WORLD CUP DRAW. This is THE expected football meeting of the year. The draw for the 2022 World Cup will take place on Friday, April 1. Here is all the info you need to know.
Seven new nations obtained their ticket for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar on Tuesday March 29. Pending the postponement of the match between Ukraine and Scotland, Portugal and Poland won their qualification after their respective victories against North Macedonia (2-0) and Sweden (2-0) in the “final” dams in the Europe zone. If Cristiano Ronaldo and Robert Lewandowski will go to Qatar, this will not be the case for Zlatan Ibrahimovic, eliminated.
Algeria will not play the 2022 World Cup! Against the Cameroonians on Tuesday March 29, the Fennecs bowed after the suspense in overtime (2-1) after a goal from Karl Toko-Ekambi. Among the other qualifying matches for the 3rd round on the African continent, Morocco easily won at home (4-1), sealing their qualification for the next World Cup. In the remake of the final of the last Africa Cup of Nations, Senegal clinched their ticket to Qatar after a tense penalty shootout. After the draw (1-1) in Nigeria, Ghana qualified for the next World Cup like Tunisia, after the goalless draw on Tuesday March 29 at home against Mali.
Next expected meeting of the 2022 World Cup, the draw for the group stage. See you on April 1 at 8 p.m. local time, 6 p.m. in France. France puts its title in play will know its opponents during the group stage. If for the moment, 27 countries are qualified for the next World Cup, some big nations of European football have been placed in hat 2: this is the case of Germany, the Netherlands or even the finalists of the last edition. , Croatia.
- The Organizing Committee for FIFA Competitions has approved the principles of the draw and the composition of hats
- The edition of the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking published on March 31 will serve as a reference
According to the statement from the Fifa“the 28 teams already qualified will be distributed according to sporting criteria in hats numbered from 1 to 4 on the basis of the edition of the FIFA Coca-Cola World Ranking which will be published on March 31, 2022, at the end of the international window of March As hosts, Qatar will be seeded (Position A1) in Pot 1. The next eight teams in seeding order (Teams 8-15) will be seeded in Pot 2 and teams 16 to 23 will join pot 3. Finally, pot 4 will include teams 24 to 28 as well as the two teams “to be determined” corresponding to the winners of the intercontinental play-offs and the team “to be determined” corresponding to the winner of the last UEFA play-off.”
The first turning point in a sporting competition, the draw is always eagerly awaited. That of the group stages of the 2022 World Cup will take place on Friday April 1 in Doha, Qatar. The time of the ceremony was communicated on Tuesday March 22 by Fifa, it will take place from 6 p.m. in France.
The 2022 World Cup draw will be streamed from Qatar on TMC from 6 p.m. Friday April 1.
All the teams qualified for the 2022 World Cup are not yet known. But if there are still 15 places to be allocated to go to Qatar, already 17 nations participating in the next World Cup are known:
- Qatar (host country)
- France
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Argentina
- England
- Spain
- Denmark
- Netherlands
- Germany
- Swiss
- Croatia
- Iran
- Serbia
- South Korea
- Japan
- Saudi Arabia
- Ecuador
- Uruguay
- Canada
- Senegal
- Morocco
- Cameroon
- Ghana
- Tunisia
- Poland
- Portugal
For the draw, the 32 qualified countries will be divided into four hats, according to the FIFA ranking. Host country of the World Cup, Qatar is also in the first hat. Hat 1 will be drawn first, followed by the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. Once a ball is drawn into a hat, another ball will be drawn to determine the group of each selection (from A to H). Note that nations from the same confederation cannot be placed in the same group, with the exception of UEFA, which has 13 representatives. Five of the eight pools will feature two European nations.
Hat #1:
- Qatar
- Belgium
- Brazil
- France
- Argentina
- England
- Spain
- Portugal
Hat no. 2:
- Denmark
- Netherlands
- Germany
- Mexico (in case of direct qualification)
- United States (if directly qualified)
- Swiss
- Croatia
- Uruguay
Hat #3:
- Senegal
- Iran
- Japan
- Morocco
- Serbia
- Poland
- South Korea
- Canada or Tunisia
Hat #4:
- Saudi Arabia
- Ecuador
- Ghana
- Cameroon
- Canada or Tunisia
- Winner of the CONMEBOL play-off
- CONCACAF play-off winner
- Winner of the European play-off
If the draw for the 2022 World Cup is not until April 1, Les Bleus by Didier Deschamps, who appear in hat 1, already know the selections they will not face in the group stages at the Qatari World Cup. . Among them, Qatar which is the organizing country, Argentina and Brazil, but also other European nations such as Belgium, England or Spain. Regarding the other hats, it will depend on the results of the play-offs in the African and European zones in particular, but also on the FIFA ranking.
Reigning world champions, the France team will be seeded in the 2022 World Cup draw thanks to their position in the Fifa rankings. 8 nations will feature in Hat 1, these are the predicted ones:
- France
- Qatar (host country)
- England
- Spain
- Belgium
- Argentina
- Brazil
- Portugal