NEW YORK – The United States will open the 2022 World Cup standings on the road next June, with all likelihood of returning to Trinidad and Tobago, where they were eliminated from the 2018 tournament.
The Americans will close their 14 games in March 2022 in Costa Rica, where they have lost seven consecutive playoffs.
The United States qualified for seven consecutive World Cups before missing the 2018 tournament. The Americans are among the five nations with direct places in the last classification, known as the octagonal, united through Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras and Jamaica.
A highly remodeled team is led by star midfielder Christian Pulisic and can come with goalkeeper Zack Steffen, defenseman Sergio Dest, midfielders Weston McKennie, Tyler Adams and Gio Reyna, and ahead Josh Sargent.
The first 3 octagonal nations qualify for the 32-team tournament in Qatar that begins on November 21, 2022, the first World Cup has gone from its classic start to the end of May-June in accommodation to the summer warmth of the region. The fourth-place team qualified for a two-round intercontinental playoff series in June 2022.
In a draw Wednesday at the FIFA office in Zurich, the United States selected in a bowl to open the playoff winner between the Group A and F teams, whose most sensible nations are El Salvador and Trinidad and Tobago. The opening will take place around June 3, and the Americans will be home about 4 days later in front of the winner of the Group B and E qualifiers, whose most sensitive seed is Canada and Haiti.
Then, the United States had a difficult game in Honduras around June 11, before the final double window of June in the house against Jamaica.
When the ranking resumes around September 3, the United States will win the playoffs between Groups C and D, whose most sensitive seed is Curacao and Panama, then host of Costa Rica. The October Window has a house game opposite to Jamaica and a road game in Jamaica, and the November window has a house game opposite to A/F and a road game in B/E, which can mean a bloodless game in Canada.
The new FIFA window in late January 2022 has a home game opposite Honduras and a roadside game in Mexico that is likely to be located at the height of Estadio Azteca in Mexico City.
Four matches would be scheduled over a 13-day era if qualifying begins on June 3, the same opening date for Thursday’s matches in a window of foreign matches. Given the quick response times, it would not be unexpected if the double window opens a little earlier and/or closes a little later.
European club seasons are expected to end on the weekend of 22-23 May, with the exception of the Europa League final on 26 May and the Champions League final on 29 May. The windows.
CONCACAF used the hexagonal for the last qualifying circular for the World Cups from 1998 to 2018. This year’s hexagon is scheduled to begin next month and will come with the region’s six most sensitive nations, with Canada with little el Salvador. Canada would have been one of 30 groups vying for a place in the intercontinental playoffs.
But the coronavirus pandemic led CONCACAF to announce on July 27 a new format that placed the five most sensitive groups classified in the curse and gave the other 30 nations the chance to compete for 3 places in the final circular. Canada has led six groups ranked in first-run groups that play only one circular robin, with two games in October and November.
A: Antigua, El Salvador, Grenada, Montserrat, U.S. Virgin Islands
B: Aruba, Bermuda, Canada, Cayman Islands, Suriname
C: British Virgin Islands, Cuba, Curacao, Guatemala, San Vicente
D: Anguilla, Barbados, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Panama
E: Belize, Haiti, Nicaragua, Saint Lucia, Turks and Caicos Islands
F: Bahamas, Guyana, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago
The organization’s winners qualify for a two-moment circular in March that determines which organizations will sign up for the octagonal: Winner A plays F, B faces E and C face D.
Fox, an English rights holder in the United States, televised the sweepstakes on any of its networks or online. NBCUniversal’s Telemundo, a U.S. Spanish-language rights holder, broadcast it only in digital format.