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When will the national football team qualify for the 2022 World Cup without an expansion

Some time ago, FIFA president ivantino has been pushing for the 2022 World Cup to expand from 32 teams to 48 teams. But on Wednesday local time, FIFA officials abandoned the plan. In the 2022 Qatar world cup, there are still 32 teams.

Considering the effective hosting capacity of Qatar, ivantino originally hoped that Qatar's neighboring countries could undertake part of the competition after the expansion. However, judging from the current situation, the complicated political problems in the Middle East cannot be solved by FIFA.

For the failure of the expansion, FIFA officials gave such an explanation: "in the 2022 World Cup, the possibility of expanding to 48 teams no longer exists. The general view is that military expansion is a political and logistical challenge. '

FIFA will hold a general meeting in Paris on June 5, at which it will officially announce that Qatar will not expand its forces in the world cup. According to the original plan, the world cup will be expanded to 48 teams in 2026.

Under the current competition system, Asian teams have 4.5 places in Qatar world cup. After the early expansion, the number of Asian teams will reach 8.5, which will greatly enhance the possibility of the Chinese national football team returning to the world cup. But with the failure of the 2022 World Cup expansion, the hope of the national football team has become dim again.