World Cup draw

The teams in Group G at the 2022 FIFA World Cup will be determined by a draw taking place on April 1 in Doha, Qatar. The tournament will be hosted by Qatar ...

The Wales/Scotland/Ukraine placeholder will be treated like any other European participant as far as geographic restrictions (maximum two European nations per group). Each pot is emptied before moving on to the next one. The draw will start with Pot 1 and end with Pot 4. The four teams selected into the group will play a round-robin format with each nation facing the other three. Host nation Qatar is pre-selected from Pot 1 to play in Group A as per World Cup tradition. If there's a geographic clash, the team drawn is simply moved to the next group in sequence.

The 32 nations who will be competing in this year's World Cup in Qatar will learn their group matchups on Friday. Here's how you can follow the draw.

Costa Rica will take on New Zealand in one intercontiental playoff, and Peru will face the winner of the United Arab Emirates versus Australia in the other. Those matches will take place in June. The other three groups each get one European team. That means they'll be part of Pot 2 as the eight groups for the tournament — held Nov. 21 to Dec. 18 in Qatar — are drawn from four pots based on their current rankings. In each of the four pots (of eight teams each), one team will be drawn and placed into groups A through H. Europe has 13 teams in the tournament and five of the eight groups will each get two teams from the continent.

With a maximum of 18 Manchester City players set to represent their respective nations at the FIFA World Cup this winter, here are all the details for the ...

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Final qualifiers are still wrapping up, leaving a few spots left in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, but that's not stopping the ball rolling on the tournament.

Brazil would go on to win the World Cup. The term originated during the 1970 World Cup in Mexico as a way to refer to the horrific Group C, which saw Brazil, England, Romania and Czechoslovakia put together. * Italy failed to qualify for the second straight World Cup. It’s an extremely unusual World Cup that won’t kick off until November 21 due to concerns about heat in the Persian Gulf, which routinely tops 100 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer and would be hazardous for players. Friday marks the announcement of the draw for group stages, with 32 teams, including host nation Qatar, all finding out their fates. Teams were arranged into four pots, and then selected by random draw.

Belgium will head to Qatar in 2022 desperate to add some long-anticipated silverware on the international stage. The Red Devils have enjoyed a golden ...

The Red Devils also have an array of emerging young stars who could go on to be valuable players in the long term. Belgium will be among the top seeds in Pot 1 for Friday's draw. Mexico, USA, and Switzerland could also be potential opponents as second seeds.

The group draw will take place at 11 a.m. Central from Doha, Qatar. It will be televised on FOX Sports 1. What is the World Cup 2022 format?

Part of that has to do with the changes in the way the group draw is done. Drawing into Qatar's group is going to be the goal for the teams in Pots 2-4. The 2022 World Cup in Qatar begins Nov. 21, with group play continuing through Dec. 2. For example, the CONCACAF-Oceania winner will not be placed in a group with the USMNT, Mexico or Canada. The top two teams in each group move onto the Round of 16 and the single-elimination knockout rounds. The 32 teams will be drawn into eight groups for November's tournament.

As best as FIFA does to keep teams separated in pots for competitive balance, there are still some mouthwatering matchups that could be produced by the 2022 ...

With Germany in Pot 2, there is a good chance that they will be facing a high-profile nation in the group stages. Japan are in Pot 3, but are unlikely to be pushovers. There are also potentially some highly-ranked teams that will come through the June playoffs (Ex. No. 18 Wales) which for purposes of the April 1 draw will be among the lowest-ranked teams in Pot 4. That will impact the schedule of group matches. This is done to try to achieve competitive balance across the groups with each group comprised of one team from each of the pots below. The 32 participants, including three yet unclaimed berths, were broken up into pots based on each team's relative strength per the FIFA World Rankings published on March 31.

DOHA, Qatar — Coaches and soccer officials are gathering in Qatar for Friday's draw for the Middle East's first World Cup. There will be 37 nations involved ...

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Check out all the fixtures and venues for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, including the knockout bracket.

53 - Winners of Group E vs. 51 - Winners of Group B vs. 62 - Winners of 59 vs. 59 - Winners of 51 vs. Group A: A4 vs. Group A: A4 vs. Group A: Qatar vs. Group E: E1 vs. Group D: D1 vs. Group C: C1 vs. Group A: Qatar vs. The 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four nations.

