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Twelfth Music World Cup qualification

Nth Music World Cup qualification

Tournament details
Dates	18 March 2023 – 26 March 2023
Teams	225 (from 5 confederations)

The Twelfth Music World Cup qualification was the qualifying process which decided the 27 teams that would join Australia, Brazil, Canada, England and the United States, who received an automatic spot, at the Twelfth Music World Cup.

The qualification process gives four automatic slots to Africa, six to the Americas, three to Asia, fifteen to Europe and one to Oceania, plus, one team of each continent is allowed to participate of the intercontinental play-off, which gives slots to three of them.

Qualified teams

Continent	Team	Classification Date (Order)	Participation			Best Performance
			Current	Consec.	Last
Africa	Congo DRC	25 March 2023 (27)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
	Mali	25 March 2023 (25)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
	Nigeria	25 March 2023 (26)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
	Senegal	26 March 2023 (31)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
	South Africa	24 March 2023 (18)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
Americas	Argentina	25 March 2023 (20)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
	Brazil	18 March 2023 (3)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
	Canada	18 March 2023 (4)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
	Chile	25 March 2023 (21)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
	Cuba	26 March 2023 (32)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
	Jamaica	25 March 2023 (19)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
	United States	17 March 2023 (1)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
Asia	Japan	25 March 2023 (22)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
	Lebanon	25 March 2023 (24)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
	South Korea	25 March 2023 (23)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
Europe	Belgium	23 March 2023 (8)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
	Denmark	25 March 2023 (29)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
	England	18 March 2023 (2)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
	Finland	24 March 2023 (14)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
	France	24 March 2023 (12)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
	Germany	23 March 2023 (10)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
	Iceland	25 March 2023 (28)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
	Ireland	24 March 2023 (15)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
	Italy	24 March 2023 (16)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
	Netherlands	24 March 2023 (13)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
	Norway	23 March 2023 (9)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
	Romania	23 March 2023 (11)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
	Scotland	23 March 2023 (7)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
	Spain	24 March 2023 (17)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
	Sweden	23 March 2023 (6)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
Oceania	Australia	18 March 2023 (5)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
	New Zealand	26 March 2023 (30)	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA

Confederation qualification

Africa

The african qualification happened in five rounds, the first one between just the ten lowest-populated countries in africa, with the remaining countries only joining in the second round.

First round

The first round of the African qualifications features the ten african countries with the lowest population in a singular match, with each winner moving to the second round.

Seeding and drawing

Pot 1 Higher population	Pot 2 Lower population
Djibouti	Cape Verde
Equatorial Guinea	Comoros
Eswatini	São Tomé and Príncipe
Guinea-Bissau	Seychelles
Mauritius	Western Sahara

Results of the draw + game results

Song	Pot 1 team	Score	Pot 2 team	Song
"Raga Kaan Ka'Eegtow" by Groupe RTD	Djibouti	8 – 7	Comoros	"Bandits are Doing Bad Deeds" by Comorian
"Ay, Corazón!" by Hijas del Sol	Equatorial Guinea	8+ – 8	Seychelles	"Afro-Sega" by Grace Barbe
"Little Black Dog" by Mo Kolours	Mauritius	7 – 9	Western Sahara	"Bord de Mer" by Group Doueh
"Mbombela" by Bholoja	Eswatini	8 – 8+	Cape Verde	"Sodade" by Cesária Évora
"Suur Di Nó Pubis" by Super Mama Djombo	Guinea-Bissau	8 – 7	São Tomé and Príncipe	"Carambola" by África Negra

Second round

The second round consists of twenty five matches envolving the five qualified countries from the first round plus all fourty-five other countries participating.

Seeding and drawing

In the first pot, all nine previously qualified countries were featured in, following that, the pots were filled by country population.

