The Argentine national team The defense of the World Cup won in Qatar 2022 will begin next September, as announced by the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol). The first rival of the team led by Lionel Scaloni will be Ecuador, while on the second day of the road to the 2026 World Cup, to be held in the United States, Canada and Mexico, it will be against Bolivia.
South America will have six representatives in the 2026 World Cup within the cast of 46 qualifiers.
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The qualifiers “will take place from September 2023 to September 2025,” Conmebol reported.
“The format that will be used for the next South American qualifiers will be the same used in the last editions,” added the statement from the region’s soccer governing body. In addition, it also agreed to keep the same calendar used in the last South American competition (heading for Qatar), which was defined by draw.
In this way, the ten teams that make up Conmebol will play an all-against-all tournament, with two rounds of matches, for a total of nine home games and the same number as visitors.
The first day, on a date to be defined, will be played by Argentina-Ecuador, Uruguay-Chile; Colombia venezuela; Brazil-Bolivia and Paraguay-Peru. On the second day they will face Peru-Brazil; Venezuela-Paraguay; Bolivia-Argentina; Chile-Colombia and Ecuador-Uruguay.