AFC has confirmed the pathway for Asian teams to qualify for the 2026 World Cup:
https://www.the-afc.com/en/more/afc_...confirmed.html
https://www.the-afc.com/en/more/afc_...confirmed.html
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anyway, I wonder what fifa are going to in the groupstage with only 3 teams when this phenomena occurs: so they only play 2 games each, what if all games end up as a draw? lets say all 3 teams play 2 games, 1-1 result in all games.
who goes through, who is eliminated? are they going to do some bs fair play fewest cards or a lottery? or maybe a golden goal comeback for the last game in the group then so not all games ends up in draws?
they realy messed up the format with 3 teams in the group.....
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World Cup will become a less prestigious tournament - this is why I keep saying 2022 is the last real world cup (and it's such a shame we are going at it like this...)Originally posted by Keshwardoost View Post8 direct spots
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anyway, I wonder what fifa are going to in the groupstage with only 3 teams when this phenomena occurs: so they only play 2 games each, what if all games end up as a draw? lets say all 3 teams play 2 games, 1-1 result in all games.
who goes through, who is eliminated? are they going to do some bs fair play fewest cards or a lottery? or maybe a golden goal comeback for the last game in the group then so not all games ends up in draws?
they realy messed up the format with 3 teams in the group
I think in 2026 we will start hearing the talk of a new 12 team "champions" nations league or something
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yes i believe the same, the development with possible every 2 year world cup pararell the europa league thing will morph in to one thing in the end..Originally posted by DR Strangemoosh View Post
sad thing they changed it, shouldnt mess with what is a success like this.
for sure, this is the last real world cup......
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I know there has been expansions before but they didn’t need to mess with it. The tournament is beautiful as it is. Next World Cup we will end up having games like UAE v Burkina Faso.Comment
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FIFA wants to extract as much money as it can from the tournament. Their dream has been to have poor but sponsor heavy teams like UAE and China to make it. This will help them.
This will also continue to destroy international football. UEFA and the super
League clubs will be happy.
Just do the world nations league already with promotion and relegation.
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FIFA ranking is deceiving , Is Iran really the number one football nation in Asia?
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01/08/2022
Although Team Melli has been topping the FIFA Ranking in Asia for many months and years, the reality of the football results, performances of other Iranian teams, global reputation, management, and administration chaos tells a completely different story.
A close analysis of the above shows that Iranian football is lagging behind major Asian footballing nations in recent years. According to the FIFA ranking system for the Senior National Football teams, Iran’s team has often been at the top rank of Asian teams in the FIFA rankings in recent years. This ranking cannot be questioned because it has its own criteria and points are awarded for winning in each match, while each match has a factor based on importance and the position/rank of the opponents. So, it is quite scientific and the process v=cannot be faulted in any way. However, by examining various fields and indicators, including the superiority of Iranian football in the competition with important teams in the world at the club and junior levels football and the results obtained In the AFC Asian Cup, World Cup rounds, and Olympics, we find out that Iranian football is by far not the top nation in Asia as we have always been led to believe.
Now the question is why Iranian football has not been able to get results in important Asian competitions for many years. Why has a team that claims to be a contender in Asian football not achieved any important honor in the last 30 years in the club division and in the last 40 years at the national level?
1/ PERFORMANCE IN THE WORLD CUP
Performance of Asian teams in the World Cup (teams that advanced to the second round are highlighted in blue)
Teams Korea Rep Japan Saudi Arabia Iran Australia Korea DPR
Played 34 21 16 15 16 7
Won 6 5 3 2 2 1
Drawn 9 5 2 4 4 1
Lost 19 11 11 9 10 5
2/ PERFORMANCE IN THE OLYMPICS
46 years have passed since Iran’s last participation in the Olympics, and by the time the Paris Olympics begin, this longing will reach 48 years. For every Olympic qualifier, failures and lackluster results lead to elimination from the early stages of qualifiers. Iran’s Omid national team fails to advance to the Olympics tournament after tournament. The following is the list of Asian Teams that qualified for the Olympics since 1980.
1980 IRAQ SYRIA KUWAIT
1984 IRAQ SAUDI ARABIA QATAR
1988 IRAQ KOREA REP CHINA
1992 QATAR KOREA REP KUWAIT
1996 JAPAN KOREA REP SAUDI ARABIA
2000 JAPAN KOREA REP KUWAIT
2004 JAPAN KOREA REP IRAQ
2008 JAPAN KOREA REP AUSTRALIA
2012 JAPAN KOREA REP UAE
2016 JAPAN KOREA REP IRAQ
2020 JAPAN KOREA REP AUSTRALIA SAUDI ARABIA
3/ THE AFC ASIAN CUP
The longing for lifting the AFC Asian Cup trophy by Team Melli, which Iran won three times in a row before the revolution, is now 47 years old, and Iran has not won the title since the revolution. by the next edition of the Asian Cup, this longing will last half a century. This is despite the fact that since Iran’s last championship in the Asian Cup, Japan won 4, Saudi Arabia won 3, and Kuwait, Iraq, Australia, and Qatar have won the title once in Iran’s absence.
