The UEFA sector will send thirteen teams to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Ten will undergo the short tune, as pinnacle of their respective groups in the qualifying spherical, and 3 greater will qualify via a play-off. This is how it will paintings.
The teams from Europe to qualify immediately are Denmark, Belgium, France, Croatia, Germany, Serbia, Spain, England, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
The ten 2nd-positioned teams will play each other within the World Cup play-offs, from which the closing 3 qualifiers will emerge. But to finish and spherical off the number of groups to an finest parent, UEFA will encompass two Nations League organization winners who've now not qualified for the World Cup or the play-offs thru the regular route.
Portugal, Sweden, Scotland, Scotland, Russia and North Macedonia will contest it as institution runners-up, even as Austria, fourth in Group F, will achieve this as champions of Nations League Group B1.
The Alpine side had France, Spain, Italy, Belgium and Wales in advance of them, but all of them are either already certified for the World Cup or have a danger to qualify. Wales are assured of a play-off region, either as runners-up of their institution or through the Nations League.
Hungary, Slovenia, Montenegro, Albania, Armenia, Gibraltar and the Faroe Islands, the alternative winners in their agencies in this match, are out.
Once the 12 groups which have certified for the play-offs are recognised, the draw for the play-offs might be made. Six semi-finals and three unmarried-leg finals can be performed on 24th-25th March and 28th-29th March respectively.
The draw will take place on Friday 26th November in Zurich.
The 12 groups which have certified for the play-offs are: Portugal, Sweden, Italy, Ukraine, Wales, Scotland, Turkey, Russia, Poland, North Macedonia, Austria and Czech Republic (the latter through the Nations League).
