In the early morning of January 28, Beijing time, in the Asian Quarterfinals of the World Preliminary Round, Iran defeated Iraq 1-0 and qualified 3 rounds in advance, becoming the first Asian team to qualify for the World Cup finals besides the host Qatar!
The Round of 12 is divided into two groups, with the top two in each group qualifying directly, and the third place in the group advances to the play-offs. In the first 6 rounds of the war, Iran won 5 and drew 16 points, ranking first in Group A, and the qualifying situation was very good.
In this round against Iraq, Iran broke the deadlock in the 48th minute, and Porto striker Taremi scored the only goal to win 1-0!
In this way, Iran has accumulated 19 points in 7 rounds of 6 wins and 1 draw, at least 10 points ahead of the third place UAE, and completely locked in the top two of the group with 3 rounds left, directly advancing to the World Cup finals!
Host Qatar directly participated in the World Cup, so Iran became the first team to qualify from the Asian qualifiers. This will be their sixth time in history to participate in the World Cup, and the third consecutive time, the last time they missed the final round, was in 2010.
So far, the 2022 World Cup Round of 32 has been born 14 seats, they are:
Host: Qatar
Asia: Iran
Europe: Germany, Denmark, France, Belgium, Croatia, Spain, Serbia, England, Switzerland, Netherlands
South America: Brazil, Argentina