2022 FIFA World Cup Qualification

The 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification is the qualifying process which will decide 31 of the 32 teams that will participate in the 2022 FIFA World Cup,
joining hosts Qatar, who received an automatic spot.Parallel tournaments are organised by FIFA's six confederations.
The qualification process has suffered numerous postponements due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tournament details

Names Details
Dates 6 June 2019 – 22 September 2022
Teams 206 (from 6 confederations)
Matches played 860
Goals scored 2,415
Attendance 8,816,706
Top scorer(s) Ali Mabkhout (14 goals)

Qualified teams

Status of countries with respect to the 2022 FIFA World Cup:

Team qualified
Team can qualify
Team failed to qualify
Team withdrew or suspended
Not a FIFA member

Teams Flag Method of qualification Date of qualification Total times qualified Last time qualified Previous best performance
Qatar Hosts 2 December 2010 1 - -
Germany UEFA Group J winners 11 October 2021 20 2018 Winners (1954, 1974, 1990, 2014)
Denmark UEFA Group F winners 12 October 2021 6 2018 Quarter-finals (1998)
Brazil CONMEBOL winners 11 November 2021 22 2018 Winners (1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002)
France UEFA Group D winners 13 November 2021 16 2018 Winners (1998, 2018)
Belgium UEFA Group E winners 13 November 2021 14 2018 Third place (2018)
Croatia UEFA Group H winners 14 November 2021 6 2018 Runners-up (2018)
Spain UEFA Group B winners 14 November 2021 16 2018 Winners (2010)
Serbia UEFA Group A winners 14 November 2021 13 2018 Fourth place (1930, 1962)
England UEFA Group I winners 15 November 2021 16 2018 Winners (1966)
Switzerland UEFA Group C winners 15 November 2021 12 2018 Quarter-finals (1934, 1938, 1954)
Netherlands UEFA Group G winners 16 November 2021 11 2014 Runners-up (1974, 1978, 2010)
Argentina CONMEBOL runners-up 16 November 2021 18 2018 Winners (1978, 1986)
IR Iran AFC third round Group A winners 27 January 2022 6 2018 Group stage (1978, 1998, 2006, 2014, 2018)
Korea Republic AFC third round Group A runners-up 1 February 2022 11 2018 Fourth place (2002)
Japan AFC third round Group B runners-up 24 March 2022 7 2018 Round of 16 (2002, 2010, 2018)
Saudi Arabia AFC third round Group B winners 24 March 2022 6 2018 Round of 16 (1994)
Ecuador CONMEBOL fourth place 24 March 2022 4 2014 Round of 16 (2006)
Uruguay CONMEBOL third place 24 March 2022 14 2018 Winners (1930, 1950)
Canada CONCACAF third round winners 27 March 2022 2 1986 Group stage (1986)
Ghana CAF third round winners 29 March 2022 4 2014 Quarter-finals (2010)
Senegal CAF third round winners 29 March 2022 3 2018 Quarter-finals (2002)
Portugal UEFA play-offs Path C winners 29 March 2022 8 2018 Third place (1966)
Poland UEFA play-offs Path B winners 29 March 2022 9 2018 Third place (1974, 1982)
Tunisia CAF third round winners 29 March 2022 6 2018 Group stage (1978, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2018)
Morocco CAF third round winners 29 March 2022 6 2018 Round of 16 (1986)
Cameroon CAF third round winners 29 March 2022 8 2014 Quarter-finals (1990)
United States CONCACAF third round third place 30 March 2022 11 2014 Third place (1930)
Mexico CONCACAF third round runners-up 30 March 2022 17 2018 Quarter-finals (1970, 1986)
WAL/SCO/UKR UEFA play-offs Path A winners 5 June 2022 TDM TDM TDM
UAE/AUS/PER AFC v CONMEBOL play-off winners 13 June 2022 TDM TDM TDM
CRC/NZL CONCACAF v OFC play-off winners 14 June 2022 TDM TDM TDM