Pot 1 Previosuly qualified countries + Higher population			Pot 2 Lower population
Algeria	Kenya	Sudan	Benin	Gambia	Somalia
Angola	Madagascar	Tanzania	Botswana	Guinea	South Sudan
Burkina Faso	Malawi	Tunisia	Burundi	Guinea-Bissau	Togo
Cameroon	Mali	Uganda	Cape Verde	Lesotho	Western Sahara
Chad	Morocco	Zambia	Central African Republic	Liberia	Zimbabwe
Congo DRC	Mozambique		Congo-Brazzaville	Libya
Egypt	Niger		Djibouti	Mauritania
Ethiopia	Nigeria		Equatorial Guinea	Namibia
Ghana	Senegal		Eritrea	Rwanda
Ivory Coast	South Africa		Gabon	Sierra Leone

Results of the draw + game results

Song	Pot 1 team	Score	Pot 2 team	Song
"Sastanàqqàm" by Tinariwen	Mali	8 – 6	Guinea-Bissau	"Bandido Velho" by Allen Halloween
"Kuzola" by Pongo	Angola	8+ – 8	Gabon	"Epuguzu" by Pierre Akendengué
"Glow" by Alice Phoebe Lou	South Africa	7+ – 7	Benin	"Ces Petits Riens" by Angélique Kidjo
"Suicide" by Paul Ngozi	Zambia	8 – 7	Burundi	"Chalouper" by Gaël Faye
"Now a Daze" by Shad	Kenya	8+ – 8	Gambia	"Sama Yai" by Karantamba
"Spike Spiegel" by Saib	Morocco	7 – 8	Libya	"A Conflict Between Earth Mother and the Technogaia" by Kaizo Slumber
"Sbaart Ou Tal Adabi" by Cheb Hasni	Algeria	6 – 8	Sierra Leone	"Underground" by Mariama
"Nahoda" by Damily	Madagascar	7 – 8	Mauritania	"Ghlana" by Noura Mint Seymali
"The Other Black Dog" by Genesis Owusu	Ghana	10 – 8	Congo-Brazzaville	"Lamuka" by Bony Bikaye
"Co-Energy" by H-Sik	Ivory Coast	8 – 8+	Botswana	"Natural Journey" by Anita Zengeza
"Afrique Victime" by Mdou Moctar	Niger	10 – 8	Equatorial Guinea	"Boxeo" by Lion Sitte
"Stombali" by Ifriqiyya Electrique	Tunisia	7+ – 7	Eritrea	"Haki" by Asmara Allstars
"Smack That" by Akon	Senegal	10 – 8	Central African Republic	"Fading to Silence" by Boddhi Satva
"Tourapna" by Mounira Mitchala	Chad	7 – 8	Guinea	"Fote Mogoban" by Djeli Moussa Diawara
"Forever and Ever" by Demis Roussos	Egypt	8 – 8+	South Sudan	"Y Dah" by Gordon Koang
"A Melancholy Boogie" by Infinity Knives	Tanzania	9 – 7	Djibouti	"Honey Bee" by Yanna Momina
"Aké" by Blick Bassy	Cameroon	7 – 6	Lesotho	"Stop the War" by Sankomota
"U Gon Kill Me" by Navio	Uganda	6 – 8	Zimbabwe	"Simulation" by Tkay Maidza
"Warico" by Cheikh Lô	Burkina Faso	7 – 7+	Western Sahara	"Youth of the Nation" by El Wali
"Tchuheten Betsemu" by Ukandanz	Ethiopia	9 – 7	Togo	"Diamonds" by Yao Bobby
"Love Ain't Enough" by Jacob Banks	Nigeria	10 – 8	Liberia	"Treat" by Jesse Markin
"Care for Your Mother" by Jordan Mackampa	Congo DRC	9+ – 9	Namibia	"Shebeen 107" by Ongoma
"Mati" by Selma Uamusse	Mozambique	8+ – 8	Cape Verde	"Afeto" by Mayra Andrade
"Yellow Daffodils" by Malia	Malawi	8 – 10	Somalia	"Wavin' Flag" by K'naan
"Al Amal" by Noori & His Dorpa Band	Sudan	8 – 8+	Rwanda	"Where Did You Go Wrong, My Love" by The Good Ones

Third round

For the third round, all qualified teams were split for a last time in five pots, again with the same criterias as before, but now, they were divided in five groups of five.

