DBasia.news – These two weeks in the midst of the international break are crucial days in determining the teams that qualify for the 2022 World Cup. A number of teams have already qualified and several other teams will go through the play-off phase.
The 2022 World Cup will take place in Qatar in December 2022 and quite a few surprises have occurred. Until now, Tuesday (16/11) there have been 11 countries that have succeeded in getting tickets to qualify for the World Cup.
The first country that is certain to qualify is the host Qatar. The 2022 World Cup will be the debut for Felix Sanchez’s team who have never appeared in World Cup history – have never qualified before.
After Qatar, another country that has secured a ticket to the 2022 World Cup is the 2014 World Cup winner, Germany. Hans-Dieter Flick’s team became the second country to get tickets to Qatar.
Germany got it last October after a win over North Macedonia and sits at the top of Group J. After Germany followed Denmark, who won 1-0 over Austria and topped Group F.
From South America, a country that has won five World Cups, Brazil became the first country from South America to secure a ticket to the 2022 World Cup. Tite’s Brazil won over Colombia in the November international break and got that certainty.
The struggle continues for some teams. Regarding how many teams can qualify for the 2022 World Cup, the details of the allocation are: four or five teams from Asia (AFC), five teams from Africa (CAF), three or four teams from CONCACAF (Caribbean, North and Central America) , CONMEBOL (South America) with four or five teams, UEFA (Europe) 13 positions, OFC (Oceania) with one place or not.
Here are the 11 countries that have qualified for the 2022 World Cup (as of this writing):
1. Qatar
2. Germany
3. Denmark
4. Brazil
5. Belgium
6. France
7. Croatia
8. Spain
9. Serbia
10. English
11. Switzerland
Here are the eight teams that will go through the play-off phase of the 2022 World Cup:
1. Portugal
2. Scotland
3. Italy
4. Russia
5. Sweden
6. Poland
7. Wales
8. North Macedonia