With only a few teams remaining to complete the 32 spots for the Qatar 2022 World Cup in the summer, we look at which teams have booked their place at the tournament.
Here are the federation by federation breakdown as well as the potential inter-confederation playoff match-ups.
World Cup qualifying has been coming thick and fast over the past few days as the final spots get confirmed ahead of Friday’s draw.
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Remarkably, we still won’t know every team who will be playing at Qatar 2022 by the end of this window with the inter-confederation playoffs coming on June 13-14 as well as Ukraine’s tie with Scotland getting pushed to June.
Host Nation
Qatar have long been confirmed for obvious reasons. It might be the last time for a while that we see a single team qualify automatically with a three-way host in 2026 (US, Canada, and Mexico) and plenty of multi-team bids for 2030. Do with that information what you will.
Europe
Okay, so a quick rundown for those who might forget. 10 groups with either five or six teams. The top team qualifies automatically. The 10 runners-up as well as the two best Nations League group winners went into a 12-team playoff structure with three effective paths of four teams each that will provide three qualified teams.
On Tuesday night, Poland and Portugal booked their places. That gives us the following list of qualified teams from Europe:
Germany
Denmark
France
Belgium
Croatia
Spain
Serbia
England
Switzerland
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Scotland or Ukraine or Wales
South American
10 South American teams play each other home and away. Top four go through automatically and the fifth team goes into inter-confederation play-offs. Here are the representatives.
Brazil
Argentina
Ecuador
Uruguay
Peru/Colombia/Chile go to an inter-confederation playoff
Africa
Three rounds (knockouts then group stage then knockouts) leave us with five teams to represent Africa. Those five have been confirmed tonight following the culmination of the two-legged play-offs.
Senegal
Cameroon
Ghana
Morocco
Tunisia
North America
Three rounds leave us with eight teams battling for three automatic spots and one inter-confederation place. Here are the teams that are through.
Canada
USA/Mexico/Costa Rica
USA/Mexico/Costa Rica
USA/Mexico/Costa Rica go to inter-confederation playoff
Asia
Another with three rounds. The third round has two groups of six teams. Top two in each group go through automatically. The two third-placed teams will face off to determine who goes through to the inter-confederation playoff. Here are the teams that are through.
South Korea
Iran
Japan
Saudi Arabia
Australia/United Arab Emirates will go through to inter-confederation playoff.
OFC
New Zealand and Solomon Islands will face each other to see who goes through to the inter-confederation play-off. The qualified team is therefore pretty simple.
New Zealand/Solomon Islands
Inter-federation playoffs
Here are the two playoff permutations. They will be AFC (Asia) v CONMEBOL (South America) and CONCACAF (North America) v OFC (Oceania).
Australia/United Arab Emirates v Peru/Colombia/Chile
USA/Mexico/Costa Rica v New Zealand/Solomon Islands
List of 2022 World Cup Teams in Full
27 out of 32 places confirmed:
Qatar
Germany
Denmark
France
Belgium
Croatia
Spain
Serbia
England
Switzerland
Netherlands
Brazil
Argentina
Ecuador
Uruguay
Iran
South Korea
Japan
Saudi Arabia
Canada
Poland
Portugal
Senegal
Ghana
Morocco
Tunisia
Cameroon