Teams that are still qualifying

Teams Flag Total times qualified Last time qualified Previous best performance
United Arab Emirates 1 1990 Group stage (1990)
Australia 5 2018 Round of 16 (2006)
Peru 5 2018 Top 8, 1970 (Quarter-finals) & 1978 (Round 2)
Costa Rica 5 2018 Quarter-finals (2014)
New Zealand 2 2010 Group stage (1982 and 2010)
Wales 1 1958 Quarter-finals, (1958)
Scotland 8 1998 Group Stage
Ukraine 1 2006 Quarter-finals (2006)

Teams that withdrew or suspended

Teams Flag Qualifiers Reason
American Samoa OFC Qualification Withdrawn
Cook Islands OFC Group A COVID-19
Korea DPR AFC Second Round COVID-19 Safety Concerns
Russia UEFA Group H Suspended
Saint Lucia CONCACAF First Round Withdrew
Samoa OFC Qualification Withdrawn
Tonga OFC Qualification Withdrew
Vanuatu OFC Group A COVID-19

Qualification process

All FIFA member associations, of which there are currently 211, were eligible to enter qualification. Qatar, as hosts, qualified automatically for the tournament. However, Qatar was obliged by the AFC to participate in the Asian qualifying stage as the first two rounds also acted as qualification for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup. Qatar won their group so the fifth-best group runners-up advanced to the AFC third round instead. For the first time after the initial two tournaments of 1930 and 1934, the World Cup will be hosted by a country whose national team has never played a finals match before. The reigning World Cup champions France also participated in qualifying as normal.

Seven teams withdrew. Saint Lucia initially entered CONCACAF qualification, but later retreated. North Korea also withdrew from the AFC second qualifying round for safety concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. American Samoa and Samoa likewise retracted their participation ahead of the draw for the OFC qualifiers, while Tonga withdrew after the 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai eruption and tsunami. After COVID-19 outbreaks in their squads during the OFC qualifiers in Doha, Vanuatu and Cook Islands also withdrew.

On 27 February 2022, after the threat of boycotts by the Czech Republic, Poland and Sweden amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, FIFA prohibited the Russia national football team from playing home matches in Russia; the team would have to play matches behind closed doors at neutral sites. In addition, the team would have been prohibited from competing under the name, flag, or national anthem of Russia, and had to compete under the name "Football Union of Russia" (RFU). On 28 February, however, in accordance with a recommendation by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), FIFA suspended the participation of Russia. Poland were subsequently given a walkover for their play-off semi-final match scheduled against Russia. The Russian Football Union announced they would appeal the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Their request for a temporary lift of the ban was rejected on 18 March.

The allocation of slots for each confederation was discussed by the FIFA Executive Committee on 30 May 2015 in Zürich after the FIFA Congress. The committee decided that the same allocation used in 2006, 2010, and 2014 would be kept for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments:

AFC (Asia): 4 or 5
CAF (Africa): 5
CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean): 3 or 4
CONMEBOL (South America): 4 or 5
OFC (Oceania): 0 or 1
UEFA (Europe): 13
Hosts: 1

Summary of qualification

Confederation Flag Available slots Teams started Teams eliminated Teams can still qualify Teams qualified Qualifying start date Qualifying next match date Qualifying end date
AFC 4+1 or 5+1 45+1 39 2 4+1 6 June 2019 7 June 2022 13 June 2022
CAF 5 54 49 0 5 4 September 2019 - 29 March 2022
CONCACAF 3 or 4 34 30 1 3 24 March 2021 14 June 2022 14 June 2022
CONMEBOL 4 or 5 10 5 1 4 8 October 2020 13 June 2022 22 September 2022
OFC 0 or 1 7 6 1 0 17 March 2022 14 June 2022 14 June 2022
UEFA 13 55 40 3 12 24 March 2021 1 June 2022 5 June 2022
Total / 31+1 205+1 169 8 28+1 6 June 2019 1 June 2022 22 September 2022

Confederation qualification

AFC

The opening two rounds of qualifying also served as qualification for the 2023 AFC Asian Cup. Therefore, Qatar, the 2022 FIFA World Cup host, only participated in the first two rounds of qualifying.
The qualification structure is as follows:

First round: 12 teams (ranked 35–46) played home-and-away over two legs. The six winners advanced to the second round.

