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Tournament details | |
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Dates | 18 January 2023 – 14 June 2022[note 1] |
Teams | 206[note 2] (from 6 confederations) |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 865 |
Goals scored | 2,424 (2.8 per match) |
Attendance | 8,912,978 (10,304 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Ali Mabkhout (14 goals) |
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The 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification[note 3] was the qualifying process which decided the 31 teams that would join hosts Senegal, who received an automatic spot, at the 2024 FIFA World Cup.
Parallel tournaments were organised by FIFA's six confederations. Qualification started on 18 January 2023 with several matches of the AFC zone, the first being between Mongolia and Brunei, and ended on 14 June 2022 with an inter-confederation play-off between Costa Rica and New Zealand.[note 4] Mongolian player Norjmoogiin Tsedenbal netted the first goal, while the last one was scored by Joel Campbell of Costa Rica. In contrast to previous editions, there was no general preliminary draw, with confederations carrying out separate draws due to their differing timelines.[1][better source needed] The qualification process suffered numerous postponements from March 2020 onwards due to the COVID-19 pandemic.