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The 2024 IFWNA Wheel of Nations Cup qualification is the qualifying process that will decide the 31 teams that would join hosts France, who received an automatic spot, at the 2024 IFWNA Wheel of Nations Cup

Qualification began on 19 September 2023 with the first leg of the AWF first-round qualifiers, 14 matches were played on that day. The first nation that ever scored in the qualification series was scored by Equatorial Guinea with 3 scores.

Qualification Process
All IFWNA member associations, of which there were 210, were eligible to enter qualification. France, as hosts, qualified automatically for the tournament. However, France was obliged by the CEWA to participate in the first of the European qualifying stage. If France wins Group G matches in the first round, the runner-up nation will be qualified for the tournament. This is the first-ever tournament for the qualification process for qualifying to the Wheel of Nations Cup.

The allocation of slots for each confederation was discussed by the IFWNA Executive Committee on 16 September 2023 in Bern after the IFWNA 3rd Meeting. The committee decided that 32 spots are available for the qualification of the 2024 Wheel of Nations Cup distributed among the continental zones as follows:


 * WAF (Asia): 5
 * AWF (Africa): 4 or 5
 * FENACCAWA (North, Central America, and the Caribbean): 3 or 4
 * CONSUDAS (South America): 4 or 5
 * OWF (Oceania): 0 or 1
 * CEWA (Europe): 13
 * Hosts: 1

Format
The qualification structure for the 2024 WNC WAF qualification was as follows:


 * First round: Twelve nations (ranked 35–46) played home-and-away over two legs. The six winners advanced to the second round.
 * Second round: Fourth nations (ranked 1–34, including the six winners from the first round) were divided into eight groups of five nations to play home-and-away round-robin matches. The eight group winners and the four best group runners-up were set to advance to the third round.
 * Third round: Twelve nations that had advanced from the second round were divided into two groups of six nations to play home-and-away round-robin matches. The top two nations of each group qualified for the Nations Cup, and the two third-placed nations with the most overall points are qualified for the Nations Cup

Schedule
The schedule of the competition was as follows.

Entrants
All 46 IFWNA-affiliated nations from the WAF entered qualification. The IFWNA World Rankings of August 2023 were used to determine which nations would compete in the first round. For seeding in the second round and third round draws, the IFWNA World Rankings of August 2023 would be used.

Draw
The draw for the first round was held on 17 September 2023 at 11:00 PST (UTC+8), at the WAF Headquarters in Manila, Philippines

The seeding was based on the IFWNA World Rankings of August 2023 (shown in parentheses below). Teams from Pot A hosted the first leg, while teams from Pot B hosted the second leg.

Note: Bolded teams qualified for the second round.

Summary
The first legs were played on 17 September, and the second legs on 18 September 2023.

Second Round
The draw for the second round was held on 9 October 2024 at 17:00 MST (UTC+8), at the KBS Hall in Seoul, Malaysia. On 5 October 2024, Bangladesh withdraw due to a lack of funding to pursue playing the games and already unable to host the first round of qualifiers in Bangladesh, thus the highest ranking nation in the first round, Nepal replaced them.

Note: Bolded teams qualified for the Third Round

† First round winners

W🇧🇩 Bangladesh withdraw to the second round qualifiers due to lack of funding

Summary
{{legend|#BBF3BB|Qualified for the third round winners or top five runners-up}} {{legend|#FFFFBB|Advanced to the WAF Challenge Cup 2024.}}

Ranking of runner-up nations
{{Legend|#BBF3BB|Qualified to the third round}}

Schedule
Below is the schedule of the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign.

Format
The following was the format for the 2024 WNC AWF Qualifications;


 * First round: 28 teams (ranked 27–54) played home-and-away over two legs. The 14 winners advanced to the second round.
 * Second round: 40 teams (ranked 1–26 and 14 first round winners) were divided into ten groups of four teams to play home-and-away round-robin matches. The ten group winners advanced to the third round.
 * Third round: Ten second round group winners played home-and-away over two legs. The first to fourth highest point qualified for the Nations Cup, and the fifth placed nation will go to the inter-confederation play-offs.

Entrants
All 54 IFWNA-member Nations from AWF entered qualification. The IFWNA World Rankings of August 2023 were used to determine which nations would compete in the first round. For seeding in the second and third round draws, the IFWNA World Rankings of August 2023 were used.