Second round: 40 teams (ranked 1–34, including Qatar as the host, and the six winners from the first round) were divided into eight groups of five teams to play home-and-away round-robin matches. The eight group winners and the four best group runners-up were set to advance to the third round. As Qatar won their group, the fifth-best runner-up advanced in their stead.

Third round: 12 teams that had advanced from the second round were divided into two groups of 6 teams to play home-and-away round-robin matches. The top two teams of each group qualified for the World Cup, and the two third-placed teams advanced to the fourth round.

Fourth round: Two third-placed teams in each third round group will play against each other in a single match, the winners will advance to the inter-confederation play-offs.

First Round

Team1 Flag1 Agg. Flag2 Team2 1st Leg 2nd Leg
Mongolia (A) 3-2 Brunei Darussalam 2-0 1-2
Macau 1-3 Sri Lanka (A) 1-0 0-3 (awd.)
Laos 0-1 Bangladesh (A) 0-1 0-0
Malaysia (A) 12-2 Timor-Leste 7-1 5-1
Cambodia (A) 4-1 Pakistan 2-0 2-1
Bhutan 1-5 Guam (A) 1-0 0-5

Second Round

Group A

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Syria (A) 8 7 0 1 22 7 +15 21
2 China PR (A) 8 6 1 1 30 3 +27 19
3 Philippines 8 3 2 3 12 11 +1 11
4 Maldives 8 2 1 5 7 20 -13 7
5 Guam 8 0 0 8 2 32 -30 0

Group B

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Australia (A) 8 8 0 0 28 2 +26 24
2 Kuwait 8 4 2 2 19 7 +12 14
3 Jordan 8 4 2 2 13 3 +10 14
4 Nepal 8 2 0 6 4 22 -18 6
5 Chinese Taipei 8 0 0 8 4 34 -30 0

Group C

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 IR Iran (A) 8 6 0 2 34 4 +30 18
2 Iraq (A) 8 5 2 1 14 4 +10 17
3 Bahrain 8 4 3 1 15 4 +11 15
4 Hong Kong 8 1 2 5 4 13 -9 5
5 Cambodia 8 0 1 7 2 44 -42 1

Group D

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Saudi Arabia (A) 8 6 2 0 22 4 +18 20
2 Uzbekistan 8 5 0 3 18 9 +9 15
3 Palestine 8 3 1 4 10 10 0 10
4 Singapore 8 2 1 5 7 22 -15 7
5 Yemen 8 1 2 5 6 18 -12 5

Group E

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Qatar (A) 8 7 1 0 18 1 +17 22
2 Oman (A) 8 6 0 2 16 6 +10 18
3 India 8 1 4 3 6 7 -1 7
4 Afghanistan 8 1 3 4 5 15 -10 6
5 Bangladesh 8 0 2 6 3 19 -16 2

Group F

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Japan (A) 8 8 0 0 46 2 +44 24
2 Tajikistan 8 4 1 3 14 12 +2 13
3 Kyrgyz Republic 8 3 1 4 19 12 +7 10
4 Mongolia 8 2 0 6 3 27 -24 6
5 Myanmar 8 2 0 6 6 35 -29 6

Group G

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 United Arab Emirates (A) 8 6 0 2 23 7 +16 18
2 Vietnam (A) 8 5 2 1 13 5 +8 17
3 Malaysia 8 4 0 4 10 12 -2 12
4 Thailand 8 2 3 3 9 9 0 9
5 Indonesia 8 0 1 7 5 27 -22 1

Group H

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Korea Republic (A) 6 5 1 0 22 1 +21 16
2 Lebanon (A) 6 3 1 2 11 8 +3 10
3 Turkmenistan 6 3 0 3 8 11 -3 9
4 Sri Lanka 6 0 0 6 2 23 -21 0
5 Korea DPR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Ranking of runner-up teams

Pos Flag Teams W D L GD Pts
1 China PR (A) 4 1 1 +13 13
2 Oman (A) 4 0 2 +4 12
3 Iraq (A) 3 2 1 +3 11
4 Vietnam (A) 3 2 1 +2 11
5 Lebanon (A) 3 1 2 +3 10
6 Tajikistan 3 1 2 -1 10
7 Uzbekistan 3 0 3 +3 9
8 Kuwait 2 2 2 +2 8

