WORLD CUP DRAW. The first major football event 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.
See you on April 1 at 8 p.m. local time, 6 p.m. in France, for the draw for the next World Cup. France, which is putting its title back into play, will know its opponents during the group stage. If for the moment, 20 countries have 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.
Tuesday, March 29, seven new countries will qualify for the World Cup in Qatar: two in Europe and five in Africa. The play-off finals on the European continent (Portugal – North Macedonia and Poland – Sweden) take place at 8:45 p.m. while the qualifying matches for the 3rd round in Africa begin with two matches at 7 p.m. (Nigeria – Ghana and Senegal – Egypt) and the rest of the matches from 9:30 p.m. (Algeria – Cameroon, Morocco – DR Congo and Tunisia – Mali).
- 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
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 or Denmark (depending on the result of the play-offs)