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These are the World Cup football qualification groups and the standings in South America. In the CONMEBOL zone, ten countries compete for six tickets to participate in the 2026 FIFA World Cup final round. In the qualification phase in South America, there is one main round with one group. View the standings and the program in this group, with all fixtures until September 9, 2025.

The numbers 1 to 6 qualify directly for the final tournament in 2026. The number 7 in the final standings of the South American World Cup qualification participates in the Intercontinental FIFA play-offs. That national team can be the last South American nation belonging to the 48 teams competing for the football world title, summer 2026 in North America.

Standings World Cup football qualifying South America

#GROUP CONMEBOL | MAIN ROUND
2026 WORLD CUP FOOTBALL QUALIFIERS
PWDLPTSGD
1Argentina6501158-2
2Uruguay64111313-5
3Colombia6330126-3
4Venezuela623196-3
5Ecuador (3 pnts. ded.)632185-3
6Brazil621378-7
7Paraguay612351-3
8Chile612353-7
9Bolivia610534-14
10Peru602421-8

The CONMEBOL FIFA World Cup qualifying Main Round consists of eighteen matchdays. The ten countries that are part of this FIFA continent all play in the same group. Each country plays once at home and once away against each of the other nine countries. This double round-robin schedule has a total of ninety games. The numbers one through six qualify directly. The country that finishes as number seven in this single CONMEBOL qualifying round will be part of the FIFA intercontinental play-offs.

Fixtures South America Main Round

MATCH PERIOD 7TIME (local)MATCH
09-’2400:00Uruguay – Paraguay
09-’2400:00Peru – Colombia
09-’2400:00Brazil – Ecuador
09-’2400:00Bolivia – Venezuela
09-’2400:00Argentina – Chile
MATCH PERIOD 8TIME (local)MATCH
09-’2400:00Colombia – Argentina
09-’2400:00Venezuela – Uruguay
09-’2400:00Paraguay – Brazil
09-’2400:00Chile – Bolivia
09-’2400:00Ecuador – Peru
MATCH PERIOD 9TIME (local)MATCH
10-’2400:00Peru – Uruguay
10-’2400:00Venezuela – Argentina
10-’2400:00Bolivia – Colombia
10-’2400:00Chile – Brazil
10-’2400:00Ecuador – Paraguay
MATCH PERIOD 10TIME (local)MATCH
10-’2400:00Uruguay – Ecuador
10-’2400:00Colombia – Chile
10-’2400:00Brazil – Peru
10-’2400:00Paraguay – Venezuela
10-’2400:00Argentina – Bolivia
MATCH PERIOD 11TIME (local)MATCH
11-’2400:00Uruguay – Colombia
11-’2400:00Peru – Chile
11-’2400:00Venezuela – Brazil
11-’2400:00Paraguay – Argentina
11-’2400:00Ecuador – Bolivia
MATCH PERIOD 12TIME (local)MATCH
11-’2400:00Colombia – Ecuador
11-’2400:00Brazil – Uruguay
11-’2400:00Bolivia – Paraguay
11-’2400:00Argentina – Peru
11-’2400:00Chile – Venezuela
MATCH PERIOD 13TIME (local)MATCH
03-’2500:00Uruguay – Argentina
03-’2500:00Peru – Bolivia
03-’2500:00Brazil – Colombia
03-’2500:00Paraguay – Chile
03-’2500:00Ecuador – Venezuela
MATCH PERIOD 14TIME (local)MATCH
03-’2500:00Colombia – Paraguay
03-’2500:00Venezuela – Peru
03-’2500:00Bolivia – Uruguay
03-’2500:00Argentina – Brazil
03-’2500:00Chile – Ecuador
MATCH PERIOD 15TIME (local)MATCH
06-’2500:00Colombia – Peru
06-’2500:00Venezuela – Bolivia
06-’2500:00Paraguay – Uruguay
06-’2500:00Chile – Argentina
06-’2500:00Ecuador – Brazil
MATCH PERIOD 16TIME (local)MATCH
06-’2500:00Uruguay – Venezuela
06-’2500:00Peru – Ecuador
06-’2500:00Brazil – Paraguay
06-’2500:00Bolivia – Chile
06-’2500:00Argentina – Colombia
MATCH PERIOD 17TIME (local)MATCH
09-’2500:00Uruguay – Peru
09-’2500:00Colombia – Bolivia
09-’2500:00Brazil – Chile
09-’2500:00Paraguay – Ecuador
09-’2500:00Argentina – Venezuela
MATCH PERIOD 18TIME (local)MATCH
09-’2500:00Peru – Paraguay
09-’2500:00Venezuela – Colombia
09-’2500:00Bolivia – Brazil
09-’2500:00Chile – Uruguay
09-’2500:00Ecuador – Argentina
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more info on the South American qualification: results, teams, and fixtures from all qualifying rounds.

  • Argentina
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Ecuador
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Uruguay
  • Venezuela
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