2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifying (ItsHosuke's Football Scenario)

The 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification process will decide 31 of the 32 teams which will play in the 2022 FIFA World Cup, with the hosts Qatar qualifying automatically. The 210 remaining FIFA member associations would be eligible to enter the qualifying process.
== Qualified teams ==
== Team allocation ==
 decided that the allocations of 2022 would be the same with the 2014 and 2018 tournaments.
Confederation	Available slots	
AFC 	4.5+1 	
CAF 	5 	
CONCACAF 	3.5 	
CONMEBOL 	4.5 	
OFC 	0.5 	
UEFA 	13 	
Total 	31+1 	
== AFC ==
===First Round===
12 teams (ranked 35–46) played home-and-away over two legs. The six winners advanced to the second round 
Team 1 	 	Team 2 	1st leg	2nd leg
Singapore 	4-1 	Pakistan 	2-0 	2–1
Malaysia 	1-2 	Guam 	1-0 	0-2
Laos 	5-1 	Sri Lanka 	3-0 	2–1
Timor-Leste	2–4 	Bangladesh 	2-2 	0-2
Macau 	0-1 	Brunei Darussalam	0–1 	0–0
Bhutan 	1-1 ()	Mongolia 	0–0 	1-1
===Second Round===
40 teams (ranked 1–34 and the six first round winners) were divided into eight groups of five teams to play home-and-away round-robin matches. The eight group winners and the four best group runners-up advanced to the third round of FIFA World Cup qualification as well as qualify for the 2019 AFC Asian Cup finals. Qatar, the hosts, will also participate in this round of qualification.
====Group A====
 	Team 	 	 	 	 	 	
1	Australia	4	4	0	0	12	12
2	Vietnam 	4	3	0	1	4 	9
3	Guam 	4	2	0	2	-6	6
4	Bahrain 	4	0	1	3	-4	1
5	Yemen 	4	0	1	3	-6	1
====Group B====
 	Team 	 	 	 	 	 	
1	Uzbekistan 	4	3	0	1	5 	9
2	North Korea 	4	3	0	1	1 	9
3	Saudi Arabia	4	2	1	1	5 	7
4	Singapore 	4	1	0	3	-7	3
5	Hong Kong 	4	0	1	3	-4	1
====Group C====
 	Team 	 	 	 	 	 	
1	Japan 	4	3	1	0	11	10
2	Kyrgyzstan 	4	1	3	0	1 	6
3	Philippines	4	0	3	1	-1	3
4	Cambodia 	4	0	3	1	-6	3
5	Afghanistan	4	0	2	2	-5	2
====Group D====
 	Team 	 	 	 	 	 	
1	UAE 	4	3	1	0	14 	10
2	Iraq 	4	3	1	0	12 	10
3	Palestine	4	1	1	2	-5 	4
4	Myanmar 	4	0	2	2	-6 	2
5	Nepal 	4	0	1	3	-15	1
====Group E====
 	Team 	 	 	 	 	 	
1	Tajikistan 	4	3	1	0	5 	10
2	South Korea 	4	2	1	1	11 	7
3	Kuwait 	4	1	3	0	1 	6
4	Qatar 	4	1	1	2	-3 	4
5	Brunei Darussalam	4	0	0	4	-14	0
====Group F====
 	Team 	 	 	 	 	 	
1	Thailand 	4	4	0	0	6 	12
2	China 	4	2	1	1	6 	7
3	Lebanon 	4	1	2	1	0 	5
4	Bangladesh	4	1	1	2	-6	4
5	Maldives 	4	0	0	4	-6	0
====Group G====
 	Team 	 	 	 	 	 	
1	Syria 	4	2	2	0	2 	8
2	Oman 	4	1	3	0	1 	6
3	Laos 	4	1	2	1	0 	5
4	Jordan 	4	0	3	1	-1	3
5	Chinese Taipei	4	1	0	3	-2	3
====Group H====
 	Team 	 	 	 	 	 	
1	Iran 	4	3	1	0	15 	10
2	Turkmenistan	4	3	1	0	6 	10
3	India 	4	2	0	2	-1 	6
4	Indonesia 	4	1	0	3	-4 	3
5	Bhutan 	4	0	0	4	-16	0
===Matches===