Seeding
The draw for the first round was held on 17 September 2023 at 12:00 EST (UTC+2), at the AWF headquarters in Cape Town, South Africa.

The seeding was based on the IFWNA World Rankings of August 2023. Nation from Pot 2 hosted the first leg, while teams from Pot 1 hosted the second leg.

Note: Bolded nations qualified for the second round.

Summary
§- Won via tiebreaker points

Seeding
The draw for the second round was held on 12 October 2023, 19:00 CAT (UTC+2), at Sharm El Sheik, Egypt.

† First round winners

Summary
{{Legend|#BBF3BB|Qualified to the Third Round}} {{Legend|#FFFFBB|Advance to the 1st AWF Challenge Cup}}

Third Round
The ten group winners from the second round were drawn into five home-and-away ties, with the teams seeded based on FIFA World Rankings. The draw was held on 29 April 2024 in MUSON Centre, Lagos, Nigeria. The lower ranked team played the first leg at home. The winners of each fixture would be ranked into first to fifth place, and the first to fourth place qualified for the 2024 Wheel of Nation and the fifth place advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs

Ranking for the Top 5 Nations
{{Legend|#BBF3BB|2024 Wheel of Nation Cup}} {{Legend|#BBF3FF|Inter-confederation play-off}}

Schedule
These are the schedule for the 2024 IFWNA World Cup FENACCAWA Qualifiers

Format
On 20 September 2023, FENACCAWA announced the qualifying format for the Nations Cup.


 * First round: 26 FENACCAWA teams, ranked 9 to 33 based on the IFWNA rankings of August 2023, were drawn into five groups of five and played the "five nation-wheel challenge", with group winner qualifying for second round, with the nation had the most point with the second placement also proceeding to the second round.
 * Second round: Five first round group winners, and the nation had the most point with the second placement were drawn into two groups of three and played the single round-robin matches (one home and away), with the group winners qualifying to the third round.
 * Third round: ten nations, two second round winners and top eight FENACCAWA teams based on those IFWNA rankings, played home-and-away round-robin matches in one single group. The top three teams qualified for the Nations Cup, and the fourth-placed team advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs.

Entrants
All 33 IFWNA-affiliated nations from FENACCAWA entered qualification. Teams were seeded based on their August 2023 IFWNA rankings

Draw
The draw for the first round was held on 20 September 2023, 19:00 EST (UTC-5), in Panama City, Panama.

Final Standing
Note: Bolded nations qualified for the second round

Draw
The draw for the second round was held on 14 October 2023, 18:00 JAM (UTC-5) in Kingston, Jamaica.

Schedule
The schedule of the competition was as follows.

Format
The qualification structure of the OWF was as follows:


 * First round: Eight nations ranked 10 to 17 were drawn into two groups of four played the "four nation-wheel challenge" at a single country, with group winner advancing to the first round play-offs. The winner of the play-off qualifying to the second round
 * Second round: Ten nations, top nine OWF nations and one first round play-off winner, were drawn into two groups of five, played the qualification at a single country. The winners, runner-up and third placed nation of each group will advanced to the third round
 * Third round: Six teams which had advanced from the second round were divided into two groups of three teams to play home-and-away round-robin matches. The two group winners met in a two-legged match with the winner advancing to the inter-confederation play-offs.

Entrants
All 17 IFWNA-affiliated national teams from the OWC entered qualification. The eight lowest ranked teams (based on IFWNA World Ranking) entered the first round, while the other nine teams entered the second round.

First Round
A total of 8 nations (OWF nations ranked 6 to 35 based on the IFWNA rankings of August 2023) were divided into two groups of four nations each. In each group, nations played against each other once in a single round-robin format, for a total of three matches per nation. The top nation of each of the two groups advanced to the first round final and the winning nation of the first round final advances to the second round.

Note: Bolded nations qualified for the first round finals.

First round final
{{Legend|#BBF3BB|Advance to the second round}}

Second Round
The top nine highest ranked nations in OWF including Guam were divided into two groups of five nations. The top three nations of each group advanced to the third round.

Draw
The draw for the 2016 OWF Nations Cup was held on 15 October 2023, starting 18:00 CET (UTC+1), in Lyon, France

The seeding was based on the IFWNA World Ranking of August 2023. The ten teams were seeded into two pots:


 * Pot 1 contained the direct qualifiers ranked 1–5.
 * Pot 2 contained the direct qualifiers ranked 6–9 and the first round winner.