Seeding and drawing

The pots kept with the same criteria of division as before.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5
Mali	Cameroon	Angola	Guinea	Botswana
Nigeria	Congo DRC	Kenya	Rwanda	Libya
Senegal	Ethiopia	Mozambique	Somalia	Mauritania
South Africa	Ghana	Niger	South Sudan	Sierra Leone
Zambia	Tunisia	Tanzania	Zimbabwe	Western Sahara

Results of the draw

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4	Group 5
Mali	South Africa	Zambia	Senegal	Nigeria
Ghana	Cameroon	Congo DRC	Tunisia	Ethiopia
Kenya	Mozambique	Angola	Niger	Tanzania
Somalia	South Sudan	Zimbabwe	Guinea	Rwanda
Western Sahara	Mauritania	Botswana	Sierra Leone	Libya

Game results

The games behaved as the following: The RateYourMusic charts would be filtered to only include albums from each country in the group, and them, random numbers would be raffled thirty times, each album giving one point to its parent country. Five additional raffles are made in case of a tie.

The best performing team of each group would be compared, with the overall best performing team being qualified directly to the world cup and the remaining four winners going to the fourth round.

Group 1

Team	Pts.
Mali	19
Ghana	6
Kenya	4
Somalia	1
Western Sahara	0

Group 2

Team	Pts.
South Africa	20
Mozambique	4
Cameroon	3
Mauritania	2
South Sudan	1

Group 3

Team	Pts.
Congo DRC	14
Zimbabwe	7
Angola	6
Zambia	3
Botswana	0

Group 4

Team	Pts.
Senegal	10
Guinea	6
Niger	6
Sierra Leone	5
Tunisia	3

Group 5

Team	Pts.
Nigeria	12
Ethiopia	10
Tanzania	5
Libya	2
Rwanda	1

Fourth round

For the fourth and final stage, the lesser perform winners of each group would play a short bracket, except the loser of each match goes to the final, with the winners going to the world cup and the loser of both matches going to the intercontinental play off.

	Semi-finals				Final
	Mali	8+
	Congo DRC	8
					Congo DRC	10+
					Senegal	10
	Senegal	8
	Nigeria	10

Semifinals

Mali	8+–8	Congo DRC
"Toumast Tincha" by Tinariwen		"Dilemme" by Lous and the Yakuza

Senegal	8–10	Nigeria
"Dunya Salam" by Baaba Maal		"Parade" by Jacob Banks

Final

Congo DRC	10+–10	Senegal
"Parachutes" by Jordan Mackampa		"Smack That" by Akon

Americas

The american qualifier happened in three rounds, the first one featuring only the thirty-two lowest populated nations and all the others joining for round two.

First round

The first round of the American qualifications features the thirty-two countries with the lowest population in a singular match, with each winner moving to the second round.

Seeding and drawing

Pot 1 Higher population	Pot 2 Lower population
Bahamas	American Virgin Islands
Barbados	Anguilla
Belize	Antigua and Barbuda
Costa Rica	Aruba
Curaçao	Bermuda
Guadeloupe	Bonaire
Guyana	British Virgin Islands
El Salvador	Cayman Islands
French Guiana	Dominica
Martinique	Grenada
Nicaragua	Montserrat
Panama	St. Kitts and Nevis
Paraguay	Saint Martin
St. Lucia	St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Suriname	Sint Maarten
Trinidad and Tobago	Turks and Caicos Islands

