{"id":82,"date":"2017-01-13T05:38:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T05:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.aarambhathemes.com\/super-blog-pro\/?p=82"},"modified":"2026-05-27T08:54:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T08:54:40","slug":"2018-fifa-world-cup-qualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.aarambhathemes.com\/super-blog-pro\/2018-fifa-world-cup-qualification\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 FIFA World Cup qualification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <b>2018 FIFA World Cup qualification<\/b> process will decide 31 of the 32 teams which will play in the <a title=\"2018 FIFA World Cup\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2018_FIFA_World_Cup\">2018 FIFA World Cup<\/a>, with the hosts <a title=\"Russia national football team\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russia_national_football_team\">Russia<\/a> qualifying automatically. All 210 remaining FIFA member associations are eligible to enter the <a title=\"FIFA World Cup qualification\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FIFA_World_Cup_qualification\">qualifying process<\/a>. For the first time in World Cup history, all national teams registered for the preliminary competition,\u00a0although suspensions excluded some teams from participating in qualification.<a title=\"Bhutan national football team\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bhutan_national_football_team\">Bhutan<\/a>, <a title=\"South Sudan national football team\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Sudan_national_football_team\">South Sudan<\/a>, <a title=\"Gibraltar national football team\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gibraltar_national_football_team\">Gibraltar<\/a> and <a title=\"Kosovo national football team\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kosovo_national_football_team\">Kosovo<\/a> made their FIFA World Cup qualification debuts.<\/p>\n<p>While the main qualifying draw took place at the Konstantinovsky Palace in <a title=\"Strelna\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Strelna\">Strelna<\/a>, <a title=\"Saint Petersburg\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint_Petersburg\">Saint Petersburg<\/a> on 25 July 2015,\u00a0a number of qualification matches were played before that.The first began in <a title=\"Dili\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dili\">Dili<\/a>, <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Timor-Leste\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Timor-Leste\">Timor-Leste<\/a> on 12 March 2015 as part of the <a title=\"2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (AFC)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2018_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_(AFC)\">AFC<\/a>&#8216;s qualification,\u00a0with East Timorese player <a title=\"Chiquito do Carmo\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chiquito_do_Carmo\">Chiquito do Carmo<\/a> scoring the first goal of qualification. Matches were also played in <a title=\"2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2018_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_(CONCACAF)\">CONCACAF<\/a> prior to the main draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification process will decide 31 of the 32 teams which will play in the 2018 FIFA World Cup, with the hosts Russia qualifying automatically. All 210 remaining FIFA member associations are eligible to enter the qualifying process. 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