UEFA Qualification

The European Zone of qualification for the 2014 FIFA World Cup will see 53 teams competing for 13 places at the finals in Brazil.  The teams were drawn into eight groups of six teams and one group of five, with the nine group winners qualifying directly into the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The eight best runners-up (determined by records against the first-, third-, fourth- and fifth-place teams in their groups to ensure balance between different groups) are drawn in two-legged play-offs that will determine the other four qualifying nations. After all the matches concluded, these are the group winners: Belgium, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, England, and Spain. These 9 countries qualified directly to the 2014 FIFA WORLD CUP.  There are still 4 berths. These are going to define in the Play-offs between 8 countries: Croatia, Sweden, Romania, Iceland, Portugal, Greece, Ukraine, and France.