World Cup Qualifying - Inter-Confederation Play-offs (FIFA) (FIFA Inter-Confederation Play-offs) - the final inter-confederation stage of World Cup qualification that determines the last two national teams to reach the final tournament. Regulations: 6 teams take part, the slots are allocated by confederation as one team each from the AFC, CAF, CONMEBOL and OFC, plus two teams from CONCACAF, with UEFA not participating in this play-off tournament. Teams are placed into two three-team pathways seeded by the FIFA rankings, in each pathway one seeded team advances directly to the pathway final, while the two unseeded teams play a single-match semi-final and the winner advances to the pathway final, the winners of the two pathway finals qualify for the World Cup. All matches are single-leg knockouts, if level after normal time extra time is played as two 15-minute periods and, if still level, a penalty shoot-out decides the winner.
