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The last FIFA ‘ranking’, in which the selection of ‘quinas’ occupies the fifth place, allows to avoid in the European classification the best positioned, all in pot 1, but Switzerland, Poland and Austria, in pot 2, they can reach Portugal.
In the draw, in Zurich, Switzerland, without representatives of the federations due to the covid-19 pandemic, the 55 teams will be divided into six pots, and will be drawn into five groups with six teams each, and another five with five teams .
The winner of each of the 10 groups will qualify directly for the final, while the runners-up will play the qualifying play-offs, which will be joined by two winners from the Nations League groups that cannot qualify. directly to the 2022 World Cup or to the play-offs.
Of these 12 teams present in the play-offs, which will be played in March 2022, the last three European representatives will start at the 2022 World Cup. The classification will take place between March and November 2021, and the ‘play-offs’ already in March 2022.
The Qatar World Cup will take place outside the usual period between June and July, due to the strong heat in that country, the 2022 competition being scheduled for the dates between November 21 and December 18.
Portugal was in seven World Championships, a competition in which it has been present consecutively since 2002, in South Korea and Japan, and later in Germany (2006), South Africa (2010), Brazil (2014) and Russia (2018) . .
Before that, the ‘Quinas team’ debuted at the 1966 World Cup in England, where it achieved its best classification, finishing third, and was present again in 1986, in Mexico.
Today’s draw starts at 6:00 p.m. local time (5:00 p.m. in Lisbon).
– Configuration of the pots in the draw for the European qualification phase for the 2022 World Cup:
Partner 1: Belgium, France, England, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Croatia, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.
Partner 2: Switzerland, Wales, Poland, Sweden, Austria, Ukraine, Serbia, Turkey, Slovakia and Romania.
Partner 3: Russia, Hungary, Republic of Ireland, Czech Republic, Norway, Northern Ireland, Iceland, Scotland, Greece and Finland.
Partner 4: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, Israel, Belarus, Georgia and Luxembourg.
Friend 5: Armenia, Cyprus, Faroe Islands, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Kosovo, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia and Andorra.
Partner 6: Malta, Moldova, Liechtenstein, Gibraltar and San Marino.