With qualifiers mostly out of the way, the 2022 FIFA World Cup stage is ready to be set. The draw gets underway on Friday, April 1 in Doha, Qatar as each ...

The United States is ranked 15th in the world and so they are in Pot 2.re in pot 2. Qatar is automatically placed in Pot 1 as the host, and then the top seven ranked teams in the world join them. With qualifiers mostly out of the way, the 2022 FIFA World Cup stage is ready to be set.

The United States became the final team in the March international window, alongside CONCACAF rivals Mexico, to qualify directly for the 2022 World Cup.

USA (15) England (5) Germany (12) France (3) Cameroon (37) Mexico (9)

The field for this year's World Cup in Qatar is (nearly) complete. Today, the teams who have qualified will learn their opponents.

“Madam President, you visit our country and made no request for a meeting,” he said. “I urge everybody — we have always been open for dialogue,” he added. Her words drew an immediate and sharp rebuke from FIFA’s Qatari hosts, but also some other soccer federations. No room for leaders that cannot host the women’s game. “Human rights, equality, democracy, the core interests of football, were not in the starting XI until many years later,” Klaveness said. FIFA, all of us, must now take all necessary measures to really implement change.

Follow the draw for the 2022 FIFA World Cup finals live with ESPN, as the 32 teams find out their group stage opponents.

11.00 ET / 15.00 GMT: Welcome to the 2022 World Cup finals draw.... 11.18 ET / 15.18 GMT: We will know the group stage fixtures and dates for all 32 teams as soon as the draw is made. However, we will have to wait to discover the venues and kickoff times. 11.36 ET / 15.36 GMT: After over 11 years since they won the bid to host the World Cup, Friday is a landmark day for Qatar's biggest event yet. 12.32 ET / 16.32 GMT: France coach Didier Deschamps is bringing out the World Cup trophy onto the stage. Japan and Costa Rica or New Zealand complete the group and will have their work cut out to make the knockout rounds. 13.20 ET / 17.20 GMT: Phew! That went at breakneck speed once the draw actually began. Suarez was sent off, Ghana missed the penalty and Uruguay went on to win on a shootout. "For most of the first seeds they would be pleased with the group they get. Well, in the 2010 World Cup, it was Ghana who thought they had scored with the last kick to go through to the semifinals. Asked about potential round-of-16 opponents, Southgate said: "We have to get out of the group first. And then with Ukraine, you're pulling for them naturally just because of everything that's going on and you want to give the people hope and spirit so it would be nice to see Ukraine pull through.

The 2022 FIFA World Cup draw was held on Friday in Doha and this year's event in Qatar promises early drama after a number of intriguing group draws.

Canada have two semifinalists from 2018 in Belgium and Croatia in their group, and if Costa Rica make it, they just have to worry about Spain and Germany  -- Roger Gonzalez Changing coach in a World Cup year is never easy, but that has now happened and the Indomitable Lions will at least be motivated to play for such a legendary figure. USMNT rivalry aside, the Three Lions will feel pleased with their group as Iran and the winner of Scotland, Wales or Ukraine's eventual UEFA playoff should not cause too much fear. Getting Spain and Germany is pretty brutal with a playoff team to be added to the mix as well. The defending champions will be undaunted by drawing strong qualifiers Denmark who they know well from 2018. Now that the World Cup groups have been drawn, we can look at the makeup of the eight pools and assess who has received the best and worst scenarios.

Iran lost only three out of 18 total World Cup qualifiers, while a potential Wales appearance would added Gareth Bale and the No. 18 team in the FIFA rankings ...

Portugal was the final team into Pot 1 but looks to have its hands full with Ghana coming out of Pot 4. The pairings are quite uncanny considering that Brazil, Serbia and Switzerland also shared a group in 2018. This is already turning out to be one of the most formidable groups, and a clear potential Group of Death candidate. Four of the last five champions haven’t gotten out of the group in their title defenses. And while it’s not Serbia or Senegal, Japan could arguably be one of the tougher Pot 3 teams. The bad news is that a potential matchup with Wales, ranked 18th in the FIFA world rankings, waits in the wings if Gareth Bale & Co. can win its June playoff.

