022 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL) Tournament details; Dates: 8 October 2020 – 29 March 2022: Teams: 10 (from 1 confederation) Tournament statistics