bonny78 Posted September 22, 2019 Share Posted September 22, 2019 Some sort of world cup draw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrniaboc Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 8 hours ago, bonny78 said: Some sort of world cup draw Nah man. UEFA are meeting to decide the format for qualification. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted September 23, 2019 Share Posted September 23, 2019 Its only the UEFA Executive Committee meeting tomorrow, where they will confirm how the Nations League will be integrated into the World Cup Qualifiers, actual draw not for a while yet. Nations League draw is not until January/February, so imagine World Cup draw will be held off until next year also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infamous Posted September 24, 2019 Share Posted September 24, 2019 They are stalling so we continue to tumble down into Pot 4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonny78 Posted September 24, 2019 Author Share Posted September 24, 2019 Lets see what the big wigs say Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted September 24, 2019 Share Posted September 24, 2019 (edited) Talk UEFA are going to confirm an expansion of Pool A (with the 4 "relegated" teams not losing their place) and the 4 group winners making up the remainder of UEFA's 13 representatives at the World Cup. Looks like Germany, Poland, Iceland and Croatia will not be in Pool B after all then, and teams from Pool B who got promoted, will still go up, with Poll A expanded from 12 to 16 teams (basically to save Germany most people are pointing out). Edited September 24, 2019 by wanderer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottincarlisle Posted September 24, 2019 Share Posted September 24, 2019 4 hours ago, wanderer said: Looks like Germany, Poland, Iceland and Croatia will not be in Pool B after all then, and teams from Pool B who got promoted, will still go up, with Poll A expanded from 12 to 16 teams (basically to save Germany most people are pointing out). Will that not make hardly any teams in Pool B next time round ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted September 24, 2019 Share Posted September 24, 2019 From what I can gather, Pool B will be made up mainly of what made up the poll c teams and the mid table teams from current Pool B. Look like it will resemble something like this.... Pot 1 - Russia, Czech Rep, Austria and Wales pot 2 - Slovakia, Turkey, Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland Pot 3 - Scotland Pot 4 - Israel, Bulgaria and Hungary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjd1972 Posted September 24, 2019 Share Posted September 24, 2019 Seems a bit unfair that 4 World Cup places will be given to League A exclusively without any playoff. Qualifying for 2022 was going to a big ask anyway but if it is going to be group winners only then we have no chance, even a good campaign finishing second won’t be good enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted September 24, 2019 Share Posted September 24, 2019 Details and confirmation of seedlings https://www.uefa.com/uefanationsleague/news/newsid=2581669.html?iv=true Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceudmilefailte Posted September 24, 2019 Share Posted September 24, 2019 No suggest 9 minutes ago, wanderer said: Details and confirmation of seedlings https://www.uefa.com/uefanationsleague/news/newsid=2581669.html?iv=true No mention there of any world cup places up for grabs and if there was would they let Gibraltar, Faroe Islands, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Andorra, Malta or San Marino go as group 4 winners Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjd1972 Posted September 24, 2019 Share Posted September 24, 2019 13 minutes ago, ceudmilefailte said: No suggest No mention there of any world cup places up for grabs and if there was would they let Gibraltar, Faroe Islands, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Andorra, Malta or San Marino go as group 4 winners Will they be allowing a League D team a place in any future Euros via play offs? If so then getting relegated to League D might be good idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ceudmilefailte Posted September 24, 2019 Share Posted September 24, 2019 55 minutes ago, sjd1972 said: Will they be allowing a League D team a place in any future Euros via play offs? If so then getting relegated to League D might be good idea. Pretty sure they will do for the Euro's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tartan Chris Posted September 24, 2019 Share Posted September 24, 2019 2 hours ago, sjd1972 said: Seems a bit unfair that 4 World Cup places will be given to League A exclusively without any playoff. Qualifying for 2022 was going to a big ask anyway but if it is going to be group winners only then we have no chance, even a good campaign finishing second won’t be good enough. Surely will be some play offs? I agree though pretty much near impossible to make a WC nowadays, half the places on offer you get for euros (won't be that many more for 48 team WC for europe) and Scotland doing everything not to make Euro 2020. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infamous Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 From what i originally gathered the system was 1) First place in qualifying group -> WC (10 Teams) 2) Second place in WC Qualifying group -> Playoff (10 Teams) 3) Teams that had the highest two rankings in Nations league and did not make the play offs -> Play off (2 Teams) They would then combine 2 and 3 to have 12 Play off teams, then similair to the playoffs for Euro 2020 teams will be broken into 3 brackets of 4 with the winner of each bracket going to the World Cup. Is that how it will stay? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 6 hours ago, infamous said: From what i originally gathered the system was 1) First place in qualifying group -> WC (10 Teams) 2) Second place in WC Qualifying group -> Playoff (10 Teams) 3) Teams that had the highest two rankings in Nations league and did not make the play offs -> Play off (2 Teams) They would then combine 2 and 3 to have 12 Play off teams, then similair to the playoffs for Euro 2020 teams will be broken into 3 brackets of 4 with the winner of each bracket going to the World Cup. Is that how it will stay? UEFA only gets 13 places? I think UEFA were banking on FIFA's talk of WC expansion, but it has not came to be and they have no real idea how to combine the two. 9 Group winners, with 8 best runners up making the play off's the current system, so not a lot of room there for allowing 4 Nations League winners slipping in (granted winners of league A and B will most likely qualify or be in play off's.... unless someone has a period in group A like the Dutch over the last few years). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim Jim Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 For a couple of minutes I thought we'd been drawn against Wales, N.Ireland & Bulgaria for the 20/21 Nations League 😁 https://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/OfficialDocument/competitions/UNL/02/62/52/95/2625295_DOWNLOAD.pdf Says it's just "an illustration", but is it who we'd get based on current UEFA ranking? Are we 21st? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanderer Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 (edited) 13 minutes ago, Grim Jim said: For a couple of minutes I thought we'd been drawn against Wales, N.Ireland & Bulgaria for the 20/21 Nations League 😁 https://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/OfficialDocument/competitions/UNL/02/62/52/95/2625295_DOWNLOAD.pdf Says it's just "an illustration", but is it who we'd get based on current UEFA ranking? Are we 21st? Future NL draws are based on previous tournament (UEFA co-effiecent was only used for the first one) so pots and seedings are pretty much locked down now. Few folk thought the table UEFA released last night was the actual draw, as had someone text me last night asking "will we be effected same way the Welsh fans are for the Slovakia match?" 😂 Edited September 25, 2019 by wanderer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim Jim Posted September 25, 2019 Share Posted September 25, 2019 18 hours ago, scottincarlisle said: Will that not make hardly any teams in Pool B next time round ? Looks like runners up from our league C have been promoted as well as us. See link in my previous post. We could face the likes of Israel again instead of say Germany. Could still get Russia though 😧 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonny78 Posted September 25, 2019 Author Share Posted September 25, 2019 Give us England Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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