Main article: 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifying AFC Matches (ItsHosuke's Football Scenario)
== CAF ==
===First Round===
28 teams (ranked 27–54) played home-and-away over two legs. The 14 winners advanced to the second round
Team 1 	 	Team 2 	1st leg	2nd leg
Sierra Leone 	7-0	Somalia 	4-0 	3-0
Mozambique 	6-0	Djibouti 	3-0 	3-0
Namibia 	3-0	Equatorial Guinea 	2-0 	1-0
Sudan 	2-0	Gambia 	2-0 	0-0
Zimbabwe 	2-3	Botswana 	2-2 	0–1
Tanzania 	5-0	Burundi 	3-0 	2-0
Guinea-Bissau	1-2	Ethiopia 	1-1 	0-1
Angola 	5-0	Eritrea 	4-0 	1-0
Togo 	3-1	Seychelles 	2-1 	1-0
Malawi 	5-0	Sao Tome e Principe	3-0 	2-0
Swaziland 	1-3	South Sudan 	1-0 	0-3
Rwanda 	3-2	Liberia 	2-2 	1-0
Lesotho 	1-3	Chad 	1-1 	0-2
Comoros 	2-0	Mauritius 	2-0 	0-0
===Second Round===
40 teams (teams ranked 1–26 and 14 first round winners) played home-and-away over two legs. The 20 winners advanced to the third round.
Team 1 	 	Team 2 	1st leg	2nd leg
Tunisia 	5-0 	South Sudan 	4-0 	1-0
Senegal 	4-0 	Botswana 	2-0 	2-0
DR Congo 	2-1 	Chad 	1-0 	1-1
Morocco 	3-2 	Ethiopia 	2-0 	1-2
Egypt 	3-1 	Comoros 	2-0 	1–1
Ghana 	4-0 	Rwanda 	2-0 	2-0
Nigeria 	2-0 	Togo 	1-0 	1-0
Cameroon 	4-0 	Malawi 	3-0 	1-0
Burkina Faso 	0-2 	Tanzania 	0-0 	0-2
Mali 	3-1 	Namibia 	2-1 	1-0
Cape Verde Islands	2-1 	Angola 	1-0 	1-1
Algeria 	2-2 ()	Sudan 	1-0 	1-2
Cote d'Ivoire 	4-1 	Central African Republic	2-0 	2-1
Guinea 	1-0 	Mozambique 	1-0 	0-0
South Africa 	2-0 	Mauritania 	1-0 	1-0
Zambia 	1-2 	Kenya 	1-0 	0-2
Uganda 	0-1 	Niger 	0-1 	0-0
Congo 	0-2 	Sierra Leone 	0-2 	0-0
Gabon 	2-2 ()	Madagascar 	1-0 	1-2
Benin 	2-3 	Libya 	2-2 	0-1
== CONCACAF ==
===First Round===
14 teams (ranked 22–35) played home-and-away over two legs. The seven winners advanced to the second round
Team 1 	 	Team 2 	1st leg	2nd leg
Puerto Rico 	9-0 	Anguilla 	5-0 	4-0
Cuba 	7-0 	Bahamas 	4-0 	3-0
Dominica 	4-2 	Turks and Caicos Islands	3-2 	1-0
St Vincent and the Grenadines	3-2 	Montserrat 	3-2 	0-0
Bermuda 	1-2 	British Virgin Islands 	1-2 	0–0
Guyana 	3-3 ()	Cayman Islands 	1-1 	2-2
Aruba 	5-1 	US Virgin Islands 	3-0 	2-1
===Second Round===
20 teams (ranked 9–21 and seven first round winners) played home-and-away over two legs. The winners advanced to the third round.
Team 1 	 	Team 2 	1st leg	2nd leg
Curacao 	3-0 	British Virgin Islands 	2-0 	1-0
Trinidad and Tobago	4-2 	Guyana 	3-1 	1-1
Haiti 	3-1 	St Vincent and the Grenadines	3-0 	0-1
Nicaragua 	5-0 	Aruba 	3-0 	2-0
Antigua and Barbuda	3-4 	St Lucia 	2-1 	1-3
Guatemala 	3-1 	Dominica 	2-1 	1-0
St Kitts and Nevis 	2-2 ()	Puerto Rico 	2-2 	0-0
Suriname 	2-0 	Cuba 	1-0 	1-0
Dominican Republic 	1-0 	Grenada 	1-0 	0-0
Barbados 	1-1 ()	Belize 	0-0 	1-1
===Third Round===
12 teams (ranked 7 and 8 and ten second round winners) played home-and-away over two legs. The winners advanced to the fourth round.
