UEFA to ask for 16 places at expanded 2026 World Cup

The game's governing body, FIFA, decided last month to add 16 teams at the finals with a first round of 16 groups of three. "...we think, to ask for 16 slots at least (for European teams), plus another condition that each European team is in a different group," Ceferin told a news conference after UEFA's executive committee meeting in Nyon, Switzerland. "Then if it's true that we are so good, that the quality is on our side, then I think that all 16 (European teams) can qualify in the second rou