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On 22 August 2022, CONMEBOL sent a request to FIFA asking to keep the current qualification format that has been used since the 1998 World Cup qualification in South America. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] This was confirmed, with the first games of the qualifiers tentatively to be played in March or June 2023.
On 12 March 2020, FIFA announced that matches on matchdays 1–2 due to take place in March 2020 were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the new dates to be confirmed. [ 16 ] On 25 June 2020, FIFA announced that the inter-confederation play-offs , originally scheduled to be played in March 2022, were moved to June 2022.
If tied on aggregate, extra time would not be played, and a penalty shoot-out was used to determine the winners (Regulations Article 2.4.4). The final was played as a single match at a venue pre-selected by CONMEBOL, with the higher-seeded team designated as the "home" team for administrative purposes (Regulations Article 2.2.6).
The North, Central American and Caribbean section of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification will act as the qualifiers for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Canada, Mexico and the United States, for national teams which are members of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football ().
This was the second time that the United States hosted the tournament, having hosted the Copa América Centenario in 2016. Argentina was the defending champion, [ 3 ] and won a record sixteenth title after defeating Colombia 1–0 after extra time in the final , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] which was played on July 14, 2024, at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami ...
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.
Two-time defending Copa América champions Chile did not qualify for 2018 FIFA World Cup after a 3–0 loss to Brazil on the final day of qualifying campaign, resulting in a sixth-place finish. As a result, following intercontinental play-offs against the record five-time OFC Nations Cup champions New Zealand , Peru qualified for the World Cup ...
4–12 October 2021 Second leg However, on 25 June 2020, following FIFA's decision to postpone the September 2020 international window because of the COVID-19 pandemic , CONCACAF noted that "the challenges presented by postponements to the football calendar, and the incomplete FIFA rankings cycle in our confederation, means our current World ...