Results of the draw + game results

Song	Pot 1 team	Score	Pot 2 team	Song
"Guillotine" by Jorge Elbrecht	Costa Rica	8 – 6	Montserrat	"Hot-Hot-Hot" by Arrow
"Jardin D'Hiver" by Henri Salvador	French Guiana	6 – 7	Cayman Islands	"We're Not Alright" by Suckerbox
"Pedro Navaja" by Rubén Blades	Panama	7 – 8	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	"The Secret to Success" by Ossie Dellimore
"Vagamundo" by Altamirano	Paraguay	7 – 8	Dominica	"Stranger" by Julian Jay Savarin
"Electric Avenue" by Eddy Grant	Guyana	7+ – 7	British Virgin Islands	"Replay" by Iyaz
"Femmes Pays Douces" by Raphaël Toiné	Martinique	8 – 8+	Aruba	"Scarlet Skies" by I Saw the Deep
"Young Lies" by Poté	St. Lucia	8 – 7	Turks and Caicos Islands	"Sunset TCI" by Stanley Roots
"Ven el Mundo Arder" by Voltar	El Salvador	7 – 8	St. Kitts and Nevis	"Still Can't Feel a Thing" by Combination Lock
"Super Freaky Girl" by Nicki Minaj	Trinidad and Tobago	8 – 6	Grenada	"Short Little Shorts" by Mighty Sparrow
"Las Palé" by Feeling Kréyol	Guadeloupe	7 – 6	Bermuda	"London Rain" by Heather Nova
"Shut Up and Drive" by Rihanna	Barbados	10 – 7	Antigua and Barbuda	"Samba de Unity" by Roland Prince
"Back to the Island" by Baha Men	Bahamas	9+ – 9	Bonaire	"All I Need" by The Verbal Hologram
"Never So Lost" by Seirom	Suriname	3 – 6	Saint Martin	"Take Me Higher" by GrandblackF
"Mérua" by The Galifuna Collective	Belize	8+ – 8	Sint Maarten	"Island Livin" by Yung Pheenom
"Waiting for the Rain" by Kris Berry	Curaçao	8 – 7	Anguilla	"The Edge of the Darkness" by Bankie Banx
"Terremoto" by Alfonso Noel Lovo	Nicaragua	8 – 7	American Virgin Islands	"Near the Black Forest" by Vanessa Daou

Second round

The second round features the winners of the first round plus all the other american countries.

Seeding and drawing

The filling of the pots is based first on if the country has already participated of the cup or not, if so, it goes on the first pots with priority to the best performing countries, after that, the pots are filled based on the population of the countries.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Argentina	Bolivia	Bahamas	Aruba
Colombia	Chile	Barbados	Cayman Islands
Cuba	Dominican Republic	Belize	Curaçao
Haiti	Ecuador	Costa Rica	Dominica
Jamaica	Guatemala	Guadeloupe	St. Kitts and Nevis
Mexico	Honduras	Guyana	St. Lucia
Peru	Uruguay	Nicaragua	Saint Martin
Puerto Rico	Venezuela	Trinidad and Tobago	St. Vincent & the Grenadines

Results of the draw

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Argentina	Peru	Jamaica	Cuba
Ecuador	Venezuela	Honduras	Uruguay
Costa Rica	Trinidad and Tobago	Nicaragua	Barbados
Aruba	Dominica	St. Kitts and Nevis	Saint Martin
Group E	Group F	Group G	Group H
Haiti	Mexico	Colombia	Puerto Rico
Bolivia	Chile	Guatemala	Dominican Republic
Guadeloupe	Belize	Bahamas	Guyana
Cayman Islands	Curaçao	St. Lucia	St. Vincent & the Grenadines

Group stage

The games behaved as the following: The RateYourMusic charts would be filtered to only include albums from each country in the group, and them, random numbers would be raffled thirty times, each album giving one point to its parent country.

Only the best performing team of each group gets qualified to the third stage.

Group A

Team	Pts.
Argentina	23
Costa Rica	4
Ecuador	3
Aruba	0

Group B

Team	Pts.
Peru	15
Venezuela	11
Trinidad and Tobago	2
Dominica	1

Group C

Team	Pts.
Jamaica	25
Honduras	4
Nicaragua	1
St. Kitts and Nevis	0

Group D

Team	Pts.
Cuba	15
Uruguay	14
Barbados	1
Saint Martin	0

Group E

Team	Pts.
Bolivia	12
Guadeloupe	10
Haiti	7
Cayman Islands	1

Group F

Team	Pts.
Chile	18
Mexico	11
Belize	1
Curaçao	0

Group G

Team	Pts.
Colombia	23
Bahamas	4
Guatemala	2
St. Lucia	1

Group H

Team	Pts.
Puerto Rico	23
Dominican Republic	6
Guyana	1
St. Vincent & the Grenadines	0

Third round

In the third round, the same group proccess happens between all eight participants, this time, expanding from thirty to fifty picks, with the three best performing teams being qualified to the world cup and the fourth place moving to the intercontinental play off.