Third round

Group A

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 IR Iran (Q) 10 8 1 1 15 4 +11 25
2 Korea Republic (Q) 10 7 2 1 13 3 +10 23
3 United Arab Emirates (A) 10 3 3 4 7 7 0 12
5 Iraq 10 1 6 3 6 12 -6 9
6 Syria 10 1 3 6 9 16 -7 6
4 Lebanon 10 1 3 6 5 13 -8 6

Group B

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Saudi Arabia (Q) 10 7 2 1 12 6 +6 23
2 Japan (Q) 10 7 1 2 12 4 +8 22
3 Australia (A) 10 4 3 3 15 9 +6 15
4 Oman 10 4 2 4 11 10 +1 14
5 China PR 10 1 3 6 9 19 -10 6
6 Vietnam 10 1 1 8 8 19 -11 4

Fourth round

Team1 Flag1 Score Flag2 Team2
United Arab Emirates 7 Jun Australia

CAF

First round: 28 teams (ranked 27–54) played home-and-away over two legs. The fourteen winners advanced to the second round.

Second round: 40 teams (teams ranked 1–26 and fourteen first-round winners) were divided into ten groups of four teams to play home-and-away round-robin matches. The ten group winners advanced to the third round.

Third round: Ten teams that had advanced from the second round played home-and-away over two legs. The five winners qualified for the World Cup.

First Round

Team1 Flag1 Agg. Flag2 Team2 1st Leg 2nd Leg
Ethiopia (A) 1-1 (a) Lesotho 0-0 1-1
Somalia 2-3 Zimbabwe (A) 1-0 1-3
Eritrea 1-4 Namibia (A) 1-2 0-2
Burundi 2-2 (0-3 p) Tanzania (A) 1-1 1-1 (a.e.t)
Djibouti (A) 2-1 Eswatini 2-1 0-0
Botswana 0-1 Malawi (A) 0-0 0-1
Gambia 1-3 Angola (A) 0-1 1-2
Liberia (A) 3-2 Sierra Leone 3-1 0-1
Mauritius 0-3 Mozambique (A) 0-1 0-2
São Tomé and Príncipe 1-3 Guinea-Bissau (A) 0-1 1-2
South Sudan 1-2 Equatorial Guinea (A) 1-1 0-1
Comoros 1-3 Togo (A) 1-1 0-2
Chad 1-3 Sudan (A) 1-3 0-0
Seychelles 0-10 Rwanda (A) 0-3 0-7

Second Round

Group A

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Algeria (A) 6 4 2 0 25 4 +21 14
2 Burkina Faso 6 3 3 0 12 4 +8 12
3 Niger 6 2 1 3 13 17 -4 7
4 Djibouti 6 0 0 6 4 29 -25 0

Group B

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Tunisia (A) 6 4 1 1 11 2 +9 13
2 Equatorial Guinea 6 3 2 1 6 5 +1 11
3 Zambia 6 2 1 3 8 9 -1 7
4 Mauritania 6 0 2 4 2 11 -9 2

Group C

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Nigeria (A) 6 4 1 1 9 3 +6 13
2 Cape Verde 6 3 2 1 8 6 +2 11
3 Liberia 6 2 0 4 5 8 -3 6
4 Central African Republic 6 1 1 4 4 9 -5 4

Group D

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Cameroon (A) 6 5 0 1 12 3 +9 15
2 Ivory Coast 6 4 1 1 10 3 +7 13
3 Mozambique 6 1 1 4 2 8 -6 4
4 Malawi 6 1 0 5 2 12 -10 3

Group E

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Mali (A) 6 5 1 0 11 0 +11 16
2 Uganda 6 2 3 1 3 2 +1 9
3 Kenya 6 1 3 2 4 9 -5 6
4 Rwanda 6 0 1 5 2 9 -7 1

Group F

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Egypt (A) 6 4 2 0 10 4 +6 14
2 Gabon 6 2 1 3 7 8 -1 7
3 Libya 6 2 1 3 4 7 -3 7
4 Angola 6 1 2 3 6 8 -2 5

