All 29 Teams That Have Qualified For 2022 FIFA World Cup

Teams Qualified For qatar 2022

World Cup qualifying has been coming thick and fast over the past few days as the final spots get confirmed ahead of Friday’s draw.Remarkably, we still won’t know every team who will be playing at Qatar 2022 by the end of this window with the inter-confederation play-offs coming on June 13-14 as well as Ukraine’s tie with Scotland getting pushed to June.However, we are close to the final line-up, so let’s break it down (scroll to the bottom for the full list of qualified nations)…

Which Teams Have Qualified For Qatar 2022?

HOST NATION

Qatar have long been confirmed for obvious reasons. It might be the last time for a while that we see a single team qualify automatically with a three-way host in 2026 (US, Canada and Mexico) and plenty of multi-team bids for 2030. Do with that information what you will.

EUROPE

European qualifiers 2022

Okay, so a quick rundown for those who might forget. 10 groups with either five or six teams. Top team qualifies automatically. The 10 runners-up as well as the two best Nations League group winners went into a 12-team play-off structure with three effective paths of four teams each that will provide three qualified teams.

On Tuesday night, Poland and Portugal booked their places. That gives us the following list of qualified teams from Europe.

  • Germany
  • Denmark
  • France
  • Belgium
  • Croatia
  • Spain
  • Serbia
  • England
  • Switzerland
  • Netherlands
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Scotland or Ukraine or Wales

SOUTH AMERICA

south americans qualifiers 2022

Far easier format here. 10 South American teams play each other home and away. Top four go through automatically and the fifth team goes into inter-confederation play-offs. Here are the representatives.

  • Brazil
  • Argentina
  • Ecuador
  • Uruguay
  • Peru go to inter-confederation play-off

AFRICA

african qualifiers 2022

Three rounds (knockouts then group stage then knockouts) leaves us with five teams to represent Africa. Those five have been confirmed tonight following the culmination of the two-legged play-offs.

  • Senegal
  • Cameroon
  • Ghana
  • Morocco
  • Tunisia

NORTH AMERICA

world cup qualifiers 2022

Three rounds leaves us with eight teams battling for three automatic spots and one inter-confederation place. Here are the teams that are through.

  • Canada
  • Mexico
  • USA
  • Costa Rica go to inter-confederation play-off (to face New Zealand)

ASIA

Another with three rounds. The third round has two groups of six teams. Top two in each group go through automatically. The two third-placed teams will face off to determine who goes through to the inter-confederation play-off. Here are the teams that are through.

  • South Korea
  • Iran
  • Japan
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Australia/United Arab Emirates will go through to inter-confederation play-off.

OFC

The winners of two four-team groups went head-to-head to see who would progress to the inter-confederation play-off. The qualified team is therefore pretty simple.

  • New Zealand (through to face Costa Rica)

INTER-CONFEDERATION PLAY-OFFS

Here are the two play-off permutations. They will be AFC (Asia) v CONMEBOL (South America) and CONCACAF (North America) v OFC (Oceania).

  • Australia/United Arab Emirates v Peru
  • Costa Rica v New Zealand

LIST OF 2022 WORLD CUP TEAMS IN FULL

29 out of 32 places confirmed:

  • Qatar
  • Germany
  • Denmark
  • France
  • Belgium
  • Croatia
  • Spain
  • Serbia
  • England
  • Switzerland
  • Netherlands
  • Brazil
  • Argentina
  • Ecuador
  • Uruguay
  • Iran
  • South Korea
  • Japan
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Canada
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Senegal
  • Ghana
  • Morocco
  • Tunisia
  • Cameroon
  • United States
  • Mexico

How many European teams qualified for 2022?

In the 2022 cycle, UEFA brought 12 teams into the playoff — 10 group stage second-place finishers plus two qualifiers from UEFA Nations League play — and split them up into three four-team mini-brackets — or “paths” — with the winner of each path reaching the World Cup.

Is there a Group of Death in 2022 World Cup?

While there may be no obvious ‘Group of Death’ at the 2022 World Cup, some teams will feel they got the short straw by landing in a group of equally competitive teams. There are a few of those in this tournament which kicks off in November.

World Cup 2022 dates

World Cup 2022 is set to take place in Qatar from November 21, 2022–December 18, 2022.