Concacaf President assesses possible changes in qualifying format for the Qatar World Cup

Victor Montagliani, president of Concacaf, acknowledged that the qualification format for the Qatar 2022 World Cup could be subject to change due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and also mentioned the possibility that the format could not be hexagonal.

FIFA has already postponed the date of March and June that for the Concacaf area were decisive in defining the six qualified for Hexagonal.

El Salvador is in sixth place and disputes the last place with Canada, which it surpasses in the ranking with a score of 1,346 against 1,332.

FIFA formed a working group to study the possibility of changing international match windows for World Cup qualifiers and other competitions.

On the point, Montagliani said during a conference call that Concacaf discusses “the odds, if this schedule is going to change, how it is going to change and how that will affect the format of the World Cup qualification, which is likely to happen. We have more questions. what answers. “

The classification format establishes that in the Concacaf Hexagonal, three teams would win direct positions for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Fourth place would go into a playoff against the winner of a regional competition.

The other teams that do not contest the Hexagonal will play an alternative tie to determine which team will go to a playoff against fourth place in the final Concacaf Hexagonal.

For Montagliani for now we have to analyze the situation. “We may have to look at how to reformat what this looks like. I don’t know if it’s (hex) format or some other shape. We just don’t know what this will look like until we know what the FIFA calendar will look like,” he said.

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