Team 1 	 	Team 2 	1st leg	2nd leg
El Salvador 	5-0	Puerto Rico 	4-0 	1-0
Panama 	3-1	St Lucia 	2-1 	1-0
Curacao 	2-1	Suriname 	1-0 	1-1
Haiti 	3-2	Barbados 	3-2 	0-0
Trinidad and Tobago	4-5	Guatemala 	3-2 	1-3
Nicaragua 	2-1	Dominican Republic	2-0 	0-1
== CONMEBOL ==
Ten teams would play in a league of home-and-away round-robin matches. The top four teams will qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, and the fifth-placed team will advance to the inter-confederation play-offs.
===Standings===
 	Team 	 	 	 	 	 	
1 	Brazil 	9	7	1	1	13 	22
2 	Colombia 	9	5	4	0	8 	19
3 	Uruguay 	9	5	3	1	7 	18
4 	Chile 	9	3	4	2	3 	13
5 	Argentina	9	3	3	3	0 	12
6 	Paraguay 	9	3	2	4	0 	11
7 	Venezuela	9	2	2	5	-5 	8
8 	Peru 	9	2	2	5	-5 	8
9 	Bolivia 	9	2	1	6	-11	7
10	Ecuador 	9	1	2	6	-10	5
===Matches===
Main article: 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifying CONMEBOL Matches (ItsHosuke's Football Scenario)
TBC
== OFC ==
OFC would be the only confederation to change their qualifying format since other than UEFA
===First Round===
The 4 lowest ranked teams entered this round. They would play a single round round-robin in a host country. The winner advances to the second round
 	Team 	 	 	 	 	 	
1	American Samoa (H) (Q)	3	2	1	0	5 	7
2	Samoa 	3	2	0	1	2 	6
3	Cook Islands 	3	1	1	1	1 	4
4	Tonga 	3	0	0	3	-8	0
(H): Host
(Q): Qualified for second round
====Matches====
Main article: 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifying OFC Matches (ItsHosuke's Football Scenario)
===Second Round===
A total of eight teams (7 higher ranked teams and the first round winner) played the tournament at a single country. For the group stage, they were divided into two groups of four teams. The top two teams of each group advanced to the third round of World Cup qualifying.
====Group A====
 	Team 	 	 	 	 	 	
1	New Zealand (H) (Q)	3	3	0	0	6 	9
2	Fiji (Q) 	3	2	0	1	0 	6
3	Tahiti 	3	0	1	2	-2	1
4	Papua New Guinea 	3	0	1	2	-4	1
(H): Host
(Q): Qualified for third round
====Matches====
Main article: 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifying OFC Matches (ItsHosuke's Football Scenario)
====Group B====
 	Team 	 	 	 	 	 	
1	New Caledonia (Q) 	3	2	1	0	3 	7
2	Solomon Islands (Q)	3	2	0	1	3 	6
3	American Samoa 	3	0	2	1	-2	2
4	Vanuatu 	3	0	1	2	-4	1
(Q): Qualified for third round
====Matches====
Main article: 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifying OFC Matches (ItsHosuke's Football Scenario)
===Third Round===
The four teams that advance from the second round would play in a round of home-and away round-robin matches to decide which country would qualify to the inter-confederation play-offs
 	Team 	 	 	 	 	 	
1	New Zealand (Q)	6	5	1	0	9 	16
2	Solomon Islands	6	3	1	2	0 	10
3	New Caledonia 	6	2	1	3	0 	7
4	Fiji 	6	0	1	5	-9	1
(Q): Advanced to inter-confederation playoffs
== UEFA ==
===First Round===
Group stage: 10 groups of 5 or 6 teams (with the 4 teams that make the 2021 UEFA Nations League Finals put into the smaller groups) with group winners qualifying for the World Cup finals.
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