27 of the 32 countries that will participate in the 2022 Qatar World Cup finals, which will start in November this year, have been confirmed.



The World Cup final draw will take place on April 2nd at 1:00 am in Doha, Qatar.



The remaining 5 tickets go to the winners of the intercontinental playoffs in Asia and South America, North Central America and Oceania, the winners of the European playoffs, and two countries in North and Central America.



Now, football fans around the world are paying attention to how the draw for the finals is done.



The draw for the finals will be divided into 8 countries from Port 1 to Port 4 according to the FIFA World Rankings.



The purpose is to make the formation of Groups A to H relatively evenly, such that the host country and the top 7 countries in the FIFA rankings enter Port 1, and the next 8 countries enter Port 2.



In this regard, ESPN, a US sports media outlet, reported that "8 countries have been selected for Port 1".




According to this, Port 1 includes the host country Qatar (FIFA ranking 52nd), Belgium (1st), Brazil (2nd), France (3rd), Argentina (4th), England (5th), Spain (7th) , Portugal (8th place).



In Port 2, Denmark (9th), the Netherlands (10th), Germany (11th), Switzerland (14th), Croatia (15th) and Uruguay (16th) enter Mexico ( 12) and the United States (13th) are likely to join.



Port 3 includes Senegal (18th), Iran (21st), Japan (23rd), Morocco (24th), Serbia (25th), Poland (28th), Korea (29th), Canada (33rd) is likely to go in.



The last port 4 is filled with Tunisia (36th), Cameroon (38th), Ecuador (44th), Saudi Arabia (53th), and Ghana (61st). The winners of the Intercontinental Playoffs from Oceania and the winners of the European Playoffs will enter.



Korea cannot be in a group in Port 1 because Qatar is the same Asian country, and in Port 4, it must be in a different group from Asian countries such as Saudi Arabia.



In the end, you will be paired with one 'top seed' country in Port 1, a European, South American, or North and Central American country in Port 2, and a pair of Port 4 countries.



The 'top seeds' of Port 1 are expected to have difficult matches against any country, and in Port 2, particularly strong players such as Germany and the Netherlands are pointed out as opponents to avoid.



Germany met at the 2018 World Cup in Russia and Korea won 2-0, but it is difficult to guarantee the same result as 4 years ago if they are in the same group again this time.



The qualifiers for North, Central and South America will end within this month, and the remaining matches between the intercontinental playoffs and the European playoffs will not be announced until June.



(Photo = Provided by the Korea Football Association, FIFA Twitter, Yonhap News)