NEW RULES: 2022 World Cup qualifying will feature an 8-team final round
World Cup qualifying
The new Concacaf qualifiers for Qatar 2022 will comprise of three rounds and provide all participating member associations with the chance to compete for the confederation’s 3 1/2 World Cup spots.
The first round (30 teams) will be played between the members ranked 6-35 based on the FIFA rankings as of July 16.
The 30 men’s national teams will be drawn into six groups of five in a seeded draw. The six highest ranked teams, El Salvador, Canada, Curacao, Panama, Haiti and Trinidad and Tobago will be pre-seeded into groups A to F, respectively.
Each team will play every other team in their group once, playing four matches; two home and two away. These games will be played in the FIFA match windows of October November 2020.
At the end of the first round the six group winners will progress to the Second Round.
The Second Round (six teams) will be played between the group winners from the First Round, with the matchups pre-determined as follows:
Group A winner vs Group F winner
Group B winner vs Group E winner
Group C winner vs Group D winner
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