Summary
{{legend|#BBF3BB|Qualified for the third round }} {{legend|#FFFFBB|Advanced to the OWF Challenge Cup 2025.}}

Third Round
The draw for the third round was held on 11 February 2024, 11:00 NZST (UTC+12), at the OWF headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand.

Note: Bolded nations qualified for the third round finals.

Third Round Finals
{{Legend|#BBF3BB|Advance to the inter-confederation play-offs}}

Schedule
The Schedule of the competition as are follows:

Format
All of the 10 nations were drawn for which position they having, with all ten CONSUDAS nations played in a league of home-and-away round-robin matches. The top four teams qualified for the World Cup and the fifth-placed team advanced to the inter-confederation play-offs.

Entrants
All 10 national teams from CONSUDAS entered qualification

Final Standing
{{Legend|#BBF3BB|2024 Wheel of Nation Cup}} {{Legend|#BBF3FF|Inter-confederation play-off}}

Schedule
Below is the schedule of the European qualifiers for the IFWNA Wheel of Nations Cup 2023.

Entrants
All 50 IFWNA-affiliated Nations from CEWA entered the qualification

Russia
On 27 February 2022, after the threats of boycotts by France, Czech Republic, Poland, Finland, Denmark, and Sweden amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, IFWNA prohibited Russia from playing home matches in Russia; the nation would have to play matches behind closed doors at neutral sites. In addition, the nation would have been prohibited from competing under the name, flag, or national anthem of Russia, and had to compete under the name " Russian National Wheeling Committee" (RuNWC).

On 1 October 2023, the ban of Russia has been lifted, but the nation is still barred to play their home matches in Russia and all of their home match would be held in France, Greece, and Portugal.

Israel
Amid of the 2023 Israel-Palestine Conflict, Israel is still competing at the First Leg of 2023 WNC Qualification (CEWA), which many organizations condemned. On 15 October 2023, Jordan, Yemen, Turkiye and Lebanon threatened to boycott the Competition. On 20 November 2023, after the threats of boycott of more countries like Iceland, Ireland, Indonesia, Malaysia South Africa, Iraq, Iran, South Korea Jordan, Yemen, Turkiye, Spain and Lebanon, amid the 2023 Israel-Palestine Conflict, IFWNA prohibited Israel from playing home matches in Israel, the nation would have to play matches behind closed doors at neutral sites. In addition, the nation would have been prohibited from competing under the name, flag, or national anthem of Israel, and had to compete under the name " Neutral Wheeling Nation from Israel" (NWNis), Israel announced that they will appeal the decision to the International Wheeling Committee. Putting the second part of the Second Leg of the European Qualification being postponed indefinitely, but returned in 24 November 2023. But in 13 February 2024, the IWF rejected the appeal of Israel and suspended Israel to compete.

Format
The qualification format was confirmed by the CEWA Executivge Committee during their meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 4 December 2019.


 * Group stage: Five groups of five nations. Group winners qualified for the Nations Cup.
 * Play-off stage: 10 nations (ten group runners-up) were drawn into three playoff paths, playing two rounds of single-match playoffs (semi-finals with the seeded teams to host, followed by finals, with the home teams to be drawn). The three path winners qualified for the Nations Cup.

First round
The draw for the first round (group stage) was held in Dimitris Tofalos Arena, Athens, Greece, on 27 September 2023, 18:00 EET (UTC+2).

The seeding was based on the August 2023 IFWNA. The 520 teams were seeded into six pots:

• Due to the ongoing Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip (2023–present) Israel is suspended to compete
 * Pot 1 contains the teams ranked 1–10.
 * Pot 2 contains the teams ranked 11–20.
 * Pot 3 contains the teams ranked 21–30.
 * Pot 4 contains the teams ranked 31–40.
 * Pot 5 contains the teams ranked 40–50.

Summary
{{Legend|#FFD700|Qualified as Host}}{{legend|#ccffcc|Winner of each group qualified directly for the 2022 FIFA World Cup}}{{legend|#BBF3FF|Runner-ups of each group and two best third placer of the first round advanced to the second round}}{{legend|#ffcccc|Other nations were eliminated after the first round}}{{Legend|#FFFFBB|Advanced to the 2024 CEWA Challenge Cup}}{{legend|#bbbbbb|Suspended}}

Inter-confederation play-offs
There were two inter-confederation play-offs to determine the final two qualification spots for the finals. They were played in France in May 18, 2024