YEAR CHAMPION FINALIST THIRD
1980 KUWAIT KOREA REP IRAN
1984 SAUDI ARABIA CHINA KUWAIT
1988 SAUDI ARABIA KOREA REP IRAN
1992 JAPAN SAUDI ARABIA CHINA
1996 SAUDI ARABIA UAE IRAN
2000 JAPAN SAUDI ARABIA KOREA REP
2004 JAPAN CHINA IRAN
2007 IRAQ SAUDI ARABIA KOREA REP
2011 JAPAN AUSTRALIA KOREA REP
2015 AUSTRALIA KOREA REP UAE
2019 QATAR JAPAN IRAN & UAE
4/ Performance in the AFC Champions League
Pas won the Asian Club Cup in the 1992-1993 season. Three decades have passed since then. In this competition, Iranian club teams have never been able to win the championship title in its new format. The Asian Champions League has been held in a new format since 2002.
The number of championships of Asian teams since the start of the Champions League:
South Korea: 6 championships
Japan: 4 championships
Saudi Arabia: 4 championships
Australia: 1 championship
Iran: Zero
5/ THE NUMBER OF LEGIONNAIRES IN THE 5 PRESTIGIOUS LEAGUES OF THE WORLD
JAPAN KOREA DPR AUSTRALIA IRAN SAUDI ARABIA
Bundesliga 9 4 4 1 0
English Premier League: 2 2 1 1 0
La Liga 1 1 2 0 0
Serie A 2 0 0 0 0
14 7 7 2 0
AFC Asian Cup AFC Champions League Olympic Games World Cup
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For better experiance when reading, specially for the stats provided, read the article here.
https://www.teammelli.com/fifa-ranki...ation-in-asia/.....
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Yeah, that is how team melli keeps its perfect ranking in Asia playing really bad teams or not playing any friendlies, but once we play in the world cup the whole world will see the truth of really what a fu@ked up team we have. These Iranian football federation officials and hezbollahis are just waiting for the right moment to say I told you so we were bad in the first place when they are the ones who fu@ked it up for all of us.Originally posted by Keshwardoost View PostComment
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I would say yes, we are the best team/amongs the top in Asia at senior level, despite having the worst federation
but the article explains the dips we have, lets go back from 2000 to 2022, we have had many dips in rankings and organization, going year without coach at one pont,
CQ got us on track for success but now we are at levels of 2007-2009 or below from federation,
imagine if we actually had a proffessional and supporting federation, team would be top class!
cant blaim all on santions, no funds. atm iff makes so many basic mistakes and unproffesional approach.
we should be happy if they manage to get us to Qatar at the right month coming world cup..
one could also say PP reached finals many times now..
but counting the titles and so on, stats wise, it showes there is work that needs to be done, we shoudlnt fail at youth level and asia cup levels
sure we exited through rigged refs combined wjtb record of penalty shoot out exits in a row but still.. we cant be the ingilis of asia with the its not coming home asia cup..
we had one team that was fantastic at u17. should se what the coach did there, and the organization there, and implement the good stuff......
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is it confirmed it will all be at a neutral location? or will it be home and away games (4 games total). EDIT: I see now it is a single round competition. Yes we must finish top 2/6 because other teams will for sure try to sabotage usOriginally posted by Keshwardoost View Post
I can already see future scenario
Iran 0 Uzbek 0
Uzbek 5 Bahrain 0
Iran 2 Bahrain 0
uzbek to world cup, iran to another playoff round XDComment
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Home and away from what I understand, we go in from round 2. First time I read it I mistakely thought we were in from round one, mixed it up with fifa rankings as i read fast, and thought they have like africa qualiers heads up but in first round.. paniced. but read it again and could realax.Originally posted by Ostad_Goosfand View Post
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· Preliminary Joint Qualification Round 1: 22 teams, ranked 26 to 47, will be drawn to face off in a home and away format, where the 11 winners will progress to the Preliminary Joint Qualification Round 2.
· Preliminary Joint Qualification Round 2: 36 teams – teams ranked from 1 to 25 as well as the 11 winners from the first round – will be divided into nine groups of four teams each, who will each compete in a round robin, home and away format, where the top two teams from each group – 18 in total – will advance to the AFC Asian Qualifiers.
· AFC Asian Qualifiers: Subsequently, the 18 teams, who also qualify automatically for the AFC Asian Cup™ 2027, will be divided into three groups of six teams each, competing in a round robin, home and away format, with the top two teams from each group – six in total – qualifying directly to the FIFA World Cup 2026.
