World Cup 2022 play-off schedule in Europe

Schedule play-offs of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers in Europe:

Portugal has announced a list of 25 players participating in the 2022 World Cup play-off round. Notably, coach Fernando Santos does not have the service of two pillars, midfielder Ruben Dias and midfielder Renato Sanches because injury.

The frame of the Portuguese team is still Cristiano Ronaldo and the stars are roaming around Europe such as Bruno Fernandes, Bernardo Silva, Joao Felix, Joao Cancelo and Diogo Jota. However, Joao Cancelo will be suspended for the semi-final against Turkey and can only participate if the Portuguese team reaches the final.

The results of the draw for the pairing and play-off of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers in Europe:

Branch A
Pair 1: Scotland – Ukraine
Pair 2: Wales – Austria

BRANCH BRANCH
Pair 1: Russia – Poland
Pair 2: Sweden – Czech Republic

CENTRAL BRANCH
Pair 1: Italy – North Macedonia
Pair 2: Portugal – Turkey

The draw results of the play-off round of the World Cup 2022 KV Europe

The teams standing first will play at home a semi-final on the night of March 24, 2022. In the three brackets, the winners of pairs 1 and 2 will meet in the final on the night of March 29, 2022 at a venue to be announced by UEFA later. The 3 winners of the 3 finals will win tickets to Qatar.

The winner of the 2nd matchup will play the final at home in the A bracket.

The winner of match 1 will play the final at home in B bracket.

The winner of the second match (between Portugal and Turkey) will play the final at home in the C bracket.

The teams will compete in the semi-finals on March 24 and 25, 2022. The 6 winners in the semi-finals will play 3 finals of the three branches on March 28 and 29, 2022 to choose the last 3 teams to win tickets to the 2022 World Cup finals.

Play-off semi-finals within the qualifying framework World Cup 2022 European region, to be held in Zurich, Switzerland at 11pm on November 26, Vietnam time.

Participation in the play-off round includes 10 second-placed teams and 2 teams selected based on the overall standings in the UEFA Nations League 2020-2021.

If they pass the semi-finals, Portugal and Italy will face each other in the final of the C . bracket

12 teams will be drawn to compete in the semi-finals in 3 branches, with the group of 6 seeded teams being the teams with the best results in the 2022 World Cup qualifiers. The draw will begin with the allocation of 6 seeded the semi-finals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 as the hosts. The first team to be drawn will be the host in semi-final 1, the second team will be drawn for semi-final 2 and so on until all 6 seeded teams are exhausted.

The seed group includes: Portugal, Scotland, ItalyRussia, Sweden, Wales.

The group without seeding includes: Turkey, Poland, North Macedonia, Ukraine, Austria, Czech Republic.

After that, 12 teams were divided into 3 branches, 4 teams each. Through the draw, each branch will have 2 seeded teams and 2 unseeded teams. In each group, the 2 seeded teams face off against the 2 unseeded teams in the semi-finals in a single match played at the seeded team’s home ground.

The 6 winners in the semi-finals will play 3 decisive matches in the final round. The final three tickets will be determined through 3 draws as follows:

Bracket A: Winner of Semifinals 1 – Winner of Semifinals 2

Bracket: Winner of Semi-Final 3 – Winner of Semi-Final 4

Bracket C: Winner of Semifinals 5 – Winner of Semifinals 6

The three champions of the three branches will win the remaining three European places to Qatar 2022.

With the seeding, the European champions – Italy will face an unseeded opponent in the semi-finals of the draw. If they win, they enter the final, where the possibility of meeting an opponent in the seeded group is quite high, including Portugal. With the prospect of clashing in this decisive round, one of the two teams will not be able to win tickets to the 2022 World Cup finals. Therefore, the play-off round is always fierce and unpredictable.

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