The Surprising Number of Teams Competing in This Year’s World Cup—You Won’t Believe Who Made the Cut!
The higher participant figure has seen four new debutants, the most at a World Cup since the six for Germany in 2006, in Cape Verde, Curacao, Jordan and Uzbekistan.
It also means a change to the previously tried and tested format as the additional 16 teams sees the group stage expanded to 12 brackets of four – listed from A to L.
A new way of working also carries a domino effect to the knockout stage with teams now starting their route to the final at the Round of 32 instead of the previous last 16.
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