2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying information, format, fixtures and more

With English In November, the League League campaign will end in this process – the next match will see the next match will take the World Cup travel under the leadership of the new cartridge Thomas Tuchel.

Thoughts will appeal to the classifiers for 2026 tournaments to start in March 2025. The next edition of the four-year tournament is less than 18 months, but some confederations are already in the qualification process.

After the draw of the deception, the teams can start a walk to participate in the North American World Cup since 1994.

UEFA World Cup qualifying information

The teams were involved in 12 groups of four or five teams, playing each other at home and away. In March, the groups in one of the four five team teams, 6 groups, which drew 6 of the group, will start campaigns in September. All groups end in November 2025.

British K Group, Thomas Tuchel was taken to Group K with a collision with the British boss against Albania and Latvia.

12 group winners will provide a place in the 2026 World Cup, will provide a place with the remaining four remaining UEFA spots by the winners of the playoffs, which are attended by 12 athletes.

UEFA World Cup Choosing Play-Off

12 Fusions from each of the 12 qualifiers will provide a place in the play-off groups with four highest group winners of the 2024/25 National League in the League of 2024/25 Nations.

These 16 teams will be drawn to four play-off roads with four teams on each route. The semifinals will be over a foot, followed by a legged final in March 2026, after a legged finale, a few months before the start of the World Cup.

UEFA World Cup Qualifying Dates

Group stages of voters will be held between March-November 2025. Play-off installations will take place between 26 and March 31, 2026.

World Cup 2026 format

After the seven consecutive tournaments, which are 32 participants, a total of 48 countries will be resolved since 2026 to take home the World Cup.

This means that each confederation takes more space in the last tournament. UEFA now takes 16 stains, now takes nine spots for the 9th time (above five) and AFC nations get more than 4.5 to eight points.

Elsewhere, there will be six spots in the Concacaf teams, three to host the United States, Canada and Mexico. CONMEBOL now has six stains, (over 4.5), more than 0.5 they have previously offered, it has a very guaranteed point.

There is a little change in format with an extended competition. 48 teams of 48 teams will be divided into four teams.

The first two in each group will create the nocaut stages, as well as the eight-third-party team, thus 32.

Since then, there will be a flat knit tournament to see who will win the metlife stadium in western New York.

This Full list of venues and their strength For the first time since 1994, the tournament returned to North America can be found in the following table.

The 1994 World Cup in the United States was the Final World Cup, which demonstrates 24 teams, which will be the debut of 48 team competitions in the United States.

Before all this, UEFA selections will see who will be in the pool of Europe for 18 months.