· Asian Playoff: The final round will consist of the third and fourth placed teams from all groups of the AFC Asian Qualifiers – six teams in total. The six teams will be drawn into two groups of three teams each, competing in a single round robin format.
· The two first placed teams from the Asian Playoff groups will advance to the FIFA World Cup 2026. The second-placed teams from both groups will compete in a playoff match to determine the side that will represent the AFC in the Intercontinental Playoff.
The AFC Asian Cup™ 2027 Qualifiers will continue from the Preliminary Joint Qualification Round 1 and Round 2, in parallel with the FIFA World Cup 2026 qualification competition:
· AFC Asian Cup™ Qualifiers Playoff: The 10 losing teams from the Preliminary Joint Qualification Round 1 will be drawn to compete in a home and away format, where the five winners will advance to the AFC Asian Cup™ Qualifiers Final Round.
· AFC Asian Cup™ Qualifiers Final Round: 24 teams in total – 1 best ranked losing team from the Preliminary Joint Qualification Round 1, 18 third and fourth placed teams from each group of the Preliminary Joint Qualification Round 2 and the five winners from the AFC Asian Cup™ Qualifiers Playoff – will be divided into six groups of four teams each, where only the first placed team of each group will qualify to the AFC Asian Cup™ 2027......
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yes it is very good there is no african playoff scenario, but if we do not get top 2/6 in the first round, then the final round before playoff is single round robin.Originally posted by Keshwardoost View Post
altho since there are 3 groups of 6 now, we can no longer be in a group like Korea/Iran/Australia so that is nice. a potential "difficult" group hypothetical for 2026
-Iran
-Saudi Arabia
-Oman
-Uzbekistan
-Jordan
-Vietnam
I guess if we do not finish top 2/6 with a group like this then some members will say we do not deserve to qualify but you never know what happens. luckily it is 10 games total so our consistency should come through by the end. if we finish 3/4, then we go to next round.
hypothetical for a final round of AFC playoff
Group of 3
-Iran
-UAE
-Iraq
If this round was home and away then I would say qualification is guaranteed, but it is only 2 games each. as per my above scenario, its not impossible to see us draw UAE 0-0, beat Iraq 1-0, but UAE beats Iraq 2-0 and goes through as first place, especially given the likelihood it will be at a single hosted city (probably Saudi, uae, or qatar). essentially both games will be must win for us. however, even if we finish 2nd out of the 3 teams, we get ANOTHER CHANCE, vs the other 2nd place team and then if we win that game, we do intercontinental playoff.
expansion from 4.5 to 8.3 spots has made it easier, but not AUTOMATIC. the main difference is that we dont get the dreaded scenario where we have 2 of the top 5 asian teams in a group with us. so if we fail to qualify it is truly on us.
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agree with you. Qualification for iran has not changed so much as youd think becuase the system has been changed so that it doesnt suit the stronger sides. The big difference will be for teams 5-10, those teams suddenly increase their chances major.Originally posted by Ostad_Goosfand View PostComment
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Team Melli need to have explosive players like Sayyadmanesh starting for TM, specially after this display showing that he can handle defensive work aswell. Real engine. Whoever the coach is coming wc, we need to let him start at the games before wc with azmoun and taremi backed by ebrahimi, ezzatollahi and amiri we can have a defence with moharrami kaanani, hosseini and jahanbakhsh as rb , would be awsome.
An alternative lineup is amiri as rb and arj as rw. Then make coachs favourite move at halftime and switch arj and amiris position. The question is if the team can play 4-3-3 without turnovers in dangerzones? I doubt it with lack of friendlies and poor qatar camp. The team has so much potential and alternatives and this makes it extra frustrating that they cant test this stuff. Have a hard time seing us playing 4-4-2 low defense with no pressure at wc. Dont think thats the optimal formation for the players and vs this opposition.
We should go for a 3-5-2 /4-3-3 if i have to choose. But the lack of time and poor preparations realy limits our alternatives to optimize the team.
On the other hand, since we do the dangerous turnovers already with current formation, I guess we could go for a change since there isnt much to loose. We might aswell go for surprising to opposition who expect 4-4-2 and have limited possibilities to scout us since we have few friendlies.. might aswell turn that weakness to our advantage as well as we can. TM actualy have some tools that makes it possible to play an explosive football, similar style to russia under hiidink if composed the right way.
We also have Mohebbi, Hardani, the young midfielder from Ipl that was called up last time and more explosive players like zahedi, ghaedi and alipour to fit the profile.
I do believe that we have alternatives popping up to solve our problems at rb, dm and playmaker positions. There is still hope and potential inside the team to put up a decent display at world cup if the coach and federation can organize a good final camp.
We also got an extra week since ipl takes a break if i understood it right. Would be awsome if they could give another week aswell. It shouldnt be impossible to make a win win deal with the clubs......
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