The 2026 World Cup can have 48 file groups and Japan has change into the primary nation excluding the three hosts to safe a spot. Other groups may comply with the present worldwide window.
The event of subsequent yr within the United States, Mexico and Canada will start on 11 June and the ultimate will happen on July nineteenth.
Forty -three groups will make their factors via the method of qualifying their continent. Two others will guarantee their moorings within the worldwide playoffs with six groups and are scheduled for March 2026.
Host nations
Asia
- Japan (certified on March 20, beating Bahrain 2-0)
What is the breaking of the moorings?
- Asia can have eight direct moorings and one within the worldwide playoff.
- Africa has 9 direct factors extra one for the worldwide playoff.
- North and central America plus the Caribbean get three direct locations and two extra factors within the worldwide playoffs.
- South America has six direct factors and can ship one other staff to the worldwide playoffs.
- For the primary time Oceania can have a 100% assured staff within the World Cup. It may add one other through the worldwide playoffs.
- Europe can have 16 groups that can play protected within the subsequent World Cup.
Who has certified to date?
- The three host nations routinely qualify – and subsequently occupy three of the Concacaf factors.
Reporting by the Associated Press.
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