Millions around the world will be tuning in to the FIFA World Cup Draw, where the 32 participating nations will know their group-stage fate and the path ...

Teams drawn from Pot 1 into a group will automatically occupy the first slot in a group (Ex. A1, B1, C1, etc.), but the other slots will be drawn at random. The draw will start with Pot 1 and end with Pot 4. If there's a geographic clash, the team drawn is simply moved to the next group in sequence. The Wales/Scotland/Ukraine placeholder will be treated like any other European participant as far as geographic restrictions (maximum two European nations per group). 12:25 p.m.: Gianni Infantino says that the Qatar World Cup will be the best one ever. If they keep it up, they could be setting a new record in Qatar. All the VIPs are there. Geographic restrictions: Teams from the same region cannot be drawn in the same group with the exception of Europe. Since there are 13 European teams in the draw and only eight groups (A-H), a maximum two European nations are permitted in a single group. Mexico coach Tata Martino will go up against his home nation and a team he once coached. Teams are drawn one by one from the pot and are slotted sequentially into a group beginning with Group A and moving on through Group H. USA: In the US, the draw will be broadcast on FS1 (English) and on Telemundo and Universo (Spanish). Those channels can be streamed on fuboTV, which is available to new users on a free trial. He also pleaded for peace in the world and said he wants the World Cup to be one of unity.

Will the Qatar edition mark the first time in 20 years that a non-European nation takes home the World Cup trophy?

Otto Addo was placed in temporary charge for that playoff and he could point with justifiable satisfaction to the way his side controlled the game even in the hostile atmosphere in Abuja. It may feel it has a point to prove against Uruguay, after the way Luis Suarez’s handball denied it at the last minute in the 2010 quarterfinal. Óscar Tabárez had been in charge for 15 years, had reshaped the entire structure of the country’s coaching and youth development, won a Copa América and led his side to a World Cup semifinal, but a sense of staleness had taken hold. Brazil won the World Cup last time it was staged in Asia. Twenty years on, it is one of probably only two sides with a realistic chance of putting a stop to the run of four straight European winners that have followed. Son Heung-min is the obvious star, but this is a side based on its defense; it conceded just three goals in those 10 group games. It went out in the group at the African Cup of Nations, and rather limped through qualifying, needing a highly questionable penalty against South Africa to top its group before an away goals win over Nigeria in the playoff. Kevin De Bruyne remains one of the best midfielders in the world, but, while there are questions about Romelu Lukaku’s form, the biggest issues are at the back where Jan Vertonghen and Toby Alderweireld will have a combined age of 68 by the time the World Cup begins. It had only ever won two matches at a World Cup stage, but one of those was against the U. S. in 1998. It faces familiar opposition in Mexico, now under a former Argentina coach in Gerardo Martino. They met in the first World Cup and they’ve met twice since, Argentina wining on all three occasions. Memories of that embarrassment and Gareth Southgate’s admirable sobriety should guard against overconfidence, as should the fact that, by world ranking, this is the toughest group. Which, of course, brings up the biggest issue of this World Cup: that it is being held in Qatar, the most controversial host since the Argentinian junta of 1978. Hosts are never easy to assess given their dearth of qualifiers, but despite that Asian Cup success in 2019, there must be concern about the string of heavy defeats to Portugal, Ireland and Serbia last autumn and a draw against Azerbaijan. South Africa, though, remains the only host to fail to make it out of the group. And that perhaps hints at a growing sense that the expansion of football seen in the 1980s and ’90s is heading into retreat, that money is beginning to dominate the international game as the major western European nations invest in youth development.

The USMNT has high hopes heading into Qatar 2022. A young team with plenty of talent has an opportunity to stake a claim as one of the best U.S. teams ever, ...

