Draw on December 7: Switzerland threatens to fall from Pot 1 in World Cup qualification – sport

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Draw on December 7: Switzerland threatens to fall from well 1 in World Cup qualifying – Sport – SRF

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The Swiss team falls among the top ten Europeans in the FIFA rankings. This could have consequences for the draw to qualify for the 2022 World Cup.

The Swiss team has lost one place in the FIFA rankings following the results of the October international matches with two defeats against Croatia and Spain and a draw against Germany and now stands at 16th place. Switzerland was overtaken by Denmark, who advanced three positions.

No longer in pot 1

This means that Switzerland is only number 11 in Europe in the FIFA rankings and according to the current status, it would not enter the pot 1. For the draw for the 2022 final in Qatar, the top 10 teams are established by Europe. as head of group.

Draw on December 7

On December 7, the groups for the World Cup qualification will be drawn in a virtual ceremony. The 55 teams in Europe are divided into 5 groups of six and five groups of five.

The 10 group winners qualify directly for the World Cup final. The 10 runners-up compete with the 2 best group winners of the Nations League, who did not reach the 1st or 2nd place in the World Cup standings, playoffs for the last 3 places in Europe in the 32nd World Cup.
Qualification for the World Cup will be played in Europe between March and November 2021.

The current FIFA ranking

  1. Belgium 1765 points
  2. France 1752 points
  3. Brazil 1725 points
  4. England 1669 points
  5. Portugal 1661 points
  6. Spain 1639 points
  7. Uruguay 1637 points
  8. Argentina 1636 points
  9. Croatia 1634 points
  10. Colombia 1631 points
  11. Mexico 1625 points
  12. Italy 1612 points
  13. Denmark 1610 points
  14. Germany 1607 points
  15. Holland 1596 points
  16. Switzerland 1589 points

All activities of the U-15 to U-20 national teams canceled

The current situation regarding the coronavirus has an impact on the future program of the Swiss men’s and women’s junior national teams at the U-15 to U-20 levels in 2020. The two directions of the U national teams decided on Wednesday, all planned Cancel activities of the U teams for the rest of the year. To this end, the national associations received a notification from UEFA on Tuesday that the qualifying rounds (scheduled for November 2020) and the final round of the Men’s European Under-19 Championship (scheduled for March 2021 in Northern Ireland) they had finally been canceled.

SRF Zwei, sportlive, October 13, 2020, 8:10 pm;

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