World Cup expanding to 48 teams

>World Cup expanding to 48 teams
>4 more places for Asia
>4 more places for Africa
>only 3 more places for Europe

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More shit teams we'll get knocked out by, Great,

I don't know about Scotland or Wales or whatever backward fucks the English share a group of islands with but England is historically a great team and worthy of respect. A few years of being meh doesn't change history.

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>this entire post
>that flag
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>yfw Turkey, Romania and Serbia takes the spots

Scotlel btfo eternally

>turkey
>taking spot with arda "inshallah i wont get booed" turan, gökhan "i shot the sheriff" töre, emre ">dribble >get beaten" mor

Source on the place distribution?

Scotland had your chances in 70's and 80's

PS: Also 2014

Ass: a friend

Agreed

How many places for all the other continents?

Source? How do OFC, COMNEBOL and CONCACAF work?

Expecting AFC to get at least two more, three if they scrap the inter-confed playoff thing. Half of Asia is already pissed off Australia's taking "their" WC spot.

>4 more places for Asia

Literally why?

>Americans knowing squat about football

well they made the Euro shit, gotta do the same with the WC

cunts

The sport's growing there, they have a massive TV audience and the AFC is already such a logjam the minnows are trying to vote Australia back to the OFC for taking "their" WC spot.

You give someone in a high position money and get what you want in return

They should get rid of qualifying groups now, just have rankings (proper ones, like in Chess) and have the top ranked teams qualifying for the tournaments. This way big teams won't have to play against minnows, we won't have useless friendlies and we can have less international games a year.

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On current rankings, the (likely 9) AFC teams at the World Cup will be

Japan
Australia
Iran
Worst Korea
Uzbekistan
Saudi Arabia
UAE
China
Qatar

cant wait

Stay furious watching muscular AFC-GODs at the World Cup potatonigger

Any good teams?

>Saudi Arabia
>UAE
>Qatar

So Brazil will be taking 4 squads?

There aren't going to be nine AFC teams at the WC. Seven at most.

Change Qatar by Thailand considering 48 slots WC only shall be in 2026

>an Englishman is saying this
>while fielding another World Test XI in the cricket

lol no, both Africa and Asia will have 9 each. OFC (aka New Zealand) will also get a guaranteed spot. Pandering to the muscular Pacific Island nations is literally the purpose of this excercise

The allocation is not official yet. But reports from Zurich say it's likely to be:

Europe +3
Asia +4
Africa +4
Oceanic +1
North and Central America +1
South America +2

With the host nation making it 48 teams.

>(aka New Zealand) will also get a guaranteed spot

FIFA are following the money.

China will never miss out on a World Cup tournament ever again.

I miss Sepp.

>cricket

This is all done purely to get China to qualify, right?

I don't see the problem with this allocation. Watch euros if you want a Eurocentric tournament.

>mfw

>my grandfather is of English heritage

so there's going to be 16 new places. UEFA will get 3, CONMEBOL will probably get one.

That leaves 12 to be shared by AFC, CAF, OFC & CONCACAF

I can't see CONCACAF getting more than 1 maybe two because there qualification is already laughable.

So for me that leaves AFC & CAF with an extra 4 each and OFC with 1.

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Nobody from AFC would qualify for the world cup if you put them in CONCACAF

m-maybe brave Ryan Fraser and brave Oliver Burke can lead us to glory.

>China
What's the importance of them? I mean in a pan-pacific power-play kind of way.

CAF already gets 5. Are they like the Eastern Block of South Atlantic?

La Liga already said is against this and will make its best to avoid it. Probably most of the major european leagues will join.

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Hope you're shitposting amerilard. This expansion is motivated entirely by money.

>waaaah why don't we get all the places

UAE has the GOAT though
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Never said I agreed with the expansion. I was speaking purely about the allocation of spots.

Why shouldn't the confederations with the best teams get more spots?

Oh, I thought it had some global significance.

Yeah, maybe they should just make a euro tourn... oh yeah.

they are against it simply because this implies more matches, so players have higher risk to get injured

Shall there a... expansion draft?

