2022 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL) — 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifying (CONMEBOL)
CONMEBOL's round-robin qualification for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar allocated 4.5 slots to South American nations across an 18-month process.
Key Facts
- Slots available
- 4 direct + 1 inter-confederation play-off
- Process start date
- 8 October 2020
- Process end date
- 29 March 2022
- First goal scorer
- Luis Suárez (Uruguay)
- Times Suárez opened qualifying scoring
- 3 (2010, 2014, 2022)
- Consecutive Uruguayan first-goal openers
- 4 (including Martín Cáceres in 2018)
By the Numbers
Location
Cause → Event → Consequence
Following FIFA's allocation of qualifying berths to continental confederations for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, CONMEBOL was granted 4.5 places for its ten member nations, necessitating a structured qualifying competition among South American football federations.
All ten CONMEBOL member nations competed in a home-and-away round-robin format between 8 October 2020 and 29 March 2022. Uruguay's Luis Suárez scored the first goal of the qualifying round, marking the third time he had done so personally and the fourth consecutive qualifying cycle opened by a Uruguayan player.
The qualification process determined which South American nations secured direct berths and which entered the inter-confederation play-off for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, shaping the continent's representation at the tournament.