The three winners from each play-off path will qualify for the FIFA World Cup 2022.
Each play-off path will see the teams play a one-off semi-final and a final.
The 12 teams will then be drawn into three play-off paths consisting of four teams each. These two teams, obviously, cannot be the ones which have qualified directly for the FIFA World Cup 2022 final tournament as European qualifiers group winners or the ones which entered the play-offs as European qualifiers group runners-up. There, they will be joined by the two best group winners of the UEFA Nations League 2020-21 chosen through their overall ranking. The 10 runners-ups, meanwhile, will move onto the second round or play-offs. The eventual 10 group winners will qualify directly for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. In the group stage, each team will play the other teams in a round robin format. Group J: Germany, Romania, Iceland, North Macedonia, Armenia, Liechtenstein Group I: England, Poland, Hungary, Albania, Andorra, San Marino Group H: Croatia, Slovakia, Russia, Slovenia, Cyprus, Malta Group G: Netherlands, Turkey, Norway, Montenegro, Latvia, Gibraltar Group F: Denmark, Austria, Scotland, Israel, Faroe Islands, Moldova Group E: Belgium, Wales, Czech Republic, Belarus, Estonia Group D: France, Ukraine, Finland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kazakhstan Group C: Italy, Switzerland, Northern Ireland, Bulgaria, Lithuania Group B: Spain, Sweden, Greece, Georgia, Kosovo Group A: Portugal, Serbia, Ireland, Luxembourg, Azerbaijan The draws were done in Zurich in December 2020. Belgium, France, Italy, Spain – the four teams who reached the 2021 UEFA Nations League finals – are in the smaller five-team groups The group stage will see the 55 European teams divided in 10 groups of five or six teams each. The FIFA World Cup 2022 European qualifiers will be played in two stages. How do the FIFA World Cup 2022 European qualifiers work? The FIFA World Cup 2022 European qualifying schedule will resume again in September after the regular club season and Euros get over. With the deferred UEFA Euro 2020 tournament starting from June 2021, three matchdays will be held back-to-back over the week starting Wednesday (March 24). The FIFA World Cup 2022 European qualifiers kickstart this week as club football gives way to international fixtures.Īlready delayed due to COVID-19, the qualifying matches will be played from March 2021 to March 2022 to determine the 13 teams from Europe who will travel for the main event in Qatar in May next year.
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