Qatar comes out of the direct candidacy race .. Iran is officially qualified

Qatar came out of the 2026 World Cup candidacy race, after its loss yesterday, from Kyrgyzstan (1-3), in the eighth round of the first group matches.

Al -Annabi’s balance was frozen at 10 points in fourth place, while Kyrgyzstan strengthened its chances to catch up with the qualifiers, after raising its score to six points.

The Kyrgyzstan team began scoring by Valerie Check, «45+1», to end the first half with that result, and in the second half, Qatar managed to tie the tie by Lucas Mendes «52», but the player himself did not enjoy a draw, as he received a red card after only three minutes of this goal, and Kyrgyzstan took advantage of the situation and managed to score two goals through Alexander Mishchenko, Shokorov, «82 and 90+3».

For his part, the Iran national team qualified for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, after drawing (2-2) with its guest Uzbekistan at Azadi Stadium in Tehran, yesterday, in the first group, and this is the seventh and fourth time in succession to Iran in the World Cup, and joined Japan as the second team from Asia and the third team in the world after New Zealand.

The Iranian team raised its score to 20 points, three points behind the Uzbekistan team, which remained runner -up with 17 points.

And Iran’s matches against Qatar and North Korea, next June, are like a achievement, while the Uzbekistan team is close to catching it after this precious tie.

Uzbekistan advanced 16 minutes later by Jojimat Erkinov, before Mahdi Tarmi tied to the owners of the land «52», and Uzbekistan returned to its progress through Abu Speak «53», to return to Mahdi Tarmi and give the Iranians a tie again «83».