The first Qatari football team enter the fourth stage (attachment) of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers in the United States, Mexico and Canada, with the aim of securing the finals seat for the first time through the qualifiers, after participating in the last version FIFA Qatar 2022 as the host.
The support is competing in the attachment with the Omani and Emirati teams after the lottery put the three teams in the first group hosted by Doha as of next Wednesday the eighth of this month and will continue until 14 of it, while the second group included the teams of Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Indonesia and its competitions are held in Saudi Arabia during the same period.
The six teams reached the attached after it came in the third and fourth places in the three groups of the third previous stage, which the six teams with the first and second places qualified directly to the World Cup, namely: South Korea, Jordan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Japan and Australia.
The attachment competitions will be held from one stage so that each team will play in each group two games, provided that the first -place holder in each group qualifies directly to the World Cup, while the two teams who won the second place in each group go to the first and leg matches, on November 13 and 18, to reach the winner of the total of the two confrontations the global attachment.
The Qatari team entered the direct preparation stage as soon as the three clubs (Al -Sadd, Al -Duhail and Al -Gharafa) ended the second round of the West stage of the AFC Champions League football, where the Spanish coach Julien Lopetegui hopes to reach the players to the entire end of the start.
According to the programming of the first group matches that will be held at Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, the Qatari team will start the journey by facing the Omani team on the 8th of this month, while the Omani and Emirati teams will meet on the 11th of the same month, provided that the competitions will be concluded by meeting the Qatari team with its Emirati counterpart on 14 of it.
The Qatari national team coach, Julien Lubghey, said in press statements that the preparations went optimally in order to play the attached matches in the best possible way in order to achieve the dream of reaching the World Cup.
He explained that thinking is to achieve the desired goal, although the task will not be easy for a strong team, which requires that all players be at the top of mental presence and to do everything they can to secure the qualification seat for the World Cup for the first time through the qualifiers.
“We are proud that the Qatari team holder of the previous two versions of the Asian Cup 2019 and 2023 in a row, but in football, the past does not help to achieve something in the present, and the only thing that will help us is to perform optimally and be able to compete and overcome the obstacle of the Omani and Emirati teams, thinking will not be in the past or in the future, but in the future, but in the future The current in which we are fighting a battle requires us to do our best to achieve the dream of reaching the upcoming World Cup finals 2026.
On the difficulties that the support suffers from .. The coach explained that the team faces the dilemma of injuries that caused some players, indicating that the technical staff worked during the last period to prepare all the available elements to catch up with the competition, without hiding some concern about some players.
The coach admitted that the recent results at the level of friendly preparatory matches were not good, but he stressed at the same time that the goal is to invest those matches to learn about the capabilities of all players through strong tests, as well as confronting the Russian team during the last stoppage period for the month of September, describing that experience as useful despite the difference in performance between the two halves of that match that was lost by four goals for a goal, while the team had faced the Bahraini team in the same period It ended in a tie with two goals.
The coach concluded his statements with a message he sent to the fans and appealed to them to stand behind the team and support him, considering that the presence of the fans extensively in the stands, will form the additional energy that pushes everyone towards making a double effort during the two fateful matches in the appendix.
The Qatari team is counting on the elements of Wazan, along the lines of Akram Afif, who was chosen as part of the final stature of three players, to compete for the title of the best player in Asia for the last season 2024 – 2025, along with Al -Moez Ali Al -Awl just from injury, and elements of experience such as Commander Hassan Al -Haydous and defender Boualam Khokhi and others.