Which countries qualified?
Twenty-nine of the 32 positions have been filled. Hosts Qatar. Africa Cameroon, Ghana, Morocco, Senegal, Tunisia. Asia Iran, Japan, Saudi Arabia, South Korea. North, Central America and Caribbean Canada, Mexico, USA. Europe Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland. South America Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Uruguay.
What about the other three slots?
The last European anchor is expected to be decided in June with Scotland facing Ukraine in a play-off semi-final and the winners facing Wales. Scotland manager Steve Clark has suggested that these games could be further delayed. The other two places will go to the winners of the intercontinental playoffs, which will be held on June 13-14 in Qatar, with Costa Rica facing New Zealand and Peru facing the United Arab Emirates or Australia, playing for the first time. plays the Asian Confederation playoffs in Doha on June 7. The World Cup on display in Doha at the FIFA Congress on Thursday. Photo: Michael Regan / Fifa / Getty Images
How will the draw be made?
The teams are divided into four pots based on the FIFA rankings published on Thursday. Pot 1 includes Qatar as the hosts and the seven teams with the highest ranking. Pot 2 has the next eight teams with the highest qualifications, Pot 3 the eight with the highest qualifications after it, and Pot 4 the five teams with the best rankings after that and the placeholders representing the two winners of the intercontinental playoff and the remaining winner of the European playoffs. Pot 1 Qatar, Brazil, Belgium, France, Argentina, England, Spain, Portugal. Pot 2 Mexico, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Uruguay, Switzerland, USA, Croatia. Pot 3 Senegal, Iran, Japan, Morocco, Serbia, Poland, South Korea, Tunisia. Pot 4 Cameroon, Canada, Ecuador, Saudi Arabia, Ghana, Wales / Scotland / Ukraine, Costa Rica / New Zealand, Peru / UAE / Australia. Each World Cup team will contain one team from each pot. First each group in Pot 1 will be given a group and then each group in Pot 2, 3 and 4 will be given eight groups of four. Each container will be emptied before the next container is drawn. Qatar will take the A1 position, but in any other case a ball will be pulled from a team container, then a ball from a team container to determine where it will be placed. The teams of the same confederation will remain separate in the groups with the exception of the European teams, of which there will be 13. Five of the eight groups will have two European teams.
When will the tournament take place?
It lasts from November 21 to December 18 in eight places.