>What's the importance of them? I mean in a pan-pacific power-play kind of way.

Literally the largest market on Earth.

Not to mention their president has vowed to invest massively in developing football over there so interest on the tournament will only skyrocket

They should just do what the brit said in one of the threads and use a legitimate ranking system so that they can basically eliminate all those qualifying matches against minnows. Not the BS FIFA ranking, but something more accurate.

Biggest TV audience in the world. Same with India if they ever decide to stop shitting in paddocks and take soccer seriously.

They have kabaddi

>group stage
>16 groups of 3

group stage is fun as hell, fuck them for ruining it

cant wait to see first 10-0

fuckong indians

This is their global significance

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Does it really matter? By 2026 the world will be under Putin's control.

There was a 10-1 in 1982

are you aware that during 2 years before the WC; there are group qualifications exactly for this?

>pan-pacific power-play
lol this actual means something to some people. amazing.

Guys, OFC qualifiers.

>Australia beats American Samoa 31-0

>Lel Salvador

>the new format will be 16 (SIXTEEN) groups of 3
>only one team gets eliminated
>knockoffs of 32 teams

Doesn't groups of 3 leave a lot of opportunity for countries to prearrange draws that'll suit both teams for qualifying?

terrible decision, the match quality was already pretty shit until at least the quarter finals and now will have to endure even more.

BLACKED

can't wait for Uganda to win WC 2018 after finishing 3rd in their group but qualifying on goal difference, and beating Libya, Pooland and Canada on their way to the finals.

Knockout rounds are almost always cagey shit games won in extra time or penalties.

The biggest problem with this revamp is the destruction of the group structures. The groups, with big teams facing off, and everyone still trying to figure each other out, is the best part of tournament football.

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lads, are they going to make it?

>tfw you will witness ak47 flag waving in the most watched event in the world

It starts in 2026.

>American """""education"""""
>tf
>tt

They should add more inter-continental playoffs.
Let 8 or even 16 African teams have a chance, provided they can beat a second class European.

>tf
>tt
One fluke win 50 years ago doesn't make them great.

$audi's are pissed at Australia for taking their spot

China? Aren't those bastards under Syria?

>tfw we will see Germany vs Syria in the World Cup

>more games=more venues
>2026 tlc wc confirmed
it's coming home lads, Canada can have the Butan vs Sudan and such

The real issue is the SIXTEEN groups of 3. 8 groups of 6 would be much better.

Are America going to host solely or with Mexico?

Fuck Scotland
Learn how to play

How can you justify giving Asia and Africa an extra 4 (four) places each?

That means more meaningless games
>5th game qatar vs mozambique to decide the worst team of the group

>On current rankings, the (likely 9) AFC teams at the World Cup will be
>Japan
>Australia
>Iran

literally the only "decent" teams and thats being modest

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Qatar "national" team is a joke
UAE less so.
Saudi Arabia is legit nationals.

What happened to Iraq? They won the Asian Cup in 2007 and seemed to be promising despite everything else going on.

They will be the the most expensive league in a few years. For some reason the CCP really really likes their futebol.

UAE did play in 1990 WC

>The groups, with big teams facing off, and everyone still trying to figure each other out, is the best part of tournament football.
Add another group stage then. I said it yesterday:
16 teams
Group stage 1: 4 groups of 4, top 2 in each group progress
Group stage 2: 2 groups of 4, top 2 in each group progress
Semi-finals
Final

Learn how to win a tournament properly.

>China

fucking buckets of money.

The whole goal is to get China and India in for the $$$

>A few years
They won their last title in 1966.

Can't wait to see Germany getting BTFO by Madagascar.

>India
>$$$
Pick one

really, really unfair on all the smaller nations in europe.

the likes of slovenia, scotland, bosnia, ireland, norway etc have such a tiny chance of qualifying now, despite being much better than every team in asia and OFC that are now guaranteed slots.

it's no longer a competition to see who is the best team in the world. it's a meme inclusive invitation tournament to all corners of the globe.