Who has qualified for the World Cup and who could miss out? England through but Portugal, Italy, Senegal and Egypt at risk

Qualification for the 2022 World Cup will be concluded this month and there’s still plenty to be worked out ahead of the showpiece tournament this winter.

The Qatar World Cup will kick-off later this year on November 21 and England have already booked their place.

The final draw for the World Cup group stage is scheduled to take place in Doha on April 1 but there’s a lot to be decided before the tournament can properly take shape.

Including the Three Lions and the host nation, 15 teams have confirmed their qualification for the competition but the full list of 32 participants won’t be confirmed until the end of March.

Several big names have made it already but a number of countries are struggling to get over the line in the qualifiers.

World Cup 2022: Qualified teams

The UEFA qualification group stages were wrapped up last November with England, Germany, Spain and France among the group winners.

Meanwhile, Brazil and Argentina have qualified from CONMEBOL and Iran and South Korea have made it from AFC.

The African, CONCACAF and Oceanic qualifiers have not be decided yet while we are also waiting on the rest of the European and South American teams.

The qualified teams so far are:

• Qatar (Host)
• England
• Belgium
• Croatia
• Denmark
• France
• Germany
• Serbia
• Spain
• Switzerland
• Netherlands
• Brazil
• Argentina
• Iran
• South Korea

World Cup 2022: Who could miss out?

Several high ranking countries are at risk of missing out on the upcoming World Cup.

The UEFA qualification process is down to the play-offs with the likes of Wales, Scotland, Portugal and Italy looking to make it through.

There will be 11 teams in the play-offs but only THREE will make it to the World Cup.

The play-off fixtures are:

• Portugal v Turkey
• Scotland v Ukraine
• Italy v North Macedonia
• Poland (Russia eliminated following Ukraine invasion)
• Sweden v Czech Republic
• Wales v Austria

In the CONMEBOL, big guns Chile and Colombia are at risk of missing out and have work to do in their final few games.

Peru are currently fifth in the qualification table and would go into a play-off.

Meanwhile, Costa Rica are struggling to make it out of the CONCACAF qualification and Panama hold the advantage over them in the play-off spot.

Australia could miss out on the World Cup as they are currently in the play-off places in the AFC.

There are still two games to go for that confederation and the Aussies will be looking to leapfrog either Saudi Arabia or Japan. 

The CAF qualifiers are down to their final round with five teams set to reach the World Cup.

There will be five matches held in late March to decide who will represent Africa in Qatar.

The play-off fixtures are:

• Egypt v Senegal
• Cameroon v Algeria
• Ghana v Nigeria
• DR Congo v Morocco
• Mali v Tunisia