XPress for FIFA World Cup

The 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification process will decide 31 of the 32 teams which will play in the 2018 FIFA World Cup, with the hosts Russia qualifying automatically. All 210 remaining FIFA member associations are eligible to enter the qualifying process. For the first time in World Cup history, all national teams registered for the preliminary competition,[1] although due to suspensions not all teams participated in qualification.[2][3] Bhutan and South Sudan made their FIFA World Cup qualification debuts,[4][5] and Gibraltar and Kosovo are scheduled to make their debuts when European qualifying commences.