The 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers process is a series of tournaments organised by the six FIFA confederations to decide 31 of the 32 teams that will play in the 2022 FIFA World Cup, with Qatar qualifying automatically as hosts.
World Cup Qualifiers: Europe| Results Today| Matches Today
Europe:
The European Qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup resumed on 1 September with newly-crowned UEFA EURO 2020 champions Italy aiming to keep up their perfect start to their campaign, which began with a triple-header in March.
The ten group winners qualify for the 2022 World Cup which runs from 21 November to 18 December in Qatar.
For the play-offs from 24 to 29 March 2022, the ten group runners-up will be joined by the two best group winners from the 2020/21 UEFA Nations League overall ranking that have neither qualified directly for the final tournament as European Qualifiers group winners, nor entered the play-offs already as European Qualifiers group runners-up. These 12 teams will be drawn into three play-off paths for one-off semi-finals and a final. The three path winners qualify for the World Cup.
Results Today:
| Tournament details | |
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| Dates | 24 March 2021 – 29 March 2022 |
| Teams | 55 (from 1 confederation) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 88 |
| Goals scored | 272 (3.09 per match) |
| Attendance | 58,100 (660 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Aleksandar Mitrović (5 goals) |
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Group A Portugal 2-1 Republic of Ireland Luxembourg 2-1 Azerbaijan
Group D Kazakhstan 2-2 Ukraine France 1-1 Bosnia and Herzegovina
F Denmark 2-0 Scotland Moldova 0-2 Austria Faroe Islands 0-4 Israel
Group G Norway 1-1 Netherlands Turkey 2-2 Montenegro Latvia 3-1 Gibraltar
Group H Malta 3-0 Cyprus Slovenia 1-1 Slovakia Russia 0-0 Croatia
Matches Today:
Thursday 2 September
Group B: Georgia vs Kosovo (18:00), Sweden vs Spain
Group C: Italy vs Bulgaria, Lithuania vs Northern Ireland
E: Czech Republic vs Belarus, Estonia vs Belgium
Group I: Andorra vs San Marino, Hungary vs England, Poland vs Albania
Group J: Iceland vs Romania, Liechtenstein vs Germany, North Macedonia vs Armenia
| Tournament details | |
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| Dates | 6 June 2019 – June 2022 (expected) |
| Teams | 210 (expected) (from 6 confederations) |