Team	Pts.
Jamaica	16
Argentina	11
Chile	8
Cuba	7
Colombia	5
Peru	2
Puerto Rico	1
Bolivia	0

Asia

The asian qualifier happened in four rounds, the first one only for the eighteen less populated nations participating, with all other nations joining form the second round onwards.

First round

The first round of the Asian qualifications features the eighteen asian countries with the lowest population in a singular match, with each winner moving to the second round.

Seeding and drawing

Pot 1 Higher population	Pot 2 Lower population
Kyrgyzstan	Bahrain
Laos	Bhutan
Lebanon	Brunei
Oman	East Timor
Palestine	Kuwait
Tajikistan	Maldives
Turkmenistan	Mongolia
United Arab Emirates	Qatar

Results of the draw + game results

Song	Pot 1 team	Score	Pot 2 team	Song
"Russian Woman" by Manizha	Tajikistan	8 – 6	East Timor	"Cidade Dili" by Tony Pereira
"Dernier Amour" by Van Hai	Laos	8 – 10	Mongolia	"Shoog Shoog" by The HU
"Empires" by Lamya	Oman	8+ – 8	Bahrain	"Olympia" by Flamingods
"Grime Vietnam" by Zamay	Kyrgyzstan	5 – 6	Bhutan	"Yak Legbi Ihadar" by Jigme Drukpa
"Falnukmel" by Julmud	Palestine	6 – 7	Kuwait	"Medieval Femme" by Fatima Al Qadiri
"Baikonur" by Gunesh	Turkmenistan	8 – 8+	Maldives	"Bakari" by Ahmed Nasheed
"The Sky Is Over" by Serj Tankian	Lebanon	9 – 7	Qatar	"Prevail" by Naser Mestarihi
"Clairvoyant" by Misogi	United Arab Emirates	7 – 7+	Brunei	"Seria" by Surfvampires

Second round

For the second round, all teams were split in six pots, again with the same criterias as before, but now, they were divided in six groups of six, where the two best performing teams of each group would be qualified to the third round.

Seeding and drawing

The filling of the pots is based first on if the country has already participated of the cup or not, if so, it goes on the first pots with priority to the best performing countries, after that, the pots are filled based on the population of the countries.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5	Pot 6
Cambodia	Bangladesh	Afghanistan	Malaysia	Jordan	Bhutan
China	Indonesia	Iran	Nepal	Kazakhstan	Brunei
India	Israel	Iraq	North Korea	Lebanon	Kuwait
Japan	Pakistan	Myanmar	Saudi Arabia	Sri Lanka	Maldives
Philippines	Singapore	Thailand	Taiwan	Syria	Mongolia
South Korea	Vietnam	Uzbekistan	Yemen	Tajikistan	Oman

Results of the draw

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4	Group 5	Group 6
Philippines	China	Japan	South Korea	Cambodia	India
Pakistan	Israel	Vietnam	Indonesia	Singapore	Bangladesh
Iran	Afghanistan	Thailand	Iraq	Uzbekistan	Myanmar
North Korea	Saudi Arabia	Malaysia	Nepal	Yemen	Taiwan
Lebanon	Jordan	Tajikistan	Sri Lanka	Syria	Kazakhstan
Oman	Maldives	Mongolia	Brunei	Bhutan	Kuwait

Group Stage

The games behaved as the following: The RateYourMusic charts would be filtered to only include albums from each country in the group, and them, random numbers would be raffled thirty five times, each album giving one point to its parent country.

Group 1

Team	Pts.
Lebanon	11
Iran	9
Philippines	9
Pakistan	5
North Korea	1
Oman	0

Group 2

Team	Pts.
China	14
Israel	7
Afghanistan	5
Saudi Arabia	5
Jordan	2
Maldives	2

Group 3

Team	Pts.
Japan	22
Vietnam	4
Malaysia	3
Mongolia	3
Thailand	2
Tajikistan	1

Group 4

Team	Pts.
South Korea	21
Indonesia	10
Sri Lanka	2
Iraq	1
Nepal	1
Brunei	0

Group 5

Team	Pts.
Singapore	14
Syria	9
Uzbekistan	5
Cambodia	3
Bhutan	2
Yemen	2

Group 6

Team	Pts.
Taiwan	13
India	11
Kazakhstan	7
Kuwait	2
Bangladesh	1
Myanmar	1

Third round

For the third round, the countries were divided in three groups of four, with the winner of each group being qualified to the world cup and the runner up being compared in the classification round.

