A push to expand the men’s 2030 World Cup to 64 teams is “a bad idea,” UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin said on Thursday. Čeferin is a FIFA vice president who was part of a March 6 online meeting of ...

European (UEFA) 2026 World Cup qualification format First round (March 21-November 18, 2025): Twelve groups of 4-5 nations play round-robin, home-and-away. Group winners qualify for 2026 World Cup.

When are the UEFA World Cup qualifying playoffs? The playoffs take place in March 2026. The 16 teams involved will be split into four paths, with the overall winners of each path taking a place ...

More than the negative result, as Argentina qualified for the World Cup earlier in the day and then beat them convincingly, Brazil were defeated also for the way they played, as the team coached by ...

A proposal to expand the centennial World Cup to 64 teams is facing strong opposition from key soccer confederations.

On its tenth birthday, UEFA president and UEFA Foundation for Children chair Aleksander Čeferin assesses the organisation's ...

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has dismissed a proposal to expand the 2030 World Cup to 64 teams as a “bad idea”, saying it would damage both the tournament itself and Europe’s qualifying ...

The last and biggest — certainly the most-celebrated — confederation to begin qualifying for the 2026 World Cup is UEFA, and Europe’s nations have learned their groups for qualification. There are ...

A push to expand the men's 2030 World Cup to 64 teams is “a bad idea,” UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin said on Thursday. Čeferin is a FIFA vice president who was part of a March 6 online ...

A push to expand the men's 2030 World Cup to 64 teams is "a bad idea," UEFA president Aleksander Čeferin said on Thursday. Čeferin is a FIFA vice president who was part of a March 6 online ...