South American preliminaries schedule

The schedule of the preliminaries in South America is as follows:

September 2023: Uruguay vs Chile, Colombia vs Venezuela, Brazil vs Bolivia, Paraguay vs Peru, Argentina vs Ecuador, Peru vs Brazil, Venezuela vs Paraguay, Bolivia vs Argentina, Chile vs Colombia, Ecuador vs Uruguay.

June 5438+1October 2023: Colombia vs Uruguay, Brazil vs Venezuela, Bolivia vs Ecuador, Argentina vs Paraguay, Chile vs Peru, Uruguay vs Brazil, Peru vs Argentina, Venezuela vs Chile, Paraguay vs Bolivia, Ecuador vs Colombia.

165438+20231October: Colombia vs Brazil, Venezuela vs Brazil, Bolivia vs Peru, Argentina vs Uruguay, Chile vs Paraguay, Uruguay vs Bolivia, Peru vs Venezuela, Brazil vs Argentina, Paraguay vs Colombia, Ecuador vs Chile.

South American preliminaries rules

South America * * *, with 10 teams, still adopts the round robin system, starting from September or 10 in the second year of the last World Cup. FIFA still allocates 4.5 places for South American teams to participate in the World Cup finals. That is, the top four directly advance, the fifth competes with other continents for a qualification to participate in the finals, and the winner advances.

On September 15, 2020, the South American Football Association confirmed that although the COVID-19 epidemic in South America is still not over, the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualifier will be held in June 10, and the 2022 World Cup South American regional qualifier was originally planned to start in March this year, but it was postponed indefinitely due to the epidemic.