The group draw for the year-end 2022 Qatar World Football Championship has been completed on April 2, midnight, Taiwan time. There are 32 teams in total, divided into 8 groups from A to H. Let's take a look at what's in store for this year's World Cup.
A total of 32 teams qualified for the tournament, which will be divided into four pots according to FIFA's world rankings, with host nation Qatar listed in Pot 1, and drawn in order.
Pot 1 ranked 51st in Qatar and the rest are ranked 1-8 in order. 6th ranked Italy will be absent from this year's WC after losing to Northern Macedonia in the qualifying rounds. It is also the only country that has won the World Cup but will not be participating in this year's tournament.
Pot 2 is ranked 9-16, with Germany and the Netherlands being the most feared teams in this unseeded group.
And Russia, ranked 36th in the world
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Instead, they were disqualified by FIFA for starting the war against Ukraine.
By the time the draw was held, three teams had yet to play due to the intercontinental play-offs yet to be played, as well as the European Group A play-offs which were postponed due to the Russo-Ukrainian war.
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, they will be put in Pot 4.
One of the rules of the draw was that no more than two teams from the same European region would be placed in the same group, and no countries from other regions than Europe would be placed in the same group.
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The 3-time runners-up Netherlands have been drawn into Group A, where they will play hosts Cada, Ecuador and Senegal. The advantage of being the host country is that it is the first time for Cada to participate in the World Cup, so they will have to play against the hosts.
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I'm afraid it's not that easy.
Group B will see traditional rivals England, the USA, who were absent last year, and Iran, with the remaining team being the winner of Scotland/Ukraine or Wales. Compared to the other competitive groups, Group B is probably the political death knell. The United Kingdom is made up of four regions, England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Due to the early development of soccer in the United Kingdom in the past, each of the four regions has established its own soccer team.
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That's why there will be four teams from one country. And it should be interesting but tense to see how the U.S. and Iran will compete on the soccer field. If Ukraine is able to
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A World Cup intra-conference tournament would be extremely uplifting news for all of us, and any country that suffers from war persecution and still makes an effort to stand up for itself deserves a round of applause.
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In Group C, Argentina will fight against Poland, Saudi Arabia and Mexico, led by Levante. Argentina won the Copa America last year, ending a 28-year drought in the championship.
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Can they lead their team to another World Cup victory? If nothing else, Argentina are favored to finish comfortably in this group.
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, the one seat left for comparison will probably be one of Poland and Mexico.
Group D features France, Denmark, Tunisia, and either Peru or the winner of the UAE/Australia playoff. France, seeking to defend their title, will be the most favored of the group, with only Denmark, who have won nine of their last 10 qualifying matches, threatening their position at the top.
The most notable is definitely in Group E, where the 2010 champions, Spain, will meet the 2014 champions, Germany, in a strong clash. Germany will need to get rid of the bottom of the group stage of the last World Cup 2018, that disastrous shame again. The same surprise last time in
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We'll lose to Russia.
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The other two teams in the group are Asian powerhouse Japan and the winner of the Costa Rica/New Zealand playoff. The other two teams in the same group are Asian powerhouse Japan and the winner of Costa Rica/New Zealand, who are still in the play-offs. Want to see the Japanese warriors
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In the knockout rounds, it will have to pass the two big tests of Spain and Germany.
And European powerhouse Belgium, still seeking its maiden title, will be in Group F with second-time participants Canada, Morocco and Croatsia.
Brazil, which has a record of the most tournaments with 21, is in Group G with Serbia, Switzerland and Cameroon. Brazil won the 2002
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It was also the only non-European team to win the title in the past 20 years.
The final Group H will be made up of the same likely final term
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Portugal, led by Portugal, competed against Ghana, Uruguay and South Korea.
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Qualification. Portugal beat Northern Macedonia in the last minute of the tournament, and if it wasn't for Northern Macedonia's surprise win over Italy, it would have been hard to tell who would have won and who would have lost. The difference in strength between the teams in this group isn't too great, so it's a matter of who will win and who will lose.
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It's all still hard to say.
The Katha World Cup 2022 will kick off on November 21 with a nearly month-long tournament.