Seeding and drawing

The filling of the pots is based first on if the country has already participated of the cup or not, if so, it goes on the first pots with priority to the best performing countries, after that, the pots are filled based on the population of the countries.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
India	China	Indonesia	Lebanon
Japan	Israel	Vietnam	Syria
South Korea	Singapore	Iran	Taiwan

Results of the draw

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3
Japan	South Korea	India
Israel	China	Singapore
Iran	Indonesia	Vietnam
Syria	Taiwan	Lebanon

Group 1

Team	Pts.
Japan	21
Israel	11
Iran	3
Syria	0

Group 2

Team	Pts.
South Korea	19
China	11
Indonesia	4
Taiwan	1

Group 3

Team	Pts.
Lebanon	12
Singapore	10
India	10
Vietnam	3

Classification

Finally, after all the groups are done, the runner ups are all compared based on their campaign in the second and third rounds, the overall best performing team moves to the intercontinental play off.

Team	Pts.
China	25
Singapore	24
Israel	18

Europe

The european qualifier happened in three rounds, the first one only for the ten less populated nations participating, with all other nations joining form the second round onwards.

First round

The first round of the european qualifications features the ten european countries with the lowest population in a singular match, with each winner moving to the second round.

Seeding and drawing

Pot 1 Higher population	Pot 2 Lower population
Andorra	Faroe Islands
Cyprus	Gibraltar
Luxembourg	Liechtenstein
Malta	Monaco
Montenegro	San Marino

Results of the draw + game results

Song	Pot 1 team	Score	Pot 2 team	Song
"Landlocked" by Capitol K	Malta	7 – 6	Monaco	"Forever Autumn" by Justin Hawyard
"One Fire" by Rome	Luxembourg	8 – 6	San Marino	"Grind" by Alessandro Arzilli
"Flying Sea Dragons" by Persefone	Andorra	7 – 8	Liechtenstein	"The Ghost of New Year's Eve" by WeltenBrand
"Sensitive" by Mick Karn	Cyprus	8 – 7	Faroe Islands	"Blood of Heroes" by Týr
"Plastik Fantastik" by Rambo Amadeus	Montenegro	7 – 7	Gibraltar	"The Free Electric Band" by Albert Hammond

Second round

For the second round, the countries were divided in twelve groups of four, with the winner of each group being qualified to the cup and the runner ups moving to the third round.

Seeding and drawing

The filling of the pots is based first on if the country has already participated of the cup or not, if so, it goes on the first pots with priority to the best performing countries, after that, the pots are filled based on the population of the countries.

Pot 1		Pot 2		Pot 3		Pot 4
Belgium	Ireland	Greece	Romania	Albania	Croatia	Armenia	Liechtenstein
Denmark	Italy	Hungary	Russia	Austria	Czech Republic	Cyprus	Lithuania
Finland	Norway	Netherlands	Spain	Azerbaijan	Georgia	Estonia	Luxembourg
France	Scotland	Northern Ireland	Switzerland	Belarus	Moldova	Gibraltar	Malta
Germany	Sweden	Poland	Turkey	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Serbia	Kosovo	North Macedonia
Iceland	Wales	Portugal	Ukraine	Bulgaria	Slovakia	Latvia	Slovenia

Results of the draw

Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4	Group 5	Group 6
Sweden	Scotland	Belgium	Norway	Germany	Wales
Poland	Ukraine	Switzerland	Russia	Greece	Romania
Bulgaria	Serbia	Georgia	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Czech Republic	Albania
North Macedonia	Latvia	Luxembourg	Armenia	Slovenia	Liechtenstein
Group 7	Group 8	Group 9	Group 10	Group 11	Group 12
France	Denmark	Finland	Ireland	Italy	Iceland
Northern Ireland	Netherlands	Hungary	Portugal	Turkey	Spain
Azerbaijan	Belarus	Slovakia	Austria	Croatia	Moldova
Malta	Kosovo	Estonia	Cyprus	Lithuania	Gibraltar

