FIFA scrapped plans to expand the 2022 Qatar World Cup to 48 nations, deciding on Wednesday to stick with 32 countries because of the political and logistical complexities of using another Gulf nation.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino's hopes of expanding the Middle East's first World Cup in the region were stymied by the regional diplomatic crisis and the governing body's demands on host nations to adhere to its human and labour rights requirements.

That means the World Cup will not be expanded until 2026, with FIFA already having approved a format with 48 teams for that tournament in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

A meeting of the FIFA Council in March authorised Infantino to work with Qatar on seeing if it was feasible to use at least one more country in the region to accommodate an additional 16 matches, and present a proposal at meetings in June.

www.fifa.com

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2019/05/fifa-qatar-2022-world-cup-32-teams

All the allocated 16 places nko mynd44

Only 5 teams still from Africa will lalastically be in Qatar . Sure Dominique Republic will not be there.

My own concern is if we qualified, we shouldn't be grouped with argentina again..

Humchi:
My own concern is if we qualified, we shouldn't be grouped with argentina again..

Make we qualify first...No go dey easy, Africa football don wake up.

Logistically FIFA is not read, I guess with USA, Canada, Mexico bid it can work!

Qatar number one remains 31 nations.