(Portugal vs Italy. (Photo credit: Tatchee Images)
There are 12 teams in the European play-offs for the 2022 Cada World Cup, divided into seeded and unseeded teams, with the six best group stage results of Portugal, Scotland, Italy, Russia
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Sweden and Wales are seeded, while Turkey, Poland, Northern Macedonia and Ukraine, plus Austria and the Czech Republic, who entered the play-offs on the basis of their UEFA results, are unseeded.
The 12 teams in the play-offs will be divided into 3 groups of 4 teams each, each playing a semi-final and the winners playing a final against each other in a single-elimination tournament, with only the country that wins both matches advancing directly to the WC domestic tournament. The seeded teams have the advantage of being able to draw against an unseeded team for the semi-finals, and are guaranteed to play as the home team, while the home field for the final of the play-offs will be determined by the draw.
The six seeded teams will be placed in order in numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, and then the winners of groups 1 and 2 will play each other to decide who will get the World Cup tickets, which means that at least two seeded teams in each group will be placed together. If Portugal and Italy are drawn together, only one country will be able to qualify.
This tournament features a single-elimination tournament and more than one opponent, with the possibility of a strong traditional powerhouse clash if the signings are not good.
(Sweden eliminates Italy. (Photo credit: Dazi Images)
In the past few years and how to choose it, the 2018 World Cup Europe is divided into nine groups, the first group directly promoted, the best eight group second to play the playoffs, playoffs according to the world ranking is divided into seeded and unseeded teams, after the draw two pairs of matches, the home and away each play a game to see the pair of winners and losers, the better results of the promotion of the qualifying rounds of the year, the deepest impression is that the Italy home and away two 0-1 defeat to Sweden was eliminated. The most impressive thing about this year's qualifying round is that Italy was eliminated from the tournament with a 0-1 win over Sweden in both home and away games.
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World Cup runners-up, Croesus also progressed through the play-offs, where they beat Greece 4-1 in both the home and away rounds.
(Portugal eliminates Sweden. (Photo credit: Dazi Images)
The 2014 World Cup European qualifying and play-off system is the same, the same nine group leaders to advance, the best eight group second to play the play-offs, play-offs according to the world ranking into the seeded and unseeded teams, after the draw, two pairs of matches, the home and away each play a game to see the pair of wins and losses, the better results to advance, this year, including Portugal and France were kicked to the play-offs, but they were in the home and away rounds in two rounds respectively knocked out Sweden and Ukraine. However, they eliminated Sweden and Ukraine in the home and away rounds respectively.
It was the same format in 2010, which also saw France and Portugal drop to the play-offs, where they knocked out Ireland and Bosnia 2-1 and 2-0 on aggregate respectively.
(France eliminates Ireland. (Photo credit: Dazi Images)
In 2006, the tournament was divided into 8 groups, with the first and the best two groups advancing directly, while the other groups had to play a playoff, which also determined the seeded and unseeded teams based on the world rankings, and then a two-legged home-and-away double-legged match, with the better team advancing. Spain fell into the playoffs that year, but eliminated Slovakia 6-2 to advance to the tournament. What's interesting is that Serbia has always been a surprise performer in the WC qualification rounds, beating Portugal in the 2022 group stage, France in 2010, and Spain in 2006, making it a group stage powerhouse killer.
(Spain eliminates Slovakia. (Photo credit: Dazi Images)
The 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea, in this tournament, the previous World Cup champion can be directly promoted to the next World Cup, so the 1998 World Cup champion France can be directly promoted, and at that time, there were 13.5 places in the European zone, which is equivalent to plus France has 14.5 places, the qualifying round of the European zone is divided into nine groups, nine groups of the first group to directly promote the rest of the nine groups of the second, eight of them will play a two-team two-round matches, the other one will be randomly selected and AFC countries to play intercontinental playoffs, the other one will be randomly selected to play AFC countries. The other team will be randomly selected to play an intercontinental playoff with an AFC country.
That year Germany knocked out Ukraine 5-2 in the play-offs, and drawn to face the AFC were Ireland, who knocked out Iran 2-1, meaning that for the 2002 World Cup, Europe had 15 countries competing.
(Ireland v Iran. (Photo credit: Dazi Images)
The 1998 World Cup in France, this tournament World Cup expansion to 32 teams, Europe has 14 places, plus the landlord France has 15 places, nine group leaders and the best results of the second group to advance directly, the other eight groups of the second two against two, the better results of the country to advance, this year Italy was squeezed by England to the play-offs, but they knocked out the Russian Federation in two rounds 2-1
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Advancement.
Before 1998, because the number of countries participating in the World Cup is not so much, the competition system is not quite the same, but roughly not out of the first group directly advanced, the second group to play two against the play-off mode, and even had a second group are promoted to the tournament system, in any case is not as complicated as this one, and the past years in fact, there is a traditional powerhouse in each session fell into the play-offs, but basically, in the past system, these But basically, in the past system, these traditional powerhouses could advance smoothly, except for Italy in 2018.