Infamously, the U. S. did not qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. A team with plenty of talent entering its prime, the squad is bursting with promise for the future. At the striker position, the team has been unable to replace the presence of Jozy Altidore, and while young talents like Ricardo Pepi and Jesus Ferreira provide hope for the future, they do not yet appear to be ready to carry the goalscoring load. This team is stacked at the wing position, with four starting-caliber wingers in Christian Pulisic, Gio Reyna, Brenden Aaronson, and Tim Weah, necessitating a possible drop for Reyna into midfield. However, there will be aspirations of reaching the knockout stage, and even potentially winning a game, and a group stage exit would be seen as a disappointment, likely received as yet another wasted cycle. Since, they've reached the World Cup 10 times in 21 tournaments, missing a long stretch between 1954 and 1986 before establishing themselves as a consistent participant.

Spain and Germany will face off in the headline act of the group stages at the 2022 World Cup after the draw for the tournament was made in Doha on Friday.

The two are also joined by the Netherlands and Senegal in Group A.Qatar has relatively recent experience of playing South American nations after being invited to the 2019 Copa America. The Qataris acquitted themselves well, making Argentina work hard for a 2-0 win and earning a well-deserved pointed against Paraguay.France, winners of the 2018 and 1998 World Cups, were drawn into Group D with Denmark, Tunisia and the winner of an Intercontinental play-off -- either Australia, United Arab Emirates or Peru.Group B also offers up a number of interesting clashes, with 2018 semifinalists England facing the USA, Iran and one of Wales, Scotland or Ukraine. The last time England faced the USA at a World Cup was back in 2010 -- and it's a match that still gives English fans nightmares.A calamitous error from then goalkeeper Rob Green gifted the Americans an equalizer after Steven Gerrard had opened the scoring for England.Ghana has also been offered a change of revenge of sorts after being drawn in Group H alongside Uruguay.In 2010, Luis Suarez infamously used his hands to block Dominic Adiyiah's goalbound effort on the line in the dying seconds of their quarterfinal.Asamoah Gyan missed the subsequent penalty -- resulting in Suarez running down the tunnel in celebration -- and Uruguay eventually reached the semifinals after a penalty shootout.Portugal, with Cristiano Ronaldo likely appearing at his last World Cup, and South Korea complete Group H in what will perhaps be one of the trickier groups to predict.Qatar 2022 will also likely be Lionel Messi's last World Cup for Argentina. Like Ronaldo, the 34-year-old has never won the World Cup but came agonizingly close in 2014, losing out to Germany in the final.Under Lionel Scaloni, the Argentines are in a considerably better place than they were four years ago in Russia and will certainly be confident of advancing out of group that includes Mexico, Poland and Saudi Arabia.Canada's reward for qualifying for a first World Cup in 36 years is a showdown against two of European football's leading protagonists in recent years. FIFA World Cup draw: Spain and Germany to face off in mouth-watering group stage matchSpain and Germany will face off in the headline act of the group stages at the 2022 World Cup after the draw for the tournament was made in Doha on Friday. Group E is undoubtedly the most intriguing, with the Spanish and Germans joined by Japan and either Costa Rica or New Zealand, with their deciding playoff match scheduled for June 13 or 14.Germany will certainly be hoping the match will be nothing like the previous meeting between the two nations, as Spain ran riot in a 6-0 victory during the Nations League in 2020.Host nation Qatar will play Ecuador in the opening day's third match after their World Cup opener was moved to better suit TV audiences in the South American nation.

The United States was drawn into Group B for the 2022 World Cup with England, Iran and the winner of a UEFA playoff.

The handshakes before the game in France had to be choreographed, and Iran’s players gave U. S. players white roses as a symbol of peace. “Overall, it’s going to be a strong group,” Berhalter said. They have played Wales only twice, winning once and playing to a 0-0 tie in 2020. “I’m not sure the tension is what it (was). If we were friends back in ’98, 24 years later, I don’t see it any differently,” Berhalter said. The USMNT has only faced Iran twice, including a 2-1 loss at the 1998 World Cup that had significant political overtones. That means teams in the first groups, including the USMNT, will have little time together before their first match. Two years earlier, it reached the semifinals at the World Cup in Russia. Drawn into Group B on Friday, the Americans also will play Iran and either Scotland, Ukraine or Wales in the World Cup later this year. “We’re going to have to be really effective in these weeks in June and then when we get together in September. Because when we get to Qatar, it’s basically prep for a game and go from there.” We want to have an impact, obviously on ourselves and our team, but ultimately on how (U. S.) soccer is viewed. Play well against England, and it can open eyes and opportunities for this group of players and the ones who will come after them. “That’s something that’s always reiterated when we go into camp, to change the way the world views American soccer.

