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All statistics correct as of 16 November 2021. International football competition
The south american section of the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification acts as qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Qatar, for national teams which are members of the south american Football Confederation ( CONMEBOL ). A sum of 4.5 slots ( 4 send slots and 1 inter-confederation play-off slot ) in the final tournament are available for CONMEBOL teams. [ 1 ] The qualification summons began on 8 October 2020 and will end on 29 March 2022. Uruguay ‘s Luis Suárez scored the foremost goal of the round-robin. This was the third gear time Suárez had opened scoring in the group ( after 2010 and 2014 ), equally well as the one-fourth consecutive time a Uruguayan musician had done so ( Martín Cáceres scored the first finish of the 2018 process ). [ 2 ]
format
On 24 January 2019, the CONMEBOL Council decided to maintain the same qualification structure used for the former six tournaments. The ten teams will play in a league of home-and-away round-robin matches. The fixtures were determined by a draw which was held on 17 December 2019, 10:00 PYST ( UTC−3 ), at the Bourbon Asunción Convention Hotel in Luque, Paraguay. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] originally, Brazil and Argentina were both to be drawn into either position 4 or 5 in the draw, frankincense ensuring that no team has to play both of them on any double matchday. [ 9 ] however, the decision was late reversed on 16 November 2019 by the CONMEBOL Council, making the draw completely open. [ 10 ] The CONMEBOL Council approved the practice of the television adjunct reviewer system for the qualifiers. [ 11 ]
Entrants
All 10 national teams from CONMEBOL entered qualification. bill : Bolded teams qualified for the World Cup .
Draw
position
Team
September 2020
FIFA World Rankings[12]
1
Uruguay
6
2
Colombia
10
3
Peru
22
4
Brazil
3
5
Venezuela
25
6
Bolivia
75
7
Paraguay
40
8
Argentina
9
9
Chile
17
10
Ecuador
64
schedule
The qualify matches are played on dates that fall within the FIFA International Match Calendar. [ 13 ] There are a sum of 18 matchdays. originally eight matchdays would be in 2020 and ten would be in 2021. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] On 12 March 2020, FIFA announced that matches on matchdays 1–2 ascribable to take topographic point in March 2020 were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the raw dates to be confirmed. [ 16 ] On 25 June 2020, FIFA announced that the inter-confederation play-offs, primitively scheduled to be played in March 2022, were moved to June 2022. [ 17 ] On 10 July 2020, FIFA announced that the CONMEBOL qualifiers in September 2020 were postponed, with the qualifiers starting in October 2020. CONMEBOL besides requested FIFA to include a replacement international window in January 2022 in holy order to complete the qualifiers in March 2022. [ 18 ] The proposal was approved by FIFA on 18 August 2020. [ 19 ] On 6 March 2021, FIFA announced that the March 2021 matches ( matchdays 5 and 6 ) were postponed ascribable to travel and quarantine restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 20 ] These matches were rescheduled to be played in September and October 2021 after FIFA accepted the CONMEBOL ‘s request to allow trio matchdays in both September and October external windows. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] [ 23 ] The matchday 5 was played between the matchdays 11–12 and the matchday 6 was played between the matchdays 9–10. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] [ 26 ]
Matchday
Date(s)
Matches
Revised
Previous Date
Original
Matchday 1
8–9 October 2020
N/A
26 March 2020
1 v 9, 2 v 5, 4 v 6, 7 v 3, 8 v 10
Matchday 2
13 October 2020
31 March 2020
3 v 4, 5 v 7, 6 v 8, 9 v 2, 10 v 1
Matchday 3
12–13 November 2020
3 September 2020
2 v 1, 4 v 5, 6 v 10, 8 v 7, 9 v 3
Matchday 4
17 November 2020
8 September 2020
1 v 4, 3 v 8, 5 v 9, 7 v 6, 10 v 2
Matchday 7
3–4 June 2021
12 November 2020
1 v 7, 3 v 2, 4 v 10, 6 v 5, 8 v 9
Matchday 8
8 June 2021
17 November 2020
2 v 8, 5 v 1, 7 v 4, 9 v 6, 10 v 3
Matchday 9
2 September 2021
25 March 2021
3 v 1, 5 v 8, 6 v 2, 9 v 4, 10 v 7
Matchday 6
5 September 2021
30 March 2021
13 October 2020
1 v 6, 3 v 5, 4 v 8, 7 v 2, 10 v 9
Matchday 10
9 September 2021
7 September 2021
30 March 2021
1 v 10, 2 v 9, 4 v 3, 7 v 5, 8 v 6
Matchday 11
7 October 2021
N/A
3 June 2021
1 v 2, 3 v 9, 5 v 4, 7 v 8, 10 v 6
Matchday 5
10 October 2021
25 March 2021
8 October 2020
2 v 4, 5 v 10, 6 v 3, 8 v 1, 9 v 7
Matchday 12
14 October 2021
12 October 2021
8 June 2021
2 v 10, 4 v 1, 6 v 7, 8 v 3, 9 v 5
Matchday 13
11 November 2021
N/A
2 September 2021
1 v 8, 3 v 6, 4 v 2, 7 v 9, 10 v 5
Matchday 14
16 November 2021
7 September 2021
2 v 7, 5 v 3, 6 v 1, 8 v 4, 9 v 10
Matchday 15
27 January 2022
7 October 2021
2 v 3, 5 v 6, 7 v 1, 9 v 8, 10 v 4
Matchday 16
1 February 2022
12 October 2021
1 v 5, 3 v 10, 4 v 7, 6 v 9, 8 v 2
Matchday 17
24 March 2022
11 November 2021
1 v 3, 2 v 6, 4 v 9, 7 v 10, 8 v 5
Matchday 18
29 March 2022
16 November 2021
3 v 7, 5 v 2, 6 v 4, 9 v 1, 10 v 8
Standings
Rules for classification:
( Q ) Qualified to the phase indicated Updated to match ( einsteinium ) played on 16 November 2021. informant : FIFA Rules for classification : reservation tiebreakers Qualified to the phase indicated
Matches
Matchday 1
Matchday 2
Matchday 3
Matchday 4
Matchday 7
Matchday 8
Matchday 9
Matchday 6
Matchday pushed back in revised agenda.
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Matchday 10
Matchday 11
Matchday 5
Matchday pushed back in revised schedule .
Matchday 12
Matchday 13
Matchday 14
Matchday 15
Matchday 16
Matchday 17
Matchday 18
Inter-confederation play-off
The inter-confederation play-off was determined by a draw hold on 26 November 2021. The fifth-placed team from CONMEBOL was drawn against the fifth-placed team from the AFC. [ 41 ] The play-off is scheduled to be played as a individual match in Qatar on 13 or 14 June 2022. [ 42 ]
Team 1
Score
Team 2
AFC Fourth Round winner
13–14 Jun
CONMEBOL 5th place
Qualified teams
The succeed teams from CONMEBOL have qualified for the final tournament .
- 1 Bold indicates champions for that class. Italic indicates hosts for that year .
Goalscorers
There have been 168 goals scored in 69 matches, for an average of 2.43 goals per match ( as of 16 November 2021 ). 9 goals
7 goals
6 goals
5 goals
4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal
1 own goal