Group 1

Team	Pts
Sweden	17
Poland	12
Bulgaria	1
North Macedonia	0

Group 2

Team	Pts
Scotland	10
Serbia	9
Ukraine	8
Latvia	3

Group 3

Team	Pts
Belgium	18
Switzerland	11
Luxembourg	1
Georgia	0

Group 4

Team	Pts
Norway	13
Russia	9
Bosnia-Herzegovina	5
Armenia	2

Group 5

Team	Pts
Germany	21
Czech Republic	4
Greece	4
Slovenia	1

Group 6

Team	Pts
Romania	13
Wales	12
Albania	3
Liechtenstein	2

Group 7

Team	Pts
France	21
Malta	4
Northern Ireland	4
Azerbaijan	1

Group 8

Team	Pts
Netherlands	13
Denmark	11
Belarus	6
Kosovo	0

Group 9

Team	Pts
Finland	22
Hungary	7
Estonia	1
Slovakia	0

Group 10

Team	Pts
Ireland	11
Portugal	10
Austria	8
Cyprus	1

Group 11

Team	Pts
Italy	18
Turkey	10
Croatia	2
Lithuania	0

Group 12

Team	Pts
Spain	22
Iceland	8
Gibraltar	0
Moldova	0

Third round

For the third and final round, only the runner ups moved to it, they were put in four pots, again, organized by the same criteria, where they would go in one-way matches against each other, this would have two rounds, with six teams being eliminated in the first, and three more in the second. The three teams that won go to a qualification round

Seeding and drawing

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Denmark	Hungary	Poland	Czech Republic
Iceland	Portugal	Russia	Serbia
Wales	Switzerland	Turkey	Malta

Round 1

Song	Team	Score	Team	Song
"Pagan Poetry" by Björk	Iceland	10 – 6	Turkey	"Şımarık" by Tarkan
"Lembra-Me Um Sonho Lindo" by Fausto	Portugal	7+ – 7	Malta	"Serpent Bride" by Forsaken
"Cape of Our Hero" by Volbeat	Denmark	9+ – 9	Russia	"One Man's Prayer" by Regina Spektor
"The Race" by Yello	Switzerland	9+ – 9	Czech Republic	"Miami Vice Theme" by Jan Hammer
"Oh No!" by Marina	Wales	9 – 8	Poland	"Sadza" by Brodka
"Csele" by Suhov	Hungary	8 – 8+	Serbia	"Ti Si Sav Moj Bol" by Ekatarina Velika

Round 2

Song	Team	Score	Team	Song
"Hidden Streams" by The Vintage Caravan	Iceland	10 – 9	Portugal	"Drama" by Erika de Casier
"Special" by Mew	Denmark	9 – 8	Switzerland	"Umbra" by Waldskin
"Moderation" by Cate Le Bon	Wales	7 – 8	Serbia	"Daire" by Smak

Qualification round

In the qualification round, the winners of the third round matches had their campaign compared, the two best performing teams overall are qualified to the world cup and the worst performing one moves to the intercontinental play-off.

Team	Pld	W	D	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Iceland	2	2	0	20	15	5	6
Denmark	2	1	1	18	17	1	4
Serbia	2	1	1	16	15	1	4

Oceania

The oceanic qualifier was divided in two rounds, the first one featuring only the fourteen less populated countires participating, with the remaining countries only joining in the second round.

First round

The first round consisted of one-way matches between the countries, where the winner is qualified to the second round.

Seeding and drawing

Pot 1 Higher population	Pot 2 Lower population
American Samoa	Cook Islands
Kiribati	Nauru
Marshall Islands	Niue
Micronesia	Norfolk Island
Northern Mariana Islands	Tokelau
Palau	Tuvalu
Tonga	Wallis and Futuna

Results of the draw + game results

Song	Pot 1 team	Score	Pot 2 team	Song
"Vices" by Elijah L	Kiribati	8 – 7	Wallis and Futuna	"Pasikate" by Poli Lautoka
"Ha'anen Kasamiento" by Kacy Deleon Guerrero	Northern Mariana Islands	5 – 6	Niue	"Call Me" by 90sFlav
"Space Again" by Palm Highway Chase	Marshall Islands	W – O	Nauru	N/A
"Sand" by Nani Wolfgramm	Tonga	5 – 7	Tuvalu	Pakasoa by "Gutu Fatufatu"
"Thank You" by The Katinas	American Samoa	4 – 6	Cook Islands	"My Dearland Rarotonga" by Tara Makirere
"My World" by Ozeki	Micronesia	W – O	Norfolk Island	N/A
"Out of Place" by Kendall Titiml	Palau	7+ – 7	Tokelau	"E Lau Afiogare" by Vaniah Toloa

Second round

The second round consisted of a four team bracket, with the winner qualifying to the intercontinental play off. To determine the matches, the countries were placed in four pots of four countries, with the standard organization method.