Group G

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Ghana (A) 6 4 1 1 7 3 +4 13
2 South Africa 6 4 1 1 6 2 +4 13
3 Ethiopia 6 1 2 3 4 7 -3 5
4 Zimbabwe 6 0 2 4 2 7 -5 2

Group H

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Senegal (A) 6 5 1 0 15 4 +11 16
2 Togo 6 2 2 2 5 6 -1 8
3 Namibia 6 1 2 3 5 10 -5 5
4 Congo 6 0 3 3 5 10 -5 3

Group I

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Morocco (A) 6 6 0 0 20 1 +19 18
2 Guinea-Bissau 6 1 3 2 5 11 -6 6
3 Guinea 6 0 4 2 5 11 -6 4
4 Sudan 6 0 3 3 5 12 -7 3

Group J

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 DR Congo (A) 6 3 2 1 9 3 +6 11
2 Benin 6 3 1 2 5 4 +1 10
3 Tanzania 6 2 2 2 6 8 -2 8
4 Madagascar 6 1 1 4 4 9 -5 4

Third Round

Team1 Flag1 Agg. Flag2 Team2 1st Leg 2nd Leg
Egypt 1–1 (1–3 p) Senegal (Q) 1-0 0–1 (a.e.t.)
Cameroon (Q) 2–2 (a) Algeria 0-1 2–1 (a.e.t.)
Ghana (Q) 1–1 (a) Nigeria 0-0 1–1
DR Congo 2–5 Morocco (Q) 1-1 1–4
Mali 0–1 Tunisia (Q) 0-1 0-0

CONCACAF

First round: 30 CONCACAF teams, ranked 6 to 35 based on the FIFA rankings of July 2020, were drawn into six groups of five and played single round-robin matches (two home and two away), the six group winners advanced to the second round.

Second round: Six first round group winners played in a two-legged home-and-away series. The three winners advanced to the third round.

Third round: Eight teams, three second-round winners and the top five CONCACAF teams (Mexico, United States, Costa Rica, Jamaica, and Honduras) also based on those FIFA rankings, played home-and-away round-robin matches in one single group. The top three teams qualified for the World Cup and the fourth-placed team advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs.

First Round

Group A

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 El Salvador (A) 4 3 1 0 13 1 +12 10
2 Montserrat 4 2 2 0 9 4 +5 8
3 Antigua and Barbuda 4 2 1 1 6 5 +1 7
4 Grenada 4 1 0 3 2 5 -3 3
5 U.S. Virgin Islands 4 0 0 4 0 15 -15 0

Group B

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Canada (A) 4 4 0 0 27 1 +26 12
2 Suriname 4 3 0 1 15 4 +11 9
3 Bermuda 4 1 1 2 7 12 -5 4
4 Aruba 4 1 0 3 3 19 -16 3
5 Cayman Islands 4 0 1 3 2 18 -16 1

Group C

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Curaçao (A) 4 3 1 0 15 1 +14 10
2 Guatemala 4 3 1 0 14 0 +14 10
3 Cuba 4 2 0 2 7 3 +4 6
4 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 4 1 0 3 3 16 -13 3
5 British Virgin Islands 4 0 0 4 0 19 -19 0

Group D

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Panama (A) 4 4 0 0 19 1 +18 12
2 Dominican Republic 4 2 1 1 8 4 +4 7
3 Barbados 4 1 2 1 3 3 0 5
4 Dominica 4 1 1 2 5 4 +1 4
5 Anguilla 4 0 0 4 0 23 -23 0

Group E

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Haiti (A) 3 3 0 0 13 0 +13 9
2 Nicaragua 3 2 0 1 10 1 +9 6
3 Belize 3 1 0 2 5 5 0 3
4 Turks and Caicos Islands 3 0 0 3 0 22 -22 0
5 Saint Lucia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Group F

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Saint Kitts and Nevis (A) 4 3 0 1 8 2 +6 9
2 Trinidad and Tobago 4 2 2 0 6 1 +5 8
3 Puerto Rico 4 2 1 1 10 2 +8 7
4 Guyana 4 1 0 3 4 8 -4 3
5 Bahamas 4 0 1 3 0 15 -15 1

