MIAMI, Florida – The draw details for the Concacaf Qualifiers to FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 are confirmed. The draw will take place live August 19, at 1:00 pm ET and fans will be able to follow the draw live on FIFA.com, with the exception of the territories where the draw will be broadcast live on TV.
As previously announced, the Concacaf Qualifiers for Qatar 2022 will take place over the course of three rounds, beginning with the First Round in October and November 2020. 30 of Concacaf’s 35 FIFA Member Associations will start the journey to compete for the region’s 3.5 qualifying spots.
Based on the FIFA World Ranking as of 16 July 2020, the draw for the first round will allocate the 30 lowest-ranked Concacaf teams to six groups.
The pots for the first-round draw are as follows:
Pot 1: El Salvador, Canada, Curaçao, Panama, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago
Pot 2: Antigua and Barbuda, Guatemala, St Kitts and Nevis, Suriname, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic
Pot 3: Grenada, Barbados, Guyana, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Bermuda, Belize
Pot 4: St Lucia, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Montserrat, Dominica, Cayman Islands
Pot 5: Bahamas, Aruba, Turks and Caicos Islands, US Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla
The draw will begin by allocating the 30 teams into six different groups consisting of five teams in each group. The six teams from Pot 1, including 2018 FIFA World Cup participant Panama, will be pre-seeded to positions A1, B1, C1, D1, E1 and F1.
The highest ranked team in Pot 1, El Salvador, will occupy position A1, while the lowest ranked team in Pot 1, Trinidad and Tobago, will occupy position F1.
The draw will continue by identifying groups for teams in Pots 2, 3, 4 and 5. The position which each team occupies in a group is determined based on the pot from which it is drawn. For example, teams from Pot 2 will be placed in position 2 of each group, teams from Pot 3 in position 3 of each group and so on.
Teams drawn from each pot will be allocated to groups sequentially: A to F. The first team drawn will be placed in Group A, the next team drawn will be placed in Group B and so un until Group F.
Match Schedule:
Below is the match schedule for FIFA Window 1 and FIFA Window 2:
FIFA Window 1 - October 2020
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Thu |
Fri |
Sat |
Sun |
Mon |
Tue |
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2 vs 4 |
1 vs 3 |
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5 vs 2 |
4 vs 1 |
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3 vs 5 |
FIFA Window 2 - November 2020
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Wed |
Thu |
Fri |
Sat |
Sun |
Mon |
Tue |
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4 vs 5 |
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2 vs 3 |
5 vs 1 |
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3 vs 4 |
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1 vs 2 |
Following the completion of each group’s single round-round matches, the winners of each of the six groups will advance to the Second Round of the Concacaf Qualifiers, scheduled to take place March 2021.
The Second Round will feature a two-legged tie between the six group winners, with the winner of Group A scheduled to play against Group F, Group B vs. Group E and Group C vs. Group D.
The winners of these three two-legged ties will then advance to the Final Round of Concacaf the Qualifiers, beginning in June 2021.
