Who Has Qualified for the 2022 World Cup?
World Cup qualifiers are one of the great joys of football. With three games to go, Germany have a clear opportunity to win the tournament.
The competition is only in its second year, and Germany’s 2018-19 campaign was a disappointment. Injuries and lack of depth made it a struggle for the side. Their qualifying campaign for 2018-19 finished with a point to spare.
On the face of it, this may seem like a wasted opportunity. After all, when is Germany ever going to qualify for the World Cup? A mere 18 years after Joachim Loew was appointed as the team’s manager, we’ve already qualified six times.
They have also reached every major tournament, most notably reaching the 2002 World Cup finals for the first time in their history.
After the tournament, they failed to qualify for Euro 2004. Germany have already qualified for every major tournament since their second World Cup appearance in 2006.
There will always be doubters, but the fact is the team have the best chance to qualify for the World Cup in 2022.
Who Qualified in 2018?
The current World Cup qualification system is relatively generous. It allows for the possibility of a qualifying tournament being divided up into two separate stages.
In the first stage, teams are seeded into pots so that every team has a chance of entering the competition in pot one. Every two-team group stage is played and teams face each other once, with the top two progressing to the second stage.
Germany played six qualifiers during the 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign.
From the 2018-19 qualification, six German players have qualified for the 2022 World Cup.
Qualifying for the World Cup in 2018 was split into two groups. The German side finished fourth in each group, and qualified for the next round after finishing top of Group A.
In the second group, Germany were drawn against Italy. They lost the first game 6-0 at home, the result meaning that the Italians qualified for the next round.
Germany’s six qualifiers for the 2018 World Cup had a combined total of 15 goals scored.
These are the six goals scored by the German side in qualifying for