Second Round

Team1 Flag1 Agg. Flag2 Team2 1st Leg 2nd Leg
Saint Kitts and Nevis 0-6 El Salvador (A) 0-4 0-2
Haiti 0-4 Canada (A) 0-1 0-3
Panama (A) 2-1 Curaçao 2-1 0-0

Third Round

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Canada (Q) 14 8 4 2 23 7 +16 28
2 Mexico (Q) 14 8 4 2 17 8 +9 28
3 United States (Q) 14 7 4 3 21 10 +11 25
4 Costa Rica (A) 14 7 4 3 13 8 +5 25
5 Panama 14 6 3 5 17 19 -2 21
6 Jamaica 14 2 5 7 12 22 -10 11
7 El Salvador 14 2 4 8 8 18 -10 10
8 Honduras 14 0 4 10 7 26 -19 4

CONMEBOL

All ten CONMEBOL teams play in a league of home-and-away round-robin matches. The top four teams qualified for the World Cup and the fifth-placed team advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs.

Standings

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Brazil (Q) 17 14 3 0 40 5 +35 45
2 Argentina (Q) 17 11 6 0 27 8 +19 39
3 Uruguay (Q) 18 8 4 6 22 22 0 28
4 Ecuador (Q) 18 7 5 6 27 19 +8 26
5 Peru (A) 18 7 3 8 19 22 -3 24
6 Colombia 18 5 8 5 20 19 +1 23
7 Chile 18 5 4 9 19 26 -7 19
8 Paraguay 18 3 7 8 12 26 -14 16
9 Bolivia 18 4 3 11 23 42 -19 15
10 Venezuela 18 3 1 14 14 34 -20 10

OFC

The qualifying stage was to be a single match on 13 March 2022 between the two lowest-ranked participating OFC nations in the FIFA World Rankings, with the winner advancing to the group stage. Then eight remaining teams were drawn into two groups of four, playing single leg round-robin. The top two teams from each group advanced to a single leg knockout stage. The final winner advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs.

Qualification match

Team1 Flag1 Score Flag2 Team2
Tonga Canc. Cook Islands (A)

Group stage

Group A

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Solomon Islands (A) 1 1 0 0 3 1 +2 3
2 Tahiti (A) 1 0 0 1 1 3 -2 0
3 Cook Islands 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Vanuatu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Group B

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 New Zealand (A) 3 3 0 0 12 1 +11 9
2 Papua New Guinea (A) 3 2 0 1 3 2 +1 6
3 Fiji 3 1 0 2 3 7 -4 3
4 New Caledonia 3 0 0 3 2 10 -8 0

Final stage

Semi-finals

Team1 Flag1 Agg. Flag2 Team2
Solomon Islands (A) 3-2 Papua New Guinea
New Zealand (A) 1-0 Tahiti

Final

30 March 2022

Team1 Flag1 Agg. Flag2 Team2
Solomon Islands 0-5 New Zealand (A)

UEFA

First round (group stage): Ten groups of either five or six teams with group winners qualifying for the World Cup finals. The four teams in the 2021 UEFA Nations League Finals (France, Belgium, Italy, and Spain) were put into the smaller groups.

Second round (play-off stage): 12 teams (ten group runners-up and the best two Nations League group winners, based on the Nations League overall ranking, that finished outside the top two of their qualifying group) were drawn into three play-off paths, playing two rounds of single-match play-offs (semi-finals with the seeded teams to host, followed by finals, with the home teams to be drawn), with the three path winners qualifying for the World Cup.

First round

Group A

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Serbia (Q) 8 6 2 0 18 9 +9 20
2 Portugal (A) 8 5 2 1 17 6 +11 17
3 Republic of Ireland 8 2 3 3 11 8 +3 9
4 Luxembourg 8 3 0 5 8 18 -10 9
5 Azerbaijan 8 0 1 7 5 18 -13 1

Group B

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Spain (Q) 8 6 1 1 15 5 +10 19
2 Sweden (A) 8 5 0 3 12 6 +6 15
3 Greece 8 2 4 2 8 8 0 10
4 Georgia 8 2 1 5 6 12 -6 7
5 Kosovo 8 1 2 5 5 15 -10 5

