World Cup 2018 News: Qualification Draw Gives United States Solid Group, Qualifiers Start Later In 2015

Jul 27, 2015 09:14 AM EDT

The World Cup 2018 tournament will be in Russia and the qualification draw is now set for the event after picks this weekend and qualifiers will start later in 2015 for CONCACAF, UEFA and CONMEBOL teams and the United States has a solid group and should get through without any issues.

The CONCACAF groups have Gold Cup winners Mexico in Group A with Honduras, Curacao/El Salvador and Canada/Belize, while Group B has Costa Rica, Panama, Grenada/Haiti and Jamaica/Nicaragua. Group C has the United States and Trinidad & Tobago, St. Vincent & the Grenadines/Aruba and Antigua & Barbuda/Guatemala. Those groups will be filled out by playoff matches.

Here are the UEFA groups, per Pro Soccer Talk:

Group A: Netherlands, France, Sweden, Bulgaria, Belarus, Luxembourg

Group B: Portugal, Switzerland, Hungary, Faroe Islands, Latvia, Andorra

Group C: Germany, Czech Republic, Northern Ireland, Norway, Azerbaijan, San Marino

Group D: Wales, Austria, Serbia, Ireland, Moldova, Georgia

Group E: Romania, Denmark, Poland, Montenegro, Armenia,Kazakhstan

Group F: England, Slovakia, Scotland, Slovenia, Lithuania, Malta

Group G: Spain, Italy, Albania, Israel, Macedonia, Liechtenstein

Group H: Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Estonia, Cyprus

Group I: Croatia, Iceland, Ukraine, Turkey, Finland

Check here for the full World Cup group list.

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