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2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
32 teams will compete in the 2022 FIFA World Cup, with one place allocated for the hosts, China. In the qualification process for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the six FIFA confederations were allocated a share of the 31 remaining spots. The distribution is:


 * Europe (UEFA): 13 places


 * Africa (CAF): 5 places (+ South Africa qualified automatically as host nation for a total of 6 places)


 * South America (CONMEBOL): 4 or 5 places


 * Asia (AFC): 4 or 5 places


 * North, Central American and Caribbean (CONCACAF): 3 or 4 places


 * Oceania (OFC): 0 or 1 place

UEFA and CAF have a guaranteed number of places, the number of qualifiers from other confederations is dependent on play-offs between the highest placed teams in the qualification tournaments not guaranteed a place in the finals:

CONCACAF 4th place v CONMEBOL 5th place

AFC 5th place v OFC winner

At the close of entries on 15 March 2007, 204 out of the 208 FIFA members had entered the preliminary qualifying competition for the 2010 World Cup. South Africa was amongst these teams, as the qualification procedure in Africa is also due to act as the qualification for the 2010 African Nations Cup.

Only three AFC members: Brunei, Laos and the Philippines had failed to register for the tournament.

Bhutan were allowed to enter at the last minute and were included in the Asian preliminary draw, Papua New Guinea were disqualified from the Oceania Preliminary competition, and Brunei and the Philippines had their entries rejected (having missed the deadline). The final number of teams entered breaks the previous record of 185 entrants set in 2002.[2] However, five of those teams withdrew during qualifying without playing a match: Bhutan, Central African Republic, Eritrea, Guam and São Tomé and Príncipe.

2022 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)
The European Zone of the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification will see 46 teams competing for 13 places. The qualification process started on 20 August 2020, after UEFA Euro 2020. The qualification process also marks the first official competition for Montenegro.

Seeding
After initially proposing to use a similar system to recent World Cup and European Championship qualification (based on results across the previous two European qualification cycles), the UEFA Executive Committee decided on 27 September 2019 at its meeting in Istanbul that seeding for the qualifiers would be based on FIFA World Rankings, in accordance with the FIFA World Cup regulations (which note that where teams are ranked on "performance" criteria, the FIFA World Rankings must be used).

The FIFA World Ranking used for seeding was the most recent at the time of the preliminary draw, namely the November 2019 edition. Initially scheduled for 21 November, the release date was moved to 23 November to include the final match days of Euro 2020 qualification.

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