WORLD CUP 2022. New tickets for the World Cup have been distributed with the qualification of Mexico and the United States.
[Mis à jour le 31 mars 2022 à 09h14] They had celebrated the qualification a little early, but the United States are well qualified for the World Cup in Qatar. Despite the 2-0 loss on the last day of the South American zone qualifiers against Costa Rica, the United States will do well in Qatar. Another qualified country, Mexico, won 2-0 against El Salvador. Everything is still possible for Costa Rica (4th) since they still have a chance to participate in the World Cup in Qatar by playing an affordable intercontinental play-off against New Zealand on June 13 or 14. Indeed, in the final of the qualifiers for the Oceania zone against the Solomon Islands, New Zealand easily won 5-0 with a brace from former OM player Bill Tuiloma.
A total of 32 teams, including 13 European, will participate in the 2022 World Cup. With Qatar already assured of its participation as the host country, 31 other countries must therefore obtain their qualification in the coming weeks, through the qualifiers organized on each continent. Here are the countries guaranteed to participate in the competition:
- Qatar (host country)
- Germany
- Denmark
- Brazil
- France
- Belgium
- Serbia
- Spain
- Croatia
- Suisse
- England
- Netherlands
- Argentine
- Iran
- South Korea
- Japan
- Saudi Arabia
- Ecuador
- Uruguay
- Canada
- Morocco
- Tunisia
- Ghana
- Senegal
- Portugal
- Cameroon
- United States
- Mexico
- Costa Rica or New Zealand
• Europe :
Europe offers 13 qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup. Prior to the play-offs, qualifying was organized by UEFA in a single round, with a series of home and away matches in ten groups. Here is the final ranking of these qualifiers.
• Africa:
Africa will have 5 qualifiers at the end of qualifying. The playoffs were held in three rounds. The second is over (see ranking below) and the first of each group are qualified for the third round of final play-offs. A final round with round-trip elimination encounters.
• Asia:
Asia will have 5 or 6 qualifiers. Qatar, the host country, is already qualified but participates in the meetings which also count as a qualifying round for the Asian Cup 2023 in China. The playoffs are organized in 4 rounds. For the current third round, the first two of each group will be directly qualified for the World Cup. The two third-place finishers face each other in the fourth round for a place in the inter-confederation play-offs.
Australia is competing in the World Cup qualifiers in Asia. Oceania for its part will have 1 or 0 qualified. Qualifications are underway to secure a place for the inter-confederation play-offs.
North America, Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF) will have 3 or 4 qualifiers. After several phases, a final round is underway in a single group. The first three will qualify for the World Cup and the fourth will be able to participate in the inter-confederation play-offs.
South America (CONMEBOL) will have 4 or 5 qualifiers. The qualifications are organized in a single qualifying group with home and away matches. The first four are directly qualified for the World Cup, the fifth for the inter-confederation play-offs.
It was in December 2010 that Qatar was named host country of this World Cup, being preferred to the four other candidates: Australia, Japan, South Korea and the United States. A controversial choice which has continued, over the years, to give rise to controversy against a backdrop of accusations of corruption at the time of appointment, of slavery on the construction sites of the stadiums, and on the climate of the country. Given the high heat recorded in summer (the period when the competition is usually played), sometimes with peaks of 50°C, this 2022 World Cup has also had to be postponed to new dates.
To cope with these climatic constraints, FIFA has indeed decided to organize this World Cup in winter, for the first time in its history. The date of the opening match has thus been set for November 21, 2022, while the grand final will take place on December 18, 2022, Qatar’s national day.
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The group stage of the 2022 World Cup will take place from November 21 to December 2. The first two of each group will qualify for the round of 16, scheduled for December 3, 4, 5 and 6. It will then be time for the quarter-finals, scheduled for December 9 and 10, then the semi-finals, on December 13 and 14. The match for third place will take place on December 17 and the final on Sunday December 18, one week before Christmas.
On its website, Fifa explains that “payments for tickets allocated during the first sales period with random selection procedure (draw), which ended on February 8, 2022, are no longer accepted. Fans can re-apply for FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ tickets during the “first-come, first-served” sales phase of the sales phase (1) which begins on 23 March 2022 at 11:00 a.m. CET / 1:00 p.m. Doha time and ends on March 29, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. CET / 12:00 p.m. (noon) Doha time. During this sales period, tickets will be allocated on a “first come, first served” basis and ticket purchases are treated as a real-time transaction (subject to availability). Ticket applicants will immediately receive confirmation that their order has been fulfilled.”