World Sports: Spain is in the first tier, and the World Cup group stage will avoid other teams and the host country in the first tier

"World Sports News" reported that Spain is in the first tier and will avoid the host country and other first tier teams in the World Cup group stage.

After confirming its qualification to the World Cup, Spain's next step is to understand the three opponents it will face in the group stage in 16 days. By then, the 72 matches of the World Cup group stage will be finalized. In this new version of the World Cup with 48 participating teams, each of the 12 groups will play 6 games.

Among the teams participating in the World Cup finals, 6 teams will qualify through the play-offs in March next year, of which 4 are from the European play-offs and 2 are from play-offs involving teams from other continents. However, during the draw ceremony, there will be 6 draws belonging to the winners of the above-mentioned play-offs, so some teams will not know all their opponents when the draw is drawn.

Spain may face this situation, but the team has already determined in advance that it will be included in the seeding pool, so it also knows in advance the 11 teams that will not meet in the group stage. The draw pool is determined based on FIFA rankings, which means Spain will avoid Argentina, France, England, Brazil, Portugal, Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, as well as co-hosts the United States, Mexico and Canada.