1, registration qualification

Any FIFA member country (region) can send teams to sign up for this event.

2. preliminaries

There are only 32 places in the final stage of the World Cup, of which 1 place is occupied by the host, and the remaining 3 1 place is allocated to Europe, South America, Asia, Africa, North America and Oceania according to the comprehensive strength of each division. According to the number of places, each division will formulate the rules for the preliminaries, select the teams to register through the rules, and finally determine the list.

All registered teams can participate in the qualifiers, and the teams screened out in the qualifiers are the final places. It must be noted that sometimes the number of places allocated to the competition areas includes half, such as 2.5 and 4.5, which requires another confrontation between different competition areas.

For example, 0.5 team in Asian Division and 0.5 team in European Division, that is, Asian Division chooses 1 team and European Division chooses 1 team for play-offs. The winner enters the World Cup finals, and the loser misses the World Cup finals.

Competition system of the World Cup:

There are 64 matches in the World Cup, including 48 group matches, 8 finals in 1/8, 4 finals in 1/4, 2 semi-finals, 3-4 finals in 1 game, and 3 rd and 4 th runner-up finals in 1 game.

Thirty-two teams were divided into eight groups by drawing lots, and each group had four teams to compete. Each team has to play with the other three teams, and only played one game. Four teams in each group play six games in round robin mode, and each game lasts 90 minutes. The winning, flat and negative scores are 3, 1 and 0 respectively. The top two teams in each group advanced to the knockout 1/8 finals, and the *** 16 team was "top 16".

The team that scored more goals within 90 minutes (including stoppage time) in the knockout stage won. If the two sides can't decide the winner within 90 minutes (including overtime), the first half and the second half will play 15 minutes overtime respectively. In the overtime stage, if the two teams are still tied, it will be decided by the penalty of the players from both sides.

In principle, the penalty kick is that each side kicks five balls. If it is still a draw, both sides will play a ball and the winner will win. If there is still no tie, the penalty will continue and both sides will kick another ball until the tie is broken.