What are the World Cup 2022 groups?

A complete of 32 groups have been damaged down into eight teams with the highest two progressing to the knockouts.

The World Cup draw came about in Doha earlier this 12 months [Showkat Shafi/Al Jazeera]

The FIFA World Cup 2022 will kick off on November 20.

Hosts Qatar will tackle Ecuador within the opening recreation at Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor.

The 32 groups have been damaged down into eight teams with the highest two from every group qualifying for the knockouts.

The teams are decided by a posh FIFA course of. A rating system assigns the host nation and the seven strongest groups to completely different teams. To ensure a geographical unfold, FIFA defines six qualifying zones: Africa, Asia, Europe, North and Central America, and the Caribbean, Oceania and South America.

No two groups from the identical zone – besides Europe – could be in the identical group, whereas not more than two European groups could be in the identical group.

Listed below are the teams:

Group A

• Netherlands
• Senegal
• Ecuador
• Qatar

Group B

• England
• USA
• Iran
• Wales

Group C

• Argentina
• Mexico
• Poland
• Saudi Arabia

Group D

• France
• Denmark
• Tunisia
• Australia

Group E

• Spain
• Germany
• Japan
• Costa Rica

Group F

• Belgium
• Croatia
• Morocco
• Canada

Group G

• Brazil
• Switzerland
• Serbia
• Cameroon

Group H

• Portugal
• Ghana
• Uruguay
• South Korea