Men's Football FIFA World Cup 2026

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  On 3/20/2025 at 6:20 PM, Thagard said:

What happened with the 29 minutes interruption in Iran Vs UAE 1st half?

Have they never played on Nowruz before or is this a start of a new tradition?

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it's probably the first time the NT plays a home match on Nowruz (technically 7 hours after the Nowruz) but no that had nothing to do with the accident. 

 

that was power failure or something like that.

 

and Iran scored the first goal on 45+27 minute  

 

btw this win 99.99% made Iran qualify for the World Cup.

[Thagard 62]

Saudi Arabia - China 0-0 at half time.

A re-enactment of the famous Battle of Talas River of 751, which was won by the Arabs, but without other consequences.

 

Interestingly, Saudis could win today too as China was reduced to 10 after the horrible attack of no.11 Lin on Kaddish, who had to be substituted due to head injury.

Edited Thursday at 07:25 PM by Thagard

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Asian AFCQ  MD 7 and standing

 

African CAFQ  MD 5 (partial) and standing

Edited Friday at 12:02 AM by Henry_Leon

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OFC semifinals

 

New Caledonia 3 : 0 Tahiti 

 

New Zealand 7 : 0 Fiji 

 

 

Final (March 24th)

 

New Caledonia vs New Zealand

 

-the winner go to FIFA WC2026, the runner-up will qualify for the Inter-Confederation Play-Offs

 

[hckošice 15,085]

after this very importnt win over VEN is basically one win from qualifying to the world cup now. It may be even the earliest qualification in ECU history and this even with the 3 points penalisation