Format, schedule and condition of the game for each confederation while UEFA joins the party

History will be made at the World Cup next year, and three countries played the host at the first 48-tier tournament.

The qualifying for the finals in North America has long since started five out of six confederations.

However, as local football briefly occupies the back seat, UEFA will join the party because some European teams, including England and Belgium, begin their way to qualifying.

It is the perfect moment, then, for the course of the course on how qualifying works for each confederation and how many teams will send to the renovated tournament.

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– England (@england) March 17, 2025

Afc

The Asian Confederation will see that eight teams qualify for the finals directly.

The AFC qualification is six games in the third round, and the remaining 18 teams competed in three groups of six. The best two teams in these groups will qualify for the World Cup, and the third and fourth placed teams are progressing in the fourth round.

In the fourth round, which begins in October, those six teams will be divided into two groups of three, and the winner of each group reserves its place in the tournament.

Two second-ranked teams will face each other in the playoffs with two feet in November for a place in the playoffs.

The third round will be concluded in June. Iran and Japan are already sure of at least a place in the fourth round, but they could include a place in the finals during this international window.

Kaf

The qualification process in Africa is clearer. Nine groups of six teams compete in an open Robin in the introductory round. The winners of the nine groups qualified for the World Cup.

From there, four of the best ranked group runners will compete in the playoffs, and the winner has progressed in the playoffs of the inter-confederation.

The first round, which is still in the relatively early stages with four games played, will conclude in October, and the playoffs took place a month later.

Concacaf

Three Concacaf teams are already safe in their place in the World Cup with the United States, Canada and Mexico because of the tournament hosts. There are 30 teams competing to request one of three places to join them.

The Concacaf qualification is in its second round phase, which will see the first and second -ranked teams from six groups of five in advance in the third round after four hand bark matches.

12 teams that progress in the third round will be divided into three groups of four for double matches with Roubin. Three winners of the group will hit their map for the World Cup, while the two of the best ranked runners will refer to the playoffs of the inter-confederation.

Each side played two match of the second round to this point. The following will be held in June three months before the start of the third round.

Kongmepar

The beauty of Conmebol’s qualification process is his simplicity, and 10 teams play 18 double round-roll games against each other.

The top six qualify for the World Cup, and the seventh-ranked team has progressed until the playoffs.

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– 🇦🇷 Argentine national team ⭐⭐⭐ (@argentina) March 17, 2025

Champion defender Argentina is on the qualifying box, collecting 25 points from 12 games to run the rankings, although La Albicelete faced Chile and the rivals of Brazil in this circle of the node.

Conmebol qualification will conclude in September.

Ofc

The smallest confederation is guaranteed only one place in the finals, and the identity of that qualification will be known next week.

Ofc is in his third and last round of qualification, a procedure that he concluded with three playoffs between four remaining teams.

On Thursday, the new Kaledonia will face Tahiti, and New Zealand will take over Fiji, and both games have taken place in Wellington. The two semi -finals of the winner then travel to Auckland to face the World Cup place next Tuesday. The loser will progress in the playoffs of inter-confeer.

New Zealand is obviously difficult favorites, their last defeat at ofc, the World Cup qualifiers, in 2008, when they lost 2-0 in Fiji.

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– New Zealand football 🇳🇿 (@nz_football) March 17, 2025

Uefa

UEFA has the highest team distribution for the extended finals. Sixteen teams from the European Confederation will qualify for the finals.

Fifty -four teams were drawn in 12 groups of four or five, and the group winners secured a qualification.

A dozen remaining group runners and four best teams of Uefa Nations League who did not end up in the first two in their qualifying group will enter the second round of playoffs.

The teams will be drawn into four playoffs with single semi -finals and finals. The winners of the four trails will qualify for the World Cup.

GL groups starts in this window and the rest followed the suit in September. The first round ends in November before the playoffs in the second round took place next March.

The playoffs of interconfederation

Six teams that are progressing until the part of the inter-confederation will compete in a single elimination tournament next March.

The four lowest ranked teams will be selfless and face each other in the semifinals, and the winners of these connections will take on each planted team with a World Cup place on the line.