AFC (Asia) – eight places (up from 4.5)
Caf (Africa) – nine places (up from 5)
Concacaf (North and Central America) – six places, of which three go to hosts (up from 3.5)
Conmebol (South America) – six places (up from 4.5)
OFC (Oceania) – one place (up from 0.5)
Uefa (Europe) – 16 places (up from 13)
In addition there will be two final spots available from a new World Cup play-off mini-tournament.
There will be some really crap teams from Asia and Concacaf regions added to a 48 team WC. As people have mentioned, total money grab from FIFA. Group stages are already watered down given this opening match. Sure they will be the big game here and there, but they will be few and far between.
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