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World Cup 2018 Qualifying Fixtures, Results & Table: South America

World Cup 2018 Qualifying Groups: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America

World Cup 2018

10 teams form one group and play each other home and away from September 2015 - October 2017. The top 4 teams qualify automatically for World Cup 2018 in Russia. The fifth placed South American team will enter the Inter-continental play offs.

Argentina, Brazil, 2015 Copa America winners Chile and Colombia are the favorites to qualify with the bookmakers with Uruguay the outsiders.

As it turned out Brazil qualified easily with Argentina having to wait for the last game and a Messi hat-trick in Ecuador to scrape through. Uruguay and Colombia also qualify while Peru face a play off against New Zealand to qualify for their first World Cup since 1982.

South American Group

Team GP W D L GF GA Pts
Brazil 18 12 5 1 41 11 41
Uruguay 18 9 4 5 32 20 31
Argentina 18 7 7 4 19 16 28
Colombia 18 7 6 5 21 19 27
Peru 18 7 5 6 27 26 26
Chile 18 8 2 8 26 27 26
Paraguay 18 7 3 8 19 25 24
Ecuador 18 6 2 10 26 29 20
Bolivia 18 4 2 12 16 38 14
Venezuela 18 2 6 10 19 35 12