FIFA, Qatar finally make decision on alcohol sales at World Cup
Nigeria went out to Ghana on away goals in CAF's final playoff round, having qualified for the previous three World Cups and six out of the last seven. Egypt, Panama, Colombia, Peru, Iceland and Sweden, all of whom qualified for the 2018 World Cup, also did not qualify for the 2022 tournament. The knockout stage is a single-elimination tournament in which teams play each other in one-off matches, with extra time and penalty shootouts used to decide the winner if necessary. It begins with the round of 16 in which the winner of each group plays against the runner-up of another group. This is followed by the quarter-finals, the semi-finals, the third-place match (contested by the losing semi-finalists), and the final. FIFA's six continental confederations organise their own qualifying competitions. If such a game is still tied after extra time, it is then decided by a penalty shoot-out. The tournament has been decided by a one-off match on every occasion except 1950, when the to...