We now know the FIFA World Cup draw in full after the groups for Qatar 2022 were confirmed. The USMNT will meet England in Group B.

Tournament hosts Qatar were automatically the first team drawn as they were placed in Group A. Qatar were joined in Group A by Ecuador, Senegal and Holland. Scotland and Ukraine are due to meet in Glasgow in June, with the winner taking on Wales in Cardiff a week later for a place in Group B.

Fans around the world will be treated to some top-quality matchups in the group stage.

...  Ghana didn't qualify in 2018 but has proven itself at the World Cup before, reaching the knockout stage in 2006 and 2010. Familiar faces such as Neymar (PSG), Thiago Silva (Chelsea) and Casemiro (Real Madrid) welcome a talented group of youngsters to the mix. Goalkeeper Keylor Navas is among the world's best and forward Joel Campbell delivers in big games for the Ticos. ... Striker Chris Wood (Newcastle United) is a player to watch for New Zealand. One of the most consistent scorers in England for years, Wood has 33 goals in 65 international appearances. ... Regularly among the top teams in Africa, Tunisia features a handful of players based in Europe and went wire-to-wire with England in its 2018 opener, only to lose on a goal in stoppage time. Belgium finished third at the 2018 World Cup and its lineup features Kevin de Bruyne (Manchester City) and Romelo Lukaku (Chelsea), but captain Eden Hazard (Real Madrid) has been hampered by injuries. ... Denmark made it to the knockout stage in 2018 and all eyes will be on midfielder Christian Eriksen, who returned this year after collapsing on the field at the European championship in 2021 when he went into cardiac arrest. Group F also features two heavyweights, with the 2018 runner-up (Croatia) and third-place finisher (Belgium) meeting in the final game. Manager Luis Enrique is going to have to make some tough decisions for Spain, assembling a roster filled with (very) young talent such as Barcelona's Pedri (19) and Ferran Torres (22) as well as holdovers including midfielder Sergio Busquets. ... Costa Rica finished last in its group in 2018 after a quarterfinal run in 2014. Captain Virgil Van Dijk (Liverpool) anchors a strong defense with Frenkie de Jong (Barcelona) and Georginio Wijnaldum (PSG) in midfield and Memphis Depay (Barcelona) up top. Brazil will be one of the tournament favorites but haven't won it all since 2002, the second-longest drought in the nation's history. Iran has qualified for the third consecutive tournament and was unlucky not to advance in both 2014 and 2018. Led by Lionel Messi, Argentina is certainly the favorite to win the group.

As World Cup draws go, the United States men's national team didn't get the toughest assignment for the 2022 World Cup, but it's also far from easy.

Getting past any one of those teams and reaching the quarterfinals, where a matchup with Argentina is possible, would be a magnificent accomplishment. Of course, Gareth Southgate's side will be the favorites to progress, even as the U. S. has historically given the English all it could handle. Iran is consistently one of the top teams in the Asian Football Confederation, reaching the semifinals of the Asian Cup as recently as 2019. But if the U.S. can repeat its feat from 2010 and top the group, a tough matchup against one of hosts Qatar, Ecuador and Senegal -- with its superstar trio of Sadio Mane, Edouard Mendy and captain Kalidou Koulibaly -- awaits. "And then we have Iran, which is a difficult opponent given they've finished first in their group of qualifying in Asia, the first Asian team to qualify after [hosts] Qatar, scored a lot of goals, dangerous team and then the unknown of Scotland, Wales or Ukraine. Scotland and Wales are pretty similar in terms of how they're approaching the game. But that is getting ahead of ourselves. Based on FIFA's rankings -- which admittedly should be taken with a grain of salt -- Iran is the lowest-ranked team in Group B at No. 21. It's going to be a good test either way. It's going be a good opponent." "It was amazing to get England in our group," he said. In pure soccer terms, that will present its own special kind of challenge. The fourth-ranked team in every other group has a worse ranking.

Often, draws do not mean what they seem to mean at first reading. Just ask Spain and Germany.

