FIFA World Cup qualification - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_qualificationThe FIFA World Cup qualification is the process that a national association football team goes through to qualify for the final tournament of the FIFA World Cup. The qualification reduces the large field of eligible entrants from 211 to just 32 for the finals as of the 2022 edition (to be expanded to 48 from 2026 onwards). Qualifying tournaments are held within FIFA's six continental zones and are organized by their resp…
2022 FIFA World Cup qualification - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_FIFA_World_Cup_qualificationThe 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification is the qualifying process which will decide 31 of the 32 teams that will participate in the 2022 FIFA World Cup, joining hosts Qatar, who received an automatic spot. Parallel tournaments are organised by FIFA's six confederations. Qualification started on 6 June 2019, when the first match played was between Mongolia and Brunei and the first goal was scored by Mongolian player Norjmoogiin Tsedenbal, and is set to end in June 2022 with the inter-confederati…