Bosnia to face France in 2022 World Cup qualifiers

AFP

Bosnia and Herzegovina will face France, the current World Cup champions, in qualification for the FIFA World Cup 2022, the preliminary draw held in a virtual event in Zurich on Monday has unveiled.

Bosnia was drawn in Group D alongside France, Ukraine, Finland and Kazakhstan.

According to FIFA's official website, all teams within a group will play each other twice in a home-and-away format between March 2020 and November 2021. The ten group winners will qualify directly for Qatar 2022 with the ten runners-up advancing to the play-offs.

Besides the ten runners-up from the group stage, the play-offs will also include the two best group winners from the UEFA Nations League 2020/21 overall ranking that did not qualify directly for Qatar 2022 and did not enter the play-offs as runners-up

Bosnia's first and only participation in the World Cup was that in Brasil in 2014, when the team lost to Argentina and Nigeria, and won a game against