2022 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)
The South American section of the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification will act as qualifiers for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, to be held in Qatar, for national teams which are members of the South American Football Confederation. A total of 4.5 slots in the final tournament are available for CONMEBOL teams.
Format
On 24 January 2019, the CONMEBOL Council decided to maintain the same qualification structure used for the previous six tournaments. The ten teams will play in a league of home-and-away round-robin matches.The fixtures were determined by a draw which was held on 17 December 2019, 10:00 PYST, at the Bourbon Asunción Convention Hotel in Luque, Paraguay.
Originally, Brazil and Argentina were both to be drawn into either position 4 or 5 in the draw, thus ensuring that no team has to play both of them on any double matchday. However, the decision was later reversed on 16 November 2019 by the CONMEBOL Council, making the draw completely open.
The CONMEBOL Council approved the use of the video assistant referee system for the qualifiers.
Entrants
All 10 national teams from CONMEBOL entered qualification.| Draw position | Team |
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Schedule
The qualifying matches are played on dates that fall within the FIFA International Match Calendar. There are a total of 18 matchdays. Originally eight matchdays would be in 2020 and ten would be in 2021.On 12 March 2020, FIFA announced that matches on matchdays 1–2 due to take place in March 2020 were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the new dates to be confirmed.
On 25 June 2020, FIFA announced that the [|inter-confederation play-offs], originally scheduled to be played in March 2022, were moved to June 2022.
On 10 July 2020, FIFA announced that the CONMEBOL qualifiers in September 2020 were postponed, with the qualifiers starting in October 2020. CONMEBOL also requested FIFA to include a replacement international window in January 2022 in order to complete the qualifiers in March 2022.
| Year | Matchday | Date | Fixtures |
| 2020 | Matchday 1 | 8 October 2020 | 1 v 9, 2 v 5, 4 v 6, 7 v 3, 8 v 10 |
| 2020 | Matchday 2 | 13 October 2020 | 3 v 4, 5 v 7, 6 v 8, 9 v 2, 10 v 1 |
| 2020 | Matchday 3 | 12 November 2020 | 2 v 1, 4 v 5, 6 v 10, 8 v 7, 9 v 3 |
| 2020 | Matchday 4 | 17 November 2020 | 1 v 4, 3 v 8, 5 v 9, 7 v 6, 10 v 2 |
| 2021 | Matchday 5 | 25 March 2021 | 2 v 4, 5 v 10, 6 v 3, 8 v 1, 9 v 7 |
| 2021 | Matchday 6 | 30 March 2021 | 1 v 6, 3 v 5, 4 v 8, 7 v 2, 10 v 9 |
| 2021 | Matchday 7 | 3 June 2021 | 1 v 7, 3 v 2, 4 v 10, 6 v 5, 8 v 9 |
| 2021 | Matchday 8 | 8 June 2021 | 2 v 8, 5 v 1, 7 v 4, 9 v 6, 10 v 3 |
| 2021 | Matchday 9 | 2 September 2021 | 3 v 1, 5 v 8, 6 v 2, 9 v 4, 10 v 7 |
| 2021 | Matchday 10 | 7 September 2021 | 1 v 10, 2 v 9, 4 v 3, 7 v 5, 8 v 6 |
| 2021 | Matchday 11 | 7 October 2021 | 1 v 2, 3 v 9, 5 v 4, 7 v 8, 10 v 6 |
| 2021 | Matchday 12 | 12 October 2021 | 2 v 10, 4 v 1, 6 v 7, 8 v 3, 9 v 5 |
| 2021 | Matchday 13 | 11 November 2021 | 1 v 8, 3 v 6, 4 v 2, 7 v 9, 10 v 5 |
| 2021 | Matchday 14 | 16 November 2021 | 2 v 7, 5 v 3, 6 v 1, 8 v 4, 9 v 10 |
| 2022 | Matchday 15 | TBC January 2022 | 2 v 3, 5 v 6, 7 v 1, 9 v 8, 10 v 4 |
| 2022 | Matchday 16 | TBC January 2022 | 1 v 5, 3 v 10, 4 v 7, 6 v 9, 8 v 2 |
| 2022 | Matchday 17 | 24 March 2022 | 1 v 3, 2 v 6, 4 v 9, 7 v 10, 8 v 5 |
| 2022 | Matchday 18 | 29 March 2022 | 3 v 7, 5 v 2, 6 v 4, 9 v 1, 10 v 8 |