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Drawing or raffle for the playoffs
2026 World Cup
will take place in Zurich, Switzerland, Thursday (20/11).Who are the top teams in this draw?
From the inter-confederation playoffs, Iraq and Congo entered the seed pot.Based on the latest FIFA Rankings released Wednesday (19/11), Congo is in 56th place and Iraq 58th.
Because of this, Iraq and Congo immediately advanced to the final round of the inter-confederation playoffs.These two countries will wait for the winner of the semifinal round to be drawn.
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The four participants in the semifinals were Jamaica, Bolivia, Suriname and New Caledonia.The teams with better FIFA rankings, Jamaica and Bolivia will be the hosts.
Likewise, the final round of the playoffs will take place in the country with a better ranking.In other words, Iraq and Congo will host the final inter-confederation playoff.
From the European zone, which is competing for four tickets to the 2026 World Cup, 16 teams will participate.These 16 teams will later be drawn into the semifinal matches.
Later, the teams in the first and fourth pots will be in odd semifinal matches: 1, 3, 5, and 7. Meanwhile, the opponents will be the teams in the second and third pots.
The winners of these eight matches will face each other.The winner of semifinal match 1 will play the winner of match 2, and so on in alphabetical order.
The first pot is occupied by Italy, Denmark, Türkiye and Ukraine.Then in the second pot there are Poland, Wales, Czechia and Slovakia.The third pot is Ireland, Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and Kosovo.
The final or fourth pot is occupied by the team that advances to the playoffs from the 2024/2025 Nations League route.The four teams are Sweden, Romania, North Macedonia and Northern Ireland.
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