The 2022 Fifa World Cup in Qatar will be the last World Cup of 32 teams, and FIFA will expand its presence in the next World Cup. In the early morning of June 15, Beijing time, the last team to qualify for the World Cup finals was born, Central And American and Caribbean Costa Rica in the play-offs with New Zealand to reach the World Cup finals, so far, the 2022 Qatar World Cup finals of all the teams produced, the host Qatar, Europe A total of 13 teams to promote, South America 4 teams, North America and the Caribbean 4 teams, Africa 5 teams, Asia has 6 teams to promote. For the first time, six teams in the Asian zone advanced to the World Cup, creating Asian history.
The European zone is the big player in the World Cup, with a total of 13 promotion places, the European zone qualifiers are divided into 10 groups, each group top directly advanced, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Croatia, England, Germany respectively won the first direct promotion of the group. The 2nd and 2nd teams with the best Results in the European League from each group form 3 play-off groups, with the winner of the group winning the place to advance. In the end, Portugal, Wales and Poland managed to emerge from the play-offs to qualify for the World Cup.
A total of six teams in the Asian region advanced to the World Cup finals. Outside the host Qatar, the Asian Qualifiers Round of 12 are divided into 2 groups, the top two in the group directly advance, Iran, South Korea, Japan and Saudi Arabia successfully advance from the round of 12 to advance to the World Cup, Australia and the United Arab Emirates play-offs with the third place in the group, Australia successfully advanced to the intercontinental play-offs, the Asian region and South America compete for a World Cup place, And Australia finally defeated Peru on penalties to advance to the World Cup finals through the play-offs for two consecutive years.
There are 5 World Cup places in the African region, the first stage of the African regional qualifiers is divided into 10 groups, the top of the group advances to the top 10, the top 10 draws form 5 groups for home and away two-legged knockouts, and finally Morocco, Tunisia, Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal successfully qualified for the 2022 Qatar World Cup finals.
There are a total of 4.5 World Cup places in the South American region, 10 teams in South America play a home-and-away double round robin format, and finally Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Ecuador rank in the top four to qualify for the promotion, Peru ranked 5th, qualified for the intercontinental play-offs, the result in the intercontinental play-offs, Peru and Australia for 120 minutes, a 0-0 draw, penalty shootout lost to Australia 4-5, missed the World Cup regular.
There are a total of 3.5 World Cup places in Central America and the Caribbean, and a total of 8 teams participate in the final rounds of Central And North America and the Caribbean, with a home-and-away double round robin format, and finally Canada, Mexico, and the United States rank the top three directly to advance to the World Cup. Costa Rica finished fourth and qualified for the Intercontinental Play-offs, which were played against New Zealand from Oceania, and in the end Costa Rica beat New Zealand to become the last team to qualify for the World Cup finals.
The final grouping situation of the 2022 Qatar World Cup is as follows: (Opening at 18:00 on November 21, 2022)
Group A: Qatar, Ecuador, Senegal, Netherlands
Group B: England, Iran, USA, Wales
Group C: Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Poland
Group D: France, Australia, Denmark, Tunisia
Group E: Spain, Costa Rica, Germany, Japan
Group F: Belgium, Canada, Morocco, Croatia
Group G: Brazil, Serbia, Switzerland, Cameroon
Group H: Portugal, Ghana, Uruguay, South Korea