Intercontinental playoff draw: 4th-placed team in CONCACAF plays 5th-placed Asian team, Oceania champ plays 5th-place CONMEBOL (South America)
Are they always this awkward? First time watcher, but this is a brutal production. Also just a terrible look to walk out Jerome for this, but I guess nothing less is expected.
Yep. This is going to be a long drawn out process with musical/artistic acts in between each federation's draw.
Africa Qualifying Process Round 1 is the 26 lowest ranked countries drawn in 13 home and away series to play October 5-13 2015 Round 2 is the 13 winners from R1 and remaining 27 countries drawn into 20 home and away series to play November 9-17 2015 Round 3 is the 20 winners from R2 drawn in 5 groups of 4. Matches are played starting October 3 2016. The winners of the group advance to World Cup 2018 Round 1 Round 2
CONCACAF Qualifying Process Round 3. 12 countries split into 2 pots based on FIFA ranking. Draw is for home and away series to be played August 31 to September 8th Round 4. The 6 winners from R3 join the 6 highest ranked countries. Draw into 3 groups of 4. The group winner and runner ups of those group advance to Round 5. Round 5 is round robin home and away single group of 6. Matches start November 7 2016. The top 3 advance to World Cup 2018. The 4th place will play the 5th placed Asia country. Round 3 Round 4
Still blows my mind that Wales is a seeded team. At least Greece finally isn't. They ran the 2004 euro results to easy seeding for years.
Oceania Qualifying Process Round 2 is two groups of 4. Home and away. Top 3 in each group advance to Round 3 Round 3 is a single group of 6. Home and away with the group winner advancing to the playoff against 5th-place CONMEBOL (South America). Round 2
U.S. with the cakewalk group. Group B is unbelievably fucked. All four of those teams are Hex quality.
Group A: Mexico Honduras Curaçao/El Salvador Canada/Belize Group B: Costa Rica Panama Jamaica/Nicaragua Haiti/Grenada Group C: USA Trinidad St. Vincent/Aruba Antigua/Guatemala
CONMEBOL (South America) Qualifying Process Single round of 1 group with 10 countries. Matchup for the group stage is based on the team number drawn. Top 4 advanced directly to World Cup 2018. 5th place team will play the winner of Oceania. Group Match Schedule on Pages 3 and 4 http://resources.fifa.com/mm/docume...71/53/southamerica_drawprocedures_neutral.pdf
UEFA Qualifying Process Round 1. 52 countries divided into 5 pots of 9 and 1 pot of 7. The group winners advance directly to World Cup 2018. The 8 best group runner ups will go to Round 2. Round 2. 8 group winner runner ups are drawn into 4 home and away series. The 4 winners will go to World Cup 2018. Group
Peru/Chile about to start on bein, should be good. Argentina in some trouble with 1 point through 2 and Brazil up next.
Some matches this break on beIN (unless noted otherwise) Thursday 11/12 2:50PM Bolivia vs Venezuela 5PM Ecuador vs Uruguay 6:50PM Argentina vs Brazil Friday 11/13 7PM ESPN USA vs St Vincent & the Grenadines 8:50PM Jamaica vs Panama Saturday 11/14 8:20AM Tanzania vs Algeria Sunday 11/15 7:50AM Zambia vs Sudan 9:55AM Equatorial Guinea vs Morocco 1:55PM Guinea vs Namibia
This will be my first time ever getting to go to a US qualifier. I'm excited, but it being at a baseball stadium and against a terrible team slightly takes away from it.
Conmebol qualifying today/tonight Colombia with a late win over Bolivia. James scored. Chile hosting Argentina, up 1-0.