World Cup 2022 Qatar draw: When is it? Who's qualified? How does it work? What happens to Russia and Ukraine?

When is the draw for the 2022 Qatar World Cup? Who has qualified? Who else can still qualify? Will Russia play at the tournament? All you need to know ahead of the draw for the 22nd edition of football’s World Cup… Ad/> When is the draw for the 2022 World Cup? World Cup Qualification UEFA‘Totally unacceptable’ — Poland calls for tougher action on Russia from FIFA28/02/2022 AT 09:52 The draw will be held on Friday, April 1 in Qatar at around 4pm GMT. How does the draw work? There will be 32 teams at the World Cup and they will be drawn into eight groups of four. Host nation Qatar will be in position one of Group A.

The remaining 31 nations will be split into four pots based on their FIFA rankings, with the highest-ranked teams in pot one, along with Qatar. Belgium, Brazil, France, Argentina and England are currently the five top-ranked teams in the world. Latest football news Eriksen in Denmark squad for first time since cardiac arrest Each four-team group can only have one nation from each of the qualifying regions, aside from Europe, which can have no more than two nations in any one group.

France are the defending champions after beating Croatia in the 2018 final. Who has qualified? When the draw takes place there will be 29 teams assured of their spots at the tournament and three more will be decided via play-offs after the draw. Hosts Qatar qualify automatically and will be joined by 13 teams from Europe.

/> There are five guaranteed places for teams from Africa, four from each of South America and Asia, and three from CONCACAF. There are also two places given to the winners of inter-confederation play-offs in June that will feature a team from each of South America, Asia, CONCACAF and Oceania. The teams who have