2026 FIFA World Cup qualification (DRose1)

The 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification process was a series of tournaments organised by the six FIFA confederations to decide 45 of the 48 teams that played in the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with hosts United States, Mexico, and Canada qualifying automatically. All 210 FIFA member associations were eligible to enter the qualifying process. Qualifiers opened in March 2023.
==Confederation qualification==
===AFC===
====First Round====
Team 1 	 	Team 2 	1st leg	2nd leg
Bhutan 	2–1	Guam 	2–0 	0–1
Macau 	0–3	Sri Lanka 	0–0 	0–3
Indonesia 	0–1	Pakistan 	0–0 	0–1
Bangladesh	8–1	Mongolia 	5–0 	3–1
Cambodia 	3–0	Timor Leste	2–0 	1–0
Laos 	7–0	Burnei 	3–0 	4–0
====Second Round====
=====Group A=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Australia 	8	8	0	0	45	2 	43 	24
Bahrain 	8	5	1	2	17	10	7 	16
India 	8	3	2	3	9 	12	-3 	11
Chinese Taipei	8	2	0	6	8 	20	-12	6
Bhutan 	8	0	1	7	1 	36	-35	1
=====Group B=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Lebanon 	8	6	1	1	10	2 	8 	19
Iran 	8	6	0	2	24	2 	22 	18
Malaysia 	8	2	2	3	7 	11	-4 	9
Sri Lanka 	8	1	3	4	4 	21	-17	6
Turkmenistan	8	0	3	5	2 	11	-9 	3
=====Group C=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
UAE 	8	7	0	1	17	3 	14 	21
North Korea	8	6	1	1	16	5 	11 	19
Uzbekistan 	8	4	1	3	21	6 	15 	13
Cambodia 	8	1	1	6	2 	26	-24	4
Afghanistan	8	0	1	7	2 	18	-16	1
=====Group D=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Japan 	8	7	1	0	48	0 	48 	22
Syria 	8	6	1	1	14	4 	10 	19
Palestine	8	3	1	4	8 	13	-5 	10
Laos 	8	1	1	6	5 	35	-30	4
Myanmar 	8	0	2	6	3 	26	-23	2
=====Group E=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Qatar 	8	6	2	0	14	3 	11 	20
Vietnam 	8	4	1	3	9 	6 	3 	13
Kyrgyzstan	8	3	2	3	7 	9 	-2 	11
Kuwait 	8	2	4	2	4 	2 	2 	10
Singapore 	8	0	1	7	2 	16	-14	1
=====Group F=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
South Korea	8	8	0	0	36	1 	35 	24
Oman 	8	6	0	2	16	7 	9 	18
Philippines	8	2	2	4	11	14	-3 	8
Bangladesh 	8	0	4	4	3 	23	-20	4
Maldives 	8	0	2	6	2 	23	-21	2
=====Group G=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Iraq 	8	6	2	0	17	3 	14	20
Jordan 	8	3	3	2	9 	5 	4 	12
Tajikistan	8	2	3	3	7 	12	-5	9
Hong Kong 	8	2	1	5	7 	15	-8	7
Pakistan 	8	1	3	4	4 	9 	-5	6
=====Group H=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Saudi Arabia	8	7	1	0	21	0 	21 	22
China 	8	5	1	2	22	6 	16 	16
Thailand 	8	3	2	3	10	9 	1 	11
Yemen 	8	1	1	6	6 	15	-9 	4
Nepal 	8	1	1	6	5 	34	-29	4
====Third Round====
=====Group A=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Australia	6	4	0	2	11	3 	8 	12
Qatar 	6	3	1	2	6 	5 	1 	10
Bahrain 	6	2	2	2	6 	9 	-3	8
Oman 	6	1	1	4	6 	12	-6	4
=====Group B=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
South Korea	6	5	0	1	14	3 	11	15
UAE 	6	4	0	2	11	9 	2 	12
Lebanon 	6	1	2	3	4 	8 	-4	5
Vietnam 	6	0	0	2	4 	10	-9	2
=====Group C=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Japan 	6	4	1	1	10	3	7 	13
Saudi Arabia	6	4	1	1	8 	4	4 	13
China 	6	1	1	4	4 	8	-4	4
North Korea 	6	1	1	4	1 	8	-7	4
=====Group D=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Iran 	6	3	3	0	15	4 	11 	12
