The UEFA will be celebrated on Friday, December 13 at Zürich (Switzerland) their qualifying round draw for world cup 2026, that they will organize together Canada, Mexico and the United States, the first has 48 teams, 16 of them European.
The qualification stage at Europe It will start in March 2025 and end in March 2026 and here 12 teams will qualify directly and 4 through the qualifying round, as confirmed by UEFA this Wednesday.
For this stage, European teams will be drawn to form 12 groups of 4 and five teams, which will play round-trip matches. Groups of 5 will start play in March next year, groups of 4 in September and all will finish in November.
The 12 group winners will qualify directly and the 12 runners-up will compete in a “play-off” with the 4 best classified in the group. League of Nations 2024/25 who did not finish first or second in the group.
These 16 teams will participate in a draw to form four qualifying rounds with 4 teams each, which will be resolved in the semi-final and final matches in the international window of March 2026, between the 26 and the 31st of that month.
He The 2026 World Cup will be held from June 11 to July 19 in 16 venues. 11 are in the United States -Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Seattle-, 3 in Mexico -Guadaljara, Mexico City and Monterrey- and 2 in Canada – Toronto and Vancouver-. The final will be held in New York.
Source: La Verdad
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