After all the pomp and the circumstance, the video montages and the marketing spiel dressed up as mission statements, all you can say with any certainty is that it will, when it comes, be colorful. The guys are fearless.” England might be comfortable favorites to win their group, but there is no reason to believe the United States — returning after an eight-year absence — cannot finish second. But the group stage draw is not really a draw just for the group stage: It is a road map for the entire tournament, too.

Gregg Berhalter, Tyler Adams, Christian Pulisic and Weston McKennie spoke about the World Cup challenge that awaits.

So it’s going be important that now we have the mindset going into this tournament that we have really good performances.” “To be honest, the sooner the better for me. “I think everyone really knows a lot about England and what they have to offer, and their roster and the players that they have, the caliber of them,” U. S. midfielder Weston McKennie said. On Friday, as Berhalter and his players were taking it all in, it was more about the excitement of returning to this stage and, as Adams said, simply seeing the U. S. included in the draw and imagining what might be possible. I consider him an excellent coach, and have a lot of respect for what he’s done with the program.” While one is the birthplace of the game and the other is relatively new to it, the exposure English football enjoys in the U.S. is massive and its influence on U.S. soccer is immeasurable. Pulisic is one of a handful of U. S. players with ties to England. Several play in the Premier League or Championship, left back Antonee Robinson is a native and midfielder Yunus Musah spent a chunk of his childhood there. “So I honestly didn’t have any expectations going into [the draw]. I’ve had a couple Champions League draws now, and I’ve had what’s the ‘group of death’ where we had Man City and PSG, and then I’ve had groups that are quote-unquote a little bit easier. When you add that European team to it, it’s going to be a well-rounded group and it’s going be difficult to advance. But that’s a positive, because I think everyone’s going to be battling and … I think it will come down to the last game.” But I’m going on fumes and it’s a positive type of fumes that you’re going on. “We had plans to go to Dubai a week before with the entire team.

The United States men's national soccer team now knows the road it will take at the 2022 World Cup, and it is a treacherous one, though not in the way you ...

National teams are collages; the players grow and change in isolation at their clubs, then every couple of months they have to be fitted together in the best way possible. With the two teams meeting in the last match of the first round, it could be the decider for the U. S., which lost to Iran in the 1998 tournament. Similarly, Reyna might be key to unlocking the best version of Pulisic for his country. (It did play Wales to a 0–0 draw in the first match back after the pandemic began, in late 2020.) The last time the U.S. played someone who will be among the favorites in 2022 was a November 2018 friendly against, of all people, England. It lost 3–0. (America’s next game against the failed-to-qualify-but-still-current-European-champions Italy was a 1–0 defeat.) Berhalter hadn’t even been hired yet. After that, FIFA has scheduled a two-game international window in September that’s the last chance to play international games before players are released for the World Cup on November 14. The U. S. was mostly good in qualifying, but it has been playing in a bubble for a long time now, squaring off against just a handful of non–North American teams in the past year. The players America used in qualifying had the youngest age of any already-qualified team by two entire years. All of which is to say that this USMNT is unproven, and one suspects that the team would be best served testing itself against whatever quality opposition it can find. The draw on Friday placed the U. S. in Group B along with England, Iran, and a European team to be named later. The U.S. has a lot of good and bad days. It has to like its odds, but short tournaments are high-variance events (ask Gonzaga). The USMNT drew one of the easiest groups in the 2010 tournament (England, Algeria, Slovenia) and one of the most difficult in the 2014 tournament (Germany, Portugal, Ghana) and managed to advance out of both. Iran stormed through the last round of Asian qualifying, losing just once (to South Korea, away) in the final round to top its group.

France have hopes of defending their World Cup crown heading into Qatar 2022. Les Bleus are an experienced side with many proven winners and their ...

The 1998 World Cup-winning captain has brought great success to Les Bleus, repeating that triumph as a coach in 2018 before rebounding from Euro 2021 disappointment with 2021 Nations League success. Belgium World Cup Semi-Final 2018, 4-2 vs Croatia World Cup Final 2018, 2-1 vs. Argentina FIFA World Cup 2018, 1-0 vs.

The 2022 World Cup draw took place on Friday, with the 29 qualified nations and three remaining slots being organised into eight groups.