Saturday 25 July 2015

FIFA World Cup 2018 qualifying draws Battle of Britain


EUROPE (UEFA)
Hosts Russia + 13 other qualifiers from nine groups - seven groups of six teams and two groups of five. Nine group winners qualify and eight runner-up enter playoffs for the remaining four places. Worst runner-up does not advance from the group stage.
Group A Netherlands - France - Sweden - Bulgaria - Belarus - Luxembourg
Group B Portugal - Switzerland - Hungary - Faroe Islands - Latvia - Andorra
Group C Germany - Czech Republic - Northern Ireland - Norway - Azerbaijan - San Marino
Group D Wales - Austria - Serbia - Ireland - Moldova - Georgia
Group E Romania - Denmark - Poland - Montenegro - Armenia - Kazakhstan
Group F England - Slovakia - Scotland - Slovenia - Lithuania - Malta
Group G Spain - Italy - Albania - Israel - FYR Macedonia - Liechtenstein
Group H Belgium - Bosnia-Herzegovina - Greece - Estonia - Cyprus
Group I Croatia - Iceland - Ukraine - Turkey - Finland

 
SOUTH AMERICA (CONMEBOL)
4.5 qualifiers. Top four qualify from an all-in-one group of 10 teams. Fifth-placed team enters inter-continental playoff against a team from Oceania.
Round-robin Argentina - Bolivia - Brazil - Chile - Colombia - Ecuador - Paraguay - Peru - Uruguay - Venezuela


NORTH & CENTRAL AMERICA, AND CARIBBEAN (CONCACAF)
3.5 qualifiers. Six playoff winners join six teams with byes, and are drawn into three groups of four. 
Group A Mexico - Honduras - Canada or Belize - Curacao or El Salvador
Group B Costa Rica - Panama - Jamaica or Nicaragua - Grenada or Haiti
Group C United States - Trinidad & Tobago - Antigua and Barbuda or Guatemala - St Vincent and Grenadines or Aruba
The three group winners and runners-up in the above groups advance to the final round, an all-in-one group of six known as the Hex. The top three teams qualify while the fourth-placed team advances to an inter-continental playoff against a team from Asia.


AFRICA (CAF)
5 qualifiers. The 26 lowest-ranked teams will play two-legged playoffs with the 13 winners advancing to join 27 teams with byes. These 40 teams will then play two-legged playoffs to reduce the total number of teams to 20. 
01 Somalia or Niger v Cameroon
02 South Sudan or Mauritania v Tunisia
03 Gambia or Namibia v Guinea
04 Sao Tome e Principe or Ethiopia v Congo 
05 Chad or Sierra Leone v Egypt
06 Comoros or Lesotho v Ghana
07 Djibouti or Swaziland v Nigeria
08 Eritrea or Botswana v Mali
09 Seychelles or Burundi v Congo DR
10 Liberia or Guinea-Bissau v Ivory Coast
11 Central African Republic or Madagascar v Senegal
12 Mauritius or Kenya v Cape Verde Islands
13 Tanzania or Malawi v Algeria 
14 Sudan v Zambia
15 Libya v Rwanda
16 Morocco v Equatorial Guinea
17 Mozambique v Gabon
18 Benin v Burkina Faso
19 Togo v Uganda
20 Angola v South Africa
The 20 winners are divided into five groups of four teams with each group winner qualifying.


ASIA (AFC) 
4.5 qualifiers. A total of 40 teams have been divided into eight groups of five. The eight group winners and the four best group runners-up will advance to the final group stage.
Group A United Arab Emirates - Saudi Arabia - Palestine - Malaysia - Timor-Leste
Group B Australia - Jordan - Kyrgyzstan - Bangladesh - Tajikistan
Group C China - Qatar - Hong Kong - Maldives - Bhutan
Group D Iran - Oman - Turkmenistan - India - Guam
Group E Japan - Singapore - Syria - Afghanistan - Cambodia
Group F Iraq - Thailand - Indonesia - Vietnam - Chinese Taipei
Group G South Korea - Kuwait - Lebanon - Laos - Myanmar
Group H Uzbekistan - North Korea - Bahrain - Philippines - Yemen 
The 12 teams advancing will be divided into two groups of six. The group winners and runners-up will qualify while the two third-placed teams enter a two-legged playoff for the right to play an inter-continental playoff against a team from CONCACAF.


OCEANIA (OFC)
0.5 qualifiers. Four teams - American Samoa, Cook Islands, Samoa, and Tonga - compete in pre-qualifying for one place in the OFC Nations Cup alongside seven teams with byes. These eight teams are divided into two groups of four, with the top three teams in each group advancing.
Group A Tahiti - New Caledonia - pre-qualifying winner - Papua New Guinea
Group B New Zealand - Soloman Islands - Fiji - Vanuatu
The six teams which advance from the above groups are then divided into two groups of three teams, with the winner of both groups taking part in a two-legged playoff. The winner of the playoff will advance to an inter-continental playoff against a team from South America.

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