The draw for the Qatar 2022 World Cup already has a date: on April 1, the formation of the tournament groups will be known, which will be played between November 21 and December 18.
However, on this occasion the draw will have a particularity: by the date it is carried out, the 32 teams qualified for the World Cup will not yet be known.
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Which teams will remain to be known on the day of the draw
For that date, the continental playoffs will still be pending, which will face the fifth-ranked team from South America with a team from Asia and the representatives of Concacaf and Oceania in that instance.
Today, they are classified to Qatar 2022, in addition to the host, Germany, Belgium, France, Croatia, Denmark, England, Switzerland, Serbia, Spain and the Netherlands, in Europe; Brazil and Argentina, in South America, and South Korea and Iran, in Asia.
In March, the two remaining direct qualifiers from Conmebol and the three European teams that will access by playoff will be known (in which will be Portugal, Italy, Sweden, Austria, North Macedonia, Poland, Russia, Czech Republic, Turkey, Wales, Ukraine and Scotland).
The African tie will also be defined at the end of March, in which 10 teams go for 5 places: Egypt vs. Senegal, Cameroon vs. Algeria, Ghana vs. Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo vs. Morocco and Mali vs. Tunisia. The definition of two more direct quotas from the Asian Confederation is also pending. The continental playoffs will be played in June, with the World Cup already drawn.
It should be remembered that today, the Colombian National Team is out of the World Cup in Qatar and hopes to get at least a place in the playoffs.
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How the seedings are defined
It should be remembered that the designation of the World Cup seeds will be made in accordance with the FIFA world ranking for March, which will be made public one day before the draw.
The rest of the participants will also be located according to that ranking in the following lines of the draw, with the exception that teams from the same confederation, except Europe, cannot be in the same group.
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