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UEFA Preliminary Draw tees up titanic tussles

Find out the results of the UEFA Preliminary Draw for the FIFA World Cup 26™, held at the Home of FIFA in Zurich.

The road to the FIFA World Cup 26™ has been mapped out for Europe’s 54 hopefuls at the UEFA Preliminary Draw in Zurich.

A record-high number of 16 places are up for grabs for UEFA representatives at the historic 48-team showpiece in Canada, Mexico and the USA.

Eight of the 12 sections will only have a confirmed Pot 1 team after March’s UEFA Nations League (UNL) quarter-finals, as outlined in more detail in the draw procedures.

Nonetheless, enthralling encounters are already guaranteed, with England-Serbia, Switzerland-Sweden and Belgium-Wales just a few of the mouth-watering matches in store.

FIFA World Cup 26™: UEFA Preliminary Draw results

Group A

Winner Italy-Germany (UNL QF4) Slovakia Northern Ireland Luxembourg

Group B

Switzerland Sweden Slovenia Kosovo

Group C

Defeated team Denmark-Portugal (UNL QF3) Greece Scotland Belarus

Group D

Winner Croatia-France (UNL QF2) Ukraine Iceland Azerbaijan

Group E

Winner Netherlands-Spain (UNL QF1) Türkiye Georgia Bulgaria

Group F

Winner Denmark-Portugal (UNL QF3) Hungary Republic of Ireland Armenia

Group G

Defeated team Netherlands-Spain (UNL QF1) Poland Finland Lithuania Malta

Group H

Austria Romania Bosnia and Herzegovina Cyprus San Marino

Group I

Defeated team Italy-Germany (UNL QF4) Norway Israel Estonia Moldova

Group J

Belgium Wales North Macedonia Kazakhstan Liechtenstein

Group K

England Serbia Albania Latvia Andorra

Group L

Defeated team Croatia-France (UNL QF2) Czechia Montenegro Faroe Islands Gibraltar

The UEFA qualifying group stage will begin in March 2025 and conclude in November 2025. It will follow a familiar format, with 12 groups of four or five teams, and the group winners securing a place at the FIFA World Cup™.

The four remaining places will then be decided in March 2026 in a 16-team UEFA play-off involving the 12 group-stage runners-up and the four best-ranked UEFA Nations League 2024-25 group winners that have neither qualified directly for the FIFA World Cup as group winners nor entered the play-offs already as group runners-up.

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