(Al -Arab) also expected the draw for the Asian qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup, our national team is faced to face again with the UAE team in the first group that also included the Omani team, whose matches will be held in Doha next October.
The third stage of the qualifiers gathered our team with the Emirates in the first group, and Al -Abyad won back and forth and came in third place while Al -Annabi finished fourth, and qualified together to the fourth stage
The lottery put the teams of Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Indonesia in the second group and its matches are held in Saudi Arabia, and it is worth noting that Saudi Arabia and Indonesia were also in one group in the third stage of the qualifiers.
The fourth stage matches will be held in the league system from one stage, and Al -Annabi begins his career in the qualifiers, October 8, to meet his Omani counterpart.
On the other hand, the Group Two matches begin to meet Saudi Arabia with Indonesia, in the second round of Iraq with Indonesia, and in the third round of Saudi Arabia with Iraq.
The first -place owner in each group qualifies directly to the finals, in order to join six Asian teams that have previously guaranteed their qualification, which are Iran, Uzbekistan, South Korea, Jordan, Japan and Australia.
As for the second -place holders in the two groups, they will meet in the confrontation of a two -leg matches that will be held on November 13 and 18, provided that the winner qualifies for the global attaché, which gives an additional qualification card to the World Cup.
Qatar is seeking to qualify for the World Cup through the qualifiers for the first time in its history, after it participated in the 2022 edition as the host country. She qualified for the attachment after finishing the third round of the qualifiers in fourth place in the first group.
As for the UAE, it aspires to the second appearance in its history in the World Cup after its first participation in 1990, and qualified for the attachment by third in the first group of the third round.
On the other hand, Oman aspires to achieve a first historical qualification to the World Cup, after she ended the third round in the fourth place in the second group.
For its part, Saudi Arabia is looking for its third successive and seventh participation in its history, after it was forced to go into the attachment after it came third in the third group of the third round.
Iraq seeks the second appearance after its only participation in 1986, and qualified for the attachment after its third in the second group of the third round.
Indonesia hopes to return to the World Cup after a long absence since its only participation in 1938 (name
Additional draw
An additional draw was made to determine the host of the first match in the supplement between the two sums of the two groups, where the second group hosts the first leg, as follows:
November 13
Go: Second Group 1 – Second Group Two
November 18
Second: The second group – the second group