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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Does each confederation choose their own qualification guidelines or does FIFA?
If UEFA is responsible for the stupid format then they only have themselves to blame that some of their biggest nations didn't make it.
You'd think UEFA would rig it so that the biggest teams have a clearcut advantage but that hardly ever seems to be the case.
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It's determined by FIFA. They used the July 2015 rankings to seed the qualification.
Italy were ranked 12th in Europe. Lower than Austria!