Seeding and drawing

The filling of the pots is based first on if the country has already participated of the cup or not, if so, it goes on the first pots with priority to the best performing countries, after that, the pots are filled based on the population of the countries.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Fiji	New Caledonia	Guam	Cook Islands
New Zealand	Samoa	Kiribati	Niue
Papua New Guinea	Tahiti	Marshall Islands	Palau
Solomon Islands	Vanuatu	Micronesia	Tuvalu

Results of the draw

Pot 1 draws	Pot 2 draws	Pot 3 draws	Pot 4 draws
Fiji	Samoa	Guam	Palau
Papua New Guinea	New Caledonia	Marshall Islands	Cook Islands
New Zealand	Tahiti	Kiribati	Tuvalu
Solomon Islands	Vanuatu	Micronesia	Niue

Knockouts

	Round of 16				Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	Fiji	5
	Guam	6
					Guam	3
					Samoa	0
	Samoa	4
	Palau	0
									Guam	7
									Papua New Guinea	3
	Papua New Guinea	2
	Marshall Islands	0
					Papua New Guinea	5
					New Caledonia	0
	New Caledonia	2
	Cook Islands	0
													Guam	0
													New Zealand	4
	New Zealand	6
	Kiribati	0
					New Zealand	6
					Tahiti	0
	Tahiti	4
	Tuvalu	1
									New Zealand	5
									Solomon Islands	0			Third place
	Solomon Islands	7
	Micronesia	4
					Solomon Islands	3							Papua New Guinea	8
					Vanuatu	2							Solomon Islands	0
	Vanuatu	7
	Niue	1

Intercontinental play-off

The intercontinental play-off consists of one team of each continent that barely qualified to have a second chance in doing so, with that, all five teams are placed in a group where the three best performing teams get qualified to the world cup.

Participating teams

Continent	Team
Africa	Senegal
Americas	Cuba
Asia	China
Europe	Serbia
Oceania	New Zealand

Qualification

Unlike most of the group stages in the qualification, this group was played in the classic format of duels.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
New Zealand	4	3	1	0	34	29	5	10
Senegal	4	1	1	2	31	32	-1	4
Cuba	4	1	1	2	29	31	-2	4
Serbia	4	1	1	2	28	30	-2	4
China	4	0	4	0	29	29	0	4

Round 1
(Youssou N'dour - "7 Seconds") Senegal	9 – 7	Cuba (Silvio Rodriguez - "Quien Fuera")
(Cui Jian - "花房姑娘") China	7 – 7	Serbia (Pero Defformero - "Gastarbajter")
Round 2
(The Beths - "Future Me Hates Me") New Zealand	8 – 7	Senegal (Baaba Maal - "Fa Laay Fanaan")
(Gloria Estefan - "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You") Cuba	7 – 7	China (Default - "鸽哨")
(Šaban Bajramović - "Maki Maki") Serbia	7 – 9	New Zealand (Strawpeople - "Trick With a Knife")
Round 3
(Chinese Football - "Electronic Girl") China	8 – 8	Senegal (Fatou - "Gucci")
(Voltaire - "When You're Evil") Cuba	8 – 10	New Zealand (Lorde - "Green Light")
Round 4
(Idoli - "Kenozoik") Serbia	5 – 7	Cuba (Camila Cabello - "Never Be the Same")
(Kimbra - "Settle Down") New Zealand	7 – 7	China (Organ Tapes - "Di Qiu")
(Orchestra Baobab - "Mouhamadou Bamba") Senegal	7 – 9	Serbia (Darkwood Dub - "Dorcolac")