2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, coordination, installations and more

with England Completing the last campaigns of the Nations League in November – The promotion of the league A is due to this process – their next match will be seen on the World Cup trip under the supervision of a new president Thomas Tuchil.

Ideas will now turn into the qualifiers for the 2026 championship, which is scheduled to start in March 2025. It has now passed less than 18 months before the next version of the Quartet, however some Confederation has already been done in the middle of the rehabilitation process.

After withdrawing the qualified stage in December, the teams can begin to move in the way of attending the World Cup for North America since 1994.

UEFA World Cup withdrawals

The teams were attracted to 12 groups of four or five teams, playing each other at home and away. The teams that are drawn in one of the four four groups will start qualifying in March, while the teams drawn in one of the six -year -old groups will start their campaigns in September. All groups are concluded in November 2025.

England was attracted to the group K, with the first tasks of Thomas Tuchille, where England coach was home to Albania and Latvia.

Group winners will secure 12 places in the 2026 World Cup, with the remaining four UEFA sites demanded by the winners of the matches of 12 from second place.

UEFA World Cup qualifiers

Second place from each group of 12 qualified groups will secure places in the matching matches, along with the winners of four winners in the Group of Nations 2024/25, which did not end either in the first or second place in their qualified group.

These 16 to four separate tracks will be attracted, with four teams in each path. The semi -finals will be played on one leg, followed by one leg final during the same international window in March 2026, just months before the start of the World Cup.

The dates of the main player qualified for the UEFA World Cup

The group stages of the qualifiers will continue between March and November 2025. The qualifications will be held between 26 and 31 March 2026. As for the same tournament, it will start on June 11, with the final on July 19, 2026.

World Cup Coordination 2026

After seven consecutive championships with 32 participants, from 2026 onwards, there will be a total of 48 countries fighting to take the World Cup.

This means that every federation gets more places in the final championship. UEFA now gets 16 sites, CAF is now getting nine sites (up from five), and the AFC countries got eight sites instead of 4.5 that I had previously enjoyed.

Elsewhere, the Concacaf teams will get six sites, with three to the hosts of the United States of America, Canada and Mexico. There is now six sites in Conmebol, (altitude of 4.5), while the Offline now has a guaranteed spot, instead of 0.5 previously presented.

With extensive competition comes a slight change in coordination. 48 teams will be divided into 12 groups of four teams.

The best two in each group will qualify for the stages of the knockout, in addition to the best eight teams from the third place, thus creating a 32 round.

Since then, there will be a knockout championship straight to find out who will crown the winner at the Metlife Stadium, which is located west of New York City.

the A full list of places and their ability It can be found in the schedule below, as the championship returns to North America for the first time since 1994.

The 1994 World Cup in the United States was the final World Cup, which included 24 teams, while the period in the United States will be for the first time in the 48 teams competition.

Before all this, you will see the qualifications of the European Football Association who will make it from Europe via the blessing in 18 months.