Iraq 	6	3	3	0	8 	3 	5 	12
Syria 	6	1	2	3	6 	8 	-2 	5
Jordan	6	0	2	4	0 	14	-14	2
====Fourth Round====
=====Semi-Finals=====
Team 1 	 	Team 2 	1st leg	2nd leg
Lebanon	2–1	Syria 	2–1 	0–0
China 	2–4	Bahrain	2–1 	0–3
=====Final=====
Team 1 	 	Team 2 	1st leg	2nd leg
Lebanon	(a) 2–2	Bahrain	1–0 	1–2
===CAF===
====First Round====
Team 1 	 	Team 2 	1st leg	2nd leg
Equatorial Guinea 	3–1 	Seychelles 	1–1 	2–0
Mozambique 	1–0 	Eritrea 	0–0 	1–0
Angola 	9–0 	Somalia 	4–0 	5–0
Rwanda 	2–1 	Liberia 	0–0 	2–1
Central African Republic	3–1 	Burundi 	2–1 	1–0
Tanzania 	2–1 	Mauritius 	1–1 	1–0
Ethiopia 	2–1 	Eswatini 	1–1 	1–0
Sierra Leone 	3–0 	Chad 	1–0 	2–0
Niger 	5–1 	South Sudan 	1–0 	4–1
Togo 	6–1 	Lesotho 	2–1 	4–0
Sudan 	0–3 	Gambia 	0–1 	0–2
Libya 	14–1 	São Tomé and Príncipe	8–1 	6–0
Comoros 	(a) 1–1	Djibouti 	0–0 	1–1
Malawi 	(a) 1–1	Botswana 	0–0 	1–1
====Second Round====
=====Group A=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Algeria 	6	6	0	0	15	0 	15 	18
Zimbabwe	6	2	1	3	7 	7 	0 	7
Guinea 	6	2	1	3	7 	7 	0 	7
Rwanda 	6	1	0	5	2 	17	-15	3
=====Group B=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Egypt 	6	5	1	0	17	2 	15 	16
Congo 	6	2	2	2	6 	5 	1 	8
Tanzania	6	1	4	1	3 	2 	1 	7
Malawi 	6	0	1	5	2 	19	-17	1
=====Group C=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
DR Congo	6	5	0	1	10	5 	5 	15
Ghana 	6	4	1	1	14	5 	9 	13
Libya 	6	1	2	3	6 	11 	-5	5
Kenya 	6	0	1	5	2 	-11	-9	1
=====Group D=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Senegal 	6	6	0	0	19	0 	19 	18
Gambia 	6	2	2	2	5 	6 	-1 	8
South Africa	6	0	3	3	0 	6 	-6 	3
Sierra Leone	6	0	3	3	0 	12	-12	3
=====Group E=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Cameroon	6	6	0	0	25	1 	24 	18
Namibia 	6	3	0	3	6 	11	-5 	9
Ethiopia	6	1	2	3	5 	15	-10	5
Zambia 	6	0	2	4	4 	13	-9 	2
=====Group F=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Morocco 	6	6	0	0	12	1	11	18
Gabon 	6	2	2	2	4 	6	-2	8
Madagascar 	6	1	1	4	4 	7	-3	4
Central African Republic	6	1	1	4	2 	8	-6	4
=====Group G=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Ivory Coast	6	6	0	0	28	0 	28 	18
Benin 	6	2	2	2	6 	8 	-2 	8
Mozambique 	6	1	2	3	 	7 	-5 	5
Comoros 	6	0	2	4	1 	22	-21	2
=====Group H=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Tunisia 	6	6	0	0	15	2 	13 	18
Burkina Faso 	6	4	0	2	13	8 	5 	12
Guinea-Bissau	6	2	0	4	6 	10	-4 	6
Togo 	6	0	0	6	0 	14	-14	0
=====Group I=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Nigeria 	6	5	1	0	26	4 	22 	16
Angola 	6	4	0	2	8 	7 	1 	12
Cape Verde	6	2	1	3	13	10	3 	7
Niger 	6	0	0	6	3 	29	-26	0
=====Group J=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Mali 	6	6	0	0	12	2 	10 	18
Equatorial Guinea	6	2	2	2	6 	6 	0 	8
Uganda 	6	2	1	3	4 	4 	0 	7
Equatorial Guinea	6	0	1	5	3 	13	-10	1
=====Ranking of first-place teams=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Ivory Coast	6	6	0	0	28	0	28	18
Cameroon 	6	6	0	0	25	1	24	18
Senegal 	6	6	0	0	19	0	19	18
Algeria 	6	6	0	0	15	0	15	18
Tunisia 	6	6	0	0	15	2	13	18
Morocco 	6	6	0	0	12	1	11	18
Mali 	6	6	0	0	12	2	10	18
Nigeria 	6	5	1	0	26	4	22	16
Egypt 	6	5	1	0	17	2	15	16
DR Congo 	6	5	0	1	10	5	5 	15
===CONCACAF===
====First Round====
