The national football team enters the "Group of Death"! In the same group as Japan, Australia and Saudi Arabia, the top two teams in the group directly qualified for the World Cup

National Business Daily

2024-06-27 16:37The official account of National Business Daily

Edited: Huang Sheng

On the afternoon of June 27, the draw ceremony for the top 18 of the Asian zone of the 2026 US-Canada-Mexico World Cup Qualifiers was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. China is in the same group as Indonesia, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Australia and Japan. The specific grouping is as follows:

Group A: North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Iran, Uzbekistan

Group B: Kuwait, Palestine, Oman, Jordan, Iraq, Republic of Korea

Group C: Indonesia, China, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Japan

Image source: FIFA Weibo

【Lottery Rules】

There are no restrictions on the lottery, and there is no "avoidance" problem. After the group draw begins, the draw will first start from the sixth bracket, and the first team drawn by the lottery guests will directly enter the "A6" position; The second team drawn will be placed in the "B6" position and the third team will be placed in the "C6" position.

After the sixth pot is drawn, and so on, until all the draws from the fifth pot to the first seeded team are drawn.

【Top 18 Rules】

The 18 teams will be divided into 3 groups of 6 teams each, playing home and away between September 2024 and June 2025.

In the end, the top two teams from each of the three groups directly qualified for the World Cup, and the third and fourth teams from each of the three groups entered the fourth stage.

In the fourth stage, these 6 teams will be divided into 2 groups of 3 teams each. The top team in the group will qualify for the World Cup, with the second-placed team competing for a place in the continental play-offs in November 2025.

As of press time, the topic "National Football Death Group" has topped the hot search list on Weibo, attracting widespread attention.

Thailand defeated Singapore 3-1 in the final round of Group C of the 2026 US-Canada-Mexico World Cup Asian Qualifiers in Bangkok on June 11.

In the end, the national football team and Thailand won the second place in the group by virtue of the advantages of the two sides' records, and successfully advanced to the top 18 by virtue of the advantages of the two sides' records.

According to Red Star News, in the Singapore team's 1-3 away defeat to the Thai team, the goalkeeper of the Singapore team, Sonny, can be called a "desperate Saburo". In this game, the Thai team had 35 shots on goal, 13 on target, and many of them had good chances, but they were saved by Sonny one by one. Although the Singapore team conceded 3 goals in this game, it just allowed the national football team to overwhelm the Thai team with their mutual relationship when the points, goal difference and number of goals were equal! If Sanido misses a goal, the national football team will miss the round of 18.

On June 11, 2024 local time, Bangkok, Thailand, in the 6th round of the second stage of the Asian qualifiers for the US-Canada-Mexico World Cup, Thailand 3-1 Singapore. Image source: Visual China

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