WC Qualifications (South America)

Tournament format

This is the total ranking based on all of the 3 qualification groups. Countries are sorted first on position in the group and then on points and goal difference. 4 countries qualify for the world championships. The best 1 countries in the group qualify directly and 6 countries will play in a home-and-away confrontation for the remaining places. The world cup host is automatically qualified.

Qualification standings round 1

CountryPositionPointsMPGSGA
1qualifiedar Argentina1166114
2playoffsve Venezuela1156103
3playoffsbr Brazil1126105
4playoffsgf French Guyana213663
5playoffsec Ecuador296108
6playoffssr Suriname27668
7playoffsuy Uruguay37667
8pe Peru37679
9py Paraguay36627
10cl Chile486910
11gy Guyana426210
12co Colombia41616
13bo Bolivia50000

Not all groups have the same number of teams so the results against the lowest team in the larger groups don't count for the order of teams in this list.