=====Group A=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Trinidad and Tobago 	8	7	1	0	24	1 	23 	22
Bermuda 	8	5	1	2	29	7 	22 	16
Montserrat 	8	3	3	2	18	6 	12 	12
Saint Kitts and Nevis	8	2	1	5	9 	13	-4 	7
Anguilla 	8	0	0	8	2 	55	-53	0
=====Group B=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Guatemala 	8	7	1	0	28	1 	27 	22
Canada 	8	6	1	1	47	1 	46 	19
Belize 	8	3	1	4	7 	15	-8 	10
Puerto Rico 	8	2	1	5	9 	27	-18	7
US Virgin Islands	8	0	0	8	2 	49	-47	0
=====Group C=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Curacao 	8	7	1	0	19	0 	19 	22
Dominican Republic 	8	4	1	3	16	9 	7 	13
Grenada 	8	3	2	3	15	5 	10 	11
Saint Lucia 	8	3	2	3	9 	9 	0 	11
Turk and Caicos Islands	8	0	0	8	4 	40	-36	0
=====Group D=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Panama 	8	7	1	0	37	2 	35 	22
Suriname	8	4	3	1	23	2 	21 	15
Dominica	8	3	1	4	9 	19	-10	10
Guyana 	8	2	3	3	13	8 	5 	9
Bahamas 	8	0	0	8	1 	52	-51	0
=====Group E=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	8	6	1	1	21	5 	16 	19
El Salvador 	8	4	4	0	15	4 	11 	16
Cuba 	8	4	1	3	11	7 	4 	13
Nicaragua 	8	2	2	4	16	9 	7 	8
Aruba 	8	0	0	8	2 	40	-38	0
=====Group F=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Haiti 	8	8	0	0	59	1 	58 	24
Barbados 	8	5	0	3	24	11	13 	15
Antigua and Barbuda 	8	5	0	3	23	17	6 	15
Cayman Islands 	8	2	0	6	0 	0 	-33	6
British Virgin Islands	8	0	0	8	2 	46	-44	0
====Second Round====
Team 1 	 	Team 2 	1st leg	2nd leg
Haiti 	4–2 	Trinidad and Tobago	1–1 	3–1
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	0–2 	Guatemala 	0–2 	0–0
Panama 	0–0 (1–3 pens)	Curaçao 	0–0 	0–0
====Third Round====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Costa Rica	10	8	1	1	16	3 	13 	25
Jamaica 	10	4	3	3	10	6 	4 	15
Haiti 	10	4	3	3	7 	5 	2 	15
Honduras 	10	2	4	4	6 	9 	-3 	10
Curaçao 	10	1	6	3	3 	5 	-2 	9
Guatemala 	10	1	3	6	5 	19	-14	6
===CONEMBOL===
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Brazil 	18	14	3 	1 	36	6 	30 	45
Colombia 	18	10	5 	3 	24	12	12 	35
Argentina	18	8 	6 	4 	28	15	13 	30
Uruguay 	18	5 	10	3 	23	12	11 	25
Chile 	18	5 	8 	5 	10	12	-2 	23
Paraguay 	18	5 	6 	7 	16	25	-9 	21
Venezuela	18	5 	5 	8 	14	21	-7 	20
Ecuador 	18	5 	4 	9 	14	25	-11	19
Peru 	18	3 	8 	7 	12	21	-9 	17
Bolivia 	18	1 	3 	14	7 	35	-28	6
===OFC===
====First Round====
=====Group A=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
New Zealand 	8	8	0	0	46	0 	46 	24
Tahiti 	8	3	3	0	24	9 	15 	12
Vanuatu 	8	3	3	2	17	9 	8 	12
Papua New Guinea	8	2	2	4	16	15	1 	8
Tonga 	8	0	0	8	3 	48	-45	0
=====Group B=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Solomon Islands	10	8	2	0	30	3 	27 	26
New Caledonia 	10	8	1	1	40	4 	36 	25
Fiji 	10	6	0	4	18	16	2 	18
American Samoa 	10	1	4	5	3 	17	-14	7
Cook Islands 	10	1	3	6	2 	36	-34	6
Samoa 	10	0	2	8	0 	17	-17	2
====Second Round====
=====Semi-Finals=====
Team 1 	 	Team 2 	1st leg	2nd leg
Tahiti 	1–0	Solomon Islands	1–0 	0–0
New Caledonia	2–4	New Zealand 	1–2 	1–2
=====Final=====
Team 1	 	Team 2 	1st leg	2nd leg
Tahiti	1–2	New Zealand	0–0 	1–2
===UEFA===
====First Round====
=====Group A=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Belgium 	8	6	1	1	30	3 	27 	19
Albania 	8	5	0	3	16	10	6 	15
Serbia 	8	4	1	3	16	8 	8 	13
