With 12 teams, three groups were structured, the winners of each series will go to the World Cup. Group semi-final games will be played in March.
Italy, European champion, and the Portugal of Cristiano Ronaldo, winner of Euro 2016, were framed in the same play-off group for Qatar 2022, so that one of the two teams will be out of the World Cup, according to the draw held this Friday in Zurich.
These selections they would meet in the end of group C, with the ticket to Qatar only for the winner, as long as they pass the semifinals, against North Macedonia in the case of Italy and Turkey for Portugal.
All the qualifying rounds will be a single match and in the case of playing the final and if the two favorites overcome their confrontations, they will have to meet in the final on the 29th to be played in Portugal.
The group A of the European repechage will have as semifinals Scotland-Ukraine and Wales-Austria, while in the B they will compete Russia-Poland and Sweden-Czech Republic. The matches will be played in March.
The three winning teams in each group will complete the quota of 13 representatives of European football in Qatar-2022, a tournament for which the 10 champions of each qualifying group have already qualified: Spain, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Croatia, France, England, Holland, Switzerland and Serbia.
The host team, along with Brazil and Argentina, by Conmebol, they have also guaranteed their participation at the World Cup, which will be played from November 21 to December 18, 2022. (D)
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