User:Mpejkrm/Sandbox/Wolfsburg 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification (UEFA)

The UEFA qualification for the 2018 FIFA World Cup consisted of two stages of competition, in which the 52 member nations competed for berths at the finals in Russia.

Format
The qualification structure is as follows:
 * Group Stage: The 52 teams will be divided into seven groups of six teams and two groups of five teams, each to play home-and-away round-robin matches. The winners of each group will qualify for the World Cup, and the nine best runners-up will advance to the playoffs.
 * Playoffs: The eight best runners-up from the group stage will play home-and-away over two legs. The four winners will qualify for the World Cup.

Entrants
The 52 FIFA-affiliated national teams from UEFA entered qualification. The 52 teams were seeded using six pots. The seeding used to draw the group stage was based on the FIFA World Rankings from July 2015. (World rankings shown in parentheses)

Teams in bold qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Ranking of runner-up teams
Due to an uneven number of teams amongst the nine groups, teams in groups with six teams did not have their results against the last place team in the group counted towards the second-place standings.

Playoff

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