Group C

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Switzerland (Q) 8 5 3 0 15 2 +13 18
2 Italy (A) 8 4 4 0 13 2 +11 16
3 Northern Ireland 8 2 3 3 6 7 -1 9
4 Bulgaria 8 2 2 4 6 14 -8 8
5 Lithuania 8 1 0 7 4 19 -15 3

Group D

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 France (Q) 8 5 3 0 18 3 +15 18
2 Ukraine (A) 8 2 6 0 11 8 +3 12
3 Finland 8 3 2 3 10 10 0 11
4 Bosnia and Herzegovina 8 1 4 3 9 12 -3 7
5 Kazakhstan 8 0 3 5 5 20 -15 3

Group E

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Belgium (Q) 8 6 2 0 25 6 +19 20
2 Wales (A) 8 4 3 1 14 9 +5 15
3 Czech Republic (A) 8 4 2 2 14 9 +5 14
4 Estonia 8 1 1 6 9 21 -12 4
5 Belarus 8 1 0 7 7 24 -17 3

Group F

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Denmark (Q) 10 9 0 1 30 3 +27 27
2 Scotland (A) 10 7 2 1 17 7 +10 23
3 Israel 10 5 1 4 23 21 +2 16
4 Austria (A) 10 5 1 4 19 17 +2 16
5 Faroe Islands 10 1 1 8 7 23 -16 4
6 Moldova 10 0 1 9 5 30 -25 1

Group G

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Netherlands (Q) 10 7 2 1 33 8 +25 23
2 Turkey (A) 10 6 3 1 27 16 +11 21
3 Norway 10 5 3 2 15 8 +7 18
4 Montenegro 10 3 3 4 14 15 -1 12
5 Latvia 10 2 3 5 11 14 -3 9
6 Gibraltar 10 0 0 10 4 43 -39 0

Group H

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Croatia (Q) 10 7 2 1 21 4 +17 23
2 Russia 10 7 1 2 19 6 +13 22
3 Slovakia 10 3 5 2 17 10 +7 14
4 Slovenia 10 4 2 4 13 12 +1 14
5 Cyprus 10 1 2 7 4 21 -17 5
6 Malta 10 1 2 7 9 30 -21 5

Group I

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 England (Q) 10 8 2 0 39 3 +36 26
2 Poland (A) 10 6 2 2 30 11 +19 20
3 Albania 10 6 0 4 12 12 0 18
4 Hungary 10 5 2 3 19 13 +6 17
5 Andorra 10 2 0 8 8 24 -16 6
6 San Marino 10 0 0 10 1 46 -45 0

Group J

Pos Flag Teams Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Germany (Q) 10 9 0 1 36 4 +32 27
2 North Macedonia (A) 10 5 3 2 23 11 +12 18
3 Romania 10 5 2 3 13 8 +5 17
4 Armenia 10 3 3 4 9 20 -11 12
5 Iceland 10 2 3 5 12 18 -6 9
6 Liechtenstein 10 0 1 9 2 34 -32 1

Second round

Path A

Semi-finals

Team1 Flag1 Score Flag2 Team2
Scotland 1 Jun Ukraine
Wales (A) 2-1 Austria

Final

Team1 Flag1 Score Flag2 Team2
Wales 5 Jun Winner semi-final 1

Path B

Semi-finals

Team1 Flag1 Score Flag2 Team2
Russia w/o Poland (A)
Sweden (A) 1–0 (a.e.t.) Czech Republic

Final

Team1 Flag1 Score Flag2 Team2
Poland (Q) 2–0 Sweden

Path C

Semi-finals

Team1 Flag1 Score Flag2 Team2
Italy 0–1 North Macedonia (A)
Portugal (A) 3-1 Turkey

Final

Team1 Flag1 Score Flag2 Team2
Portugal (Q) 2-0 North Macedonia

Inter-confederation play-offs

There will be two inter-confederation play-offs to determine the final two qualification spots for the finals

AFC v CONMEBOL

Team1 Flag1 Score Flag2 Team2
AFC Fourth Round winner 13 Jun Peru

CONCACAF v OFC

Team1 Flag1 Score Flag2 Team2
Costa Rica 14 Jun New Zealand
Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification