2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)
The South American section of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification acted as qualifiers for the 2018 FIFA World Cup held in Russia, for national teams which are members of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL). A total of 4.5 slots (4 direct slots and 1 inter-confederation play-off slot) in the final tournament were available for CONMEBOL teams.[1]
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Dates | 8 October 2015 – 10 October 2017 |
Teams | 10 (from 1 confederation) |
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Matches played | 90 |
Goals scored | 242 (2.69 per match) |
Attendance | 3,365,010 (37,389 per match) |
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Two-time defending Copa América champions Chile did not qualify for 2018 FIFA World Cup after a 3–0 loss to Brazil on the final day of qualifying campaign, resulting in a sixth-place finish. As a result following intercontinental play-offs against the record five-time OFC Nations Cup champions New Zealand, Peru qualified for the World Cup for the first time since 1982.
Format
The qualification structure was the same as for the previous five tournaments. The ten teams played in a league of home-and-away round-robin matches. The top four teams qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, and the fifth-placed team advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs.
Unlike previous qualifying tournaments where the fixtures were pre-determined, the fixtures were determined by draw, which was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg, Russia.[2]
For scheduling reasons, Argentina and Brazil were automatically positioned as Teams 4 and 5 respectively to ensure that no team has to play both of them on any double matchday.[3][4] The remaining eight teams were drawn into one of the remaining eight positions from Teams 1 to 10 (except 4 and 5).
Entrants
All 10 national teams from CONMEBOL entered qualification.[5]
Note: Bolded teams qualified for the World Cup. Peru advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs and won.
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1 | 5 | |
2 | 9 | |
3 | 61 | |
4 | 1 | |
5 | 7 | |
6 | 31 | |
7 | 69 | |
8 | 67 | |
9 | 50 | |
10 | 20 |
Schedule
There were a total of 18 matchdays: four in 2015, eight in 2016, and six in 2017.[8]
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The inter-confederation play-offs were scheduled to be played between 6–14 November 2017.[9]
The fixtures for CONMEBOL qualification were decided based on the draw positions, as follows:
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Standings
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In league format, the ranking of teams in each group is based on the following criteria (regulations Articles 20.6 and 20.7):[10]
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1 | 18 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 41 | 11 | +30 | 41 | Qualification to 2018 FIFA World Cup | — | 2–2 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 5–0 | 3–1 | ||
2 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 32 | 20 | +12 | 31 | 1–4 | — | 0–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 4–2 | 3–0 | |||
3 | 18 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 19 | 16 | +3 | 28 | 1–1 | 1–0 | — | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 1–1 | |||
4 | 18 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 21 | 19 | +2 | 27 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 0–1 | — | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | |||
5 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 27 | 26 | +1 | 26 | Advance to inter-confederation play-offs | 0–2 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 1–1 | — | 3–4 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 | ||
6 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 26 | 27 | −1 | 26 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | — | 0–3 | 2–1 | 3–0[lower-alpha 1] | 3–1 | |||
7 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 19 | 25 | −6 | 24 | 2–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–4 | 2–1 | — | 2–1 | 2–1 | 0–1 | |||
8 | 18 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 26 | 29 | −3 | 20 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 2–2 | — | 2–0 | 3–0 | |||
9 | 18 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 16 | 38 | −22 | 14 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 2–3 | 0–3[lower-alpha 1] | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–2 | — | 4–2 | |||
10 | 18 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 19 | 35 | −16 | 12 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 1–4 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 5–0 | — |
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- FIFA awarded Peru and Chile 3–0 wins as a result of Bolivia fielding the ineligible player Nelson Cabrera. Originally Bolivia had defeated Peru 2–0 and drawn 0–0 with Chile. Nelson Cabrera had previously represented Paraguay and did not meet eligibility rules.[11]
Matches
Matchday 1
Colombia | 2–0 | |
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Chile | 2–0 | |
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Argentina | 0–2 | |
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Matchday 2
Ecuador | 2–0 | |
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Brazil | 3–1 | |
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Matchday 3
Ecuador | 2–1 | |
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Chile | 1–1 | |
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Argentina | 1–1 | |
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Matchday 4
Colombia | 0–1 | |
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Venezuela | 1–3 | |
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Uruguay | 3–0 | |
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Brazil | 3–0 | |
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Matchday 5
Ecuador | 2–2 | |
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Peru | 2–2 | |
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Matchday 6
Colombia | 3–1 | |
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Paraguay | 2–2 | |
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Matchday 7
Bolivia | 0–3 Awarded[note 2] | |
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Colombia | 2–0 | |
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Ecuador | 0–3 | |
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Chile | 3–0 Awarded[note 3] | |
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Matchday 9
Ecuador | 3–0 | |
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Brazil | 5–0 | |
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Peru | 2–2 | |
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Bolivia | 2–2 | |
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Chile | 2–1 | |
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Matchday 11
Colombia | 0–0 | |
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Paraguay | 1–4 | |
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Venezuela | 5–0 | |
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Matchday 12
Ecuador | 3–0 | |
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Chile | 3–1 | |
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Matchday 13
Colombia | 1–0 | |
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Argentina | 1–0 | |
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Venezuela | 2–2 | |
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Matchday 14
Chile | 3–1 | |
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Peru | 2–1 | |
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Matchday 15
Venezuela | 0–0 | |
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Chile | 0–3 | |
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Matchday 16
Colombia | 1–1 | |
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Ecuador | 1–2 | |
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Argentina | 1–1 | |
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Venezuela | 0–0 | |
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Colombia | 1–2 | |
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Matchday 18
Brazil | 3–0 | |
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Ecuador | 1–3 | |
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Inter-confederation play-offs
The draw for the inter-confederation play-offs was held as part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preliminary Draw on 25 July 2015, starting 18:00 MSK (UTC+3), at the Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, Saint Petersburg.[3] The fifth-placed team from CONMEBOL was drawn against the first-placed team from OFC, with the CONMEBOL team hosting the second leg.[17]
Team 1 | Agg. | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
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0–2 | 0–0 | 0–2 |
Qualified teams
The following five teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the final tournament.
Team | Qualified as | Qualified on | Previous appearances in FIFA World Cup1 |
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Winners | 28 March 2017 | 20 (all) (1930, 1934, 1938, 1950, 1954, 1958, 1962, 1966, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014) | |
Runners-up | 10 October 2017 | 12 (1930, 1950, 1954, 1962, 1966, 1970, 1974, 1986, 1990, 2002, 2010, 2014) | |
Third place | 10 October 2017 | 16 (1930, 1934, 1958, 1962, 1966, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014) | |
Fourth place | 10 October 2017 | 5 (1962, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2014) | |
OFC v CONMEBOL play-off winners | 15 November 2017 | 4 (1930, 1970, 1978, 1982) |
- 1 Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.
Goalscorers
- 10 goals
- 7 goals
- 6 goals
- 5 goals
- 4 goals
- 3 goals
- 2 goals
- 1 goal
Lucas Biglia Ramiro Funes Mori Gonzalo Higuaín Ezequiel Lavezzi Nicolás Otamendi Gilbert Álvarez Rudy Cardozo Alejandro Chumacero Yasmani Duk Ronald Raldes Dani Alves Lucas Lima Marcelo Miranda Roberto Firmino Felipe Gutiérrez Abel Aguilar Juan Cuadrado Teófilo Gutiérrez Yerry Mina Sebastián Pérez Macnelly Torres Gabriel Achilier Michael Arroyo Frickson Erazo Ángel Mena Arturo Mina Jefferson Montero Cristian Ramírez Antonio Valencia Júnior Alonso Lucas Barrios Édgar Benítez Víctor Cáceres Óscar Cardozo Paulo da Silva Richard Ortiz Cristian Riveros Ángel Romero Óscar Romero Antonio Sanabria Bruno Valdez André Carrillo Paolo Hurtado Christian Ramos Raúl Ruidíaz Renato Tapia Sebastián Coates Abel Hernández Nicolás Lodeiro Álvaro Pereira Carlos Sánchez Federico Valverde Richard Blanco Yangel Herrera Juanpi Jacobo Kouffati Jhon Murillo Mario Rondón Salomón Rondón Christian Santos
- 1 own goal
Marquinhos (playing against Colombia) Arturo Vidal (playing against Paraguay) David Ospina (playing against Peru) Édgar Benítez (playing against Peru) Gustavo Gómez (playing against Uruguay) Diego Godín (playing against Bolivia) Gastón Silva (playing against Bolivia) Rolf Feltscher (playing against Argentina)
Notes
- The match between Argentina and Brazil was originally scheduled to be played on 12 November 2015, 21:00 UTC−3, but was postponed to the following day due to bad weather.[12]
- FIFA awarded Peru a 3–0 win as a result of Bolivia fielding the ineligible player Nelson Cabrera, after Bolivia had defeated Peru 2–0. Nelson Cabrera had previously represented Paraguay and did not meet eligibility rules.[11]
- FIFA awarded Chile a 3–0 win as a result of Bolivia fielding the ineligible player Nelson Cabrera, after the match had finished 0–0. Nelson Cabrera had previously represented Paraguay and did not meet eligibility rules.[11]
- Chile were sanctioned by FIFA to play one home match (against Bolivia on 6 September 2016) away from Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos, Santiago due to homophobic chants by the team's fans, with a possible ban on a second match subject to a probation period of two years.[13] Since Chile committed another infringement during this period, a second match ban on playing at Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos will be served (against Venezuela on 28 March 2017).[14] Chile was sanctioned with a ban on playing at Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos for two further matches (against Paraguay on 31 August 2017 and against Ecuador on 5 October 2017) after similar incidents.[15]
- The match between Peru and Bolivia was originally scheduled to be played at the Estadio Nacional, but was moved to the Estadio Monumental "U" due to poor conditions of the pitch at the Estadio Nacional.[16]
References
- "Current allocation of FIFA World Cup™ confederation slots maintained". FIFA.com. 30 May 2015.
- "A unanimous decision: A draw will determine the classifications for the World Cup and CONMEBOL Tournaments". CONMEBOL.com. 23 January 2015.
- "Preliminary Draw procedures". FIFA.com. 9 July 2015. Retrieved 22 July 2015.
- "Draw Procedures – South American Zone" (PDF). FIFA.com.
- "Road to Russia with new milestone". FIFA.com. 15 January 2015.
- "Fifa World Cup 2018 qualifying group draw: As it happened". International Business Times. 25 July 2015.
- "FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking – October 2015 (CONMEBOL)". FIFA.com. Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 1 October 2015. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
- "South American teams know the roadmap to reach Russia-2018". CONMEBOL.com. 25 July 2015.
- "FIFA Calendar". FIFA.com.
- "Regulations – 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia" (PDF). FIFA.com.
- "Bolivia sanctioned for fielding ineligible player". FIFA.com. 1 November 2016.
- "Argentina v Brazil postponed due to wet weather". goal.com. 12 November 2015.
- "FIFA sanctions several football associations after discriminatory chants by fans". FIFA.com. 27 May 2016.
- "Several football associations sanctioned after discriminatory and unsporting conduct of fans". FIFA.com. 4 October 2016.
- "Several member associations sanctioned for incidents during FIFA World Cup qualifiers and friendlies". FIFA.com. 19 December 2016.
- "Perú vs Bolivia se jugará en el Estadio Monumental" (in Spanish). Peruvian Football Federation. 4 August 2017.
- "The Preliminary Draw results in full". FIFA.com. 25 July 2015.
External links
- Official FIFA World Cup website
- Qualifiers – South America, FIFA.com
- FIFA World Cup Russia 2018, CONMEBOL.com