Czech Republic	8	4	0	4	19	10	9 	12
Azerbaijan 	8	0	0	8	2 	52	-50	0
=====Group B=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Austria 	8	6	2	0	17	2 	15 	20
France 	8	6	1	1	25	4 	21 	19
Ireland 	8	2	3	3	4 	10	-6 	9
Israel 	8	2	1	5	6 	10	-4 	7
Lithuania	8	0	1	7	1 	27	-26	1
=====Group C=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Netherlands	8	6	1	1	26	5 	21 	19
Denmark 	8	4	1	3	19	7 	12 	13
Iceland 	8	4	1	3	9 	10	-1 	13
Montenegro 	8	3	1	4	10	6 	4 	10
Kazakhstan 	8	1	0	7	2 	38	-36	3
=====Group D=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Germany 	8	7	1	0	27	2 	25 	22
Scotland 	8	5	1	2	29	9 	20 	16
Ukraine 	8	4	1	3	19	7 	12 	13
Bosnia and Herzegovina	8	2	1	5	13	13	0 	7
Andorra 	8	0	0	8	0 	57	-57	0
=====Group E=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Wales 	8	6	1	1	19	3 	16 	19
England 	8	5	2	1	23	4 	19 	17
Romania 	8	5	1	2	13	11	2 	16
Bulgaria	8	2	0	6	8 	17	-9 	6
Lativa 	8	0	0	8	2 	30	-28	0
=====Group F=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Spain 	10	8	2	0	48	2 	46 	26
Greece 	10	7	1	2	27	4 	23 	22
Poland 	10	7	1	2	28	10	18 	22
Belarus 	10	2	2	6	7 	35	-28	8
Estonia 	10	1	3	6	5 	25	-20	6
Gilbraltar	10	0	1	9	3 	42	39 	1
=====Group G=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Croatia 	10	9	1	0 	43	7 	36 	28
Norway 	10	6	2	2 	31	10	21 	20
Slovakia 	10	6	0	4 	27	9 	18 	18
Slovenia 	10	5	1	4 	39	19	20 	16
Faroe Islands	10	2	0	8 	6 	33	-27	6
Moldova 	10	0	0	10	3 	71	-68	0
=====Group H=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Switzerland 	10	8	1	1 	25	4 	21 	25
Kosovo 	10	6	0	4 	18	7 	11 	18
Turkey 	10	5	3	2 	16	7 	9 	18
Finland 	10	4	2	4 	25	8 	17 	14
Georgia 	10	3	2	5 	13	11	2 	11
Liechtenstein	10	0	0	10	1 	61	-60	0
=====Group I=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Italy 	10	8	2	0 	46	2 	44 	26
Russia 	10	7	2	1 	36	1 	35 	23
Hungary	10	7	0	3 	32	8 	24 	21
Armenia	10	2	2	6 	9 	21	-12	8
Cyprus 	10	2	2	6 	7 	38	-31	8
Malta 	10	0	0	10	2 	62	-60	0
=====Group J=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Portugal 	10	6	4	0 	28	6 	22 	22
North Macedonia 	10	6	2	2 	26	10	16 	20
Sweden 	10	4	4	2 	14	3 	11 	16
Northern Ireland	10	4	4	2 	17	9 	8 	16
Luxembourg 	10	2	2	6 	16	22	-6 	8
San Marino 	10	0	0	10	2 	53	-51	0
=====Ranking of third-place teams=====
Team 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Poland 	10	7	1	2	28	10	18	22
Hungary 	10	7	0	3	32	8 	24	21
Slovakia	10	6	0	4	27	9 	18	18
Turkey 	10	5	3	2	16	7 	9 	18
Sweden 	10	4	4	2	14	3 	11	16
Romania 	8 	5	1	2	13	11	2 	16
Ukraine 	8 	4	1	3	19	7 	12	13
Serbia 	8 	4	1	3	16	8 	8 	13
Iceland 	8 	4	1	3	9 	10	-1	13
Ireland 	8 	2	3	3	4 	10	-6	9
====Second Round====
Team 1 	 	Team 2 	1st leg	2nd leg
Kosovo 	1–4 	Poland 	0–2 	1–2
Greece 	0–0 (5–3 pens)	Hungary	0–0 	0–0
Albania 	3–1 	Denmark	2–1 	1–0
Norway 	2–3 	Russia 	2–2 	0–1
Scotland 	1–9 	France 	0–4 	1–5
North Macedonia	1–4 	England	1–1 	0–3
==Inter-confederation play-offs==
===First Round===
Team 1 	Res.	Team 2
Tahiti 	0–2 	Curaçao
Lebanon	0–2 	Honduras
===Second Round===
Team 1 	Res 	Team 2
Curaçao 	2–1 	DR Congo
Honduras	1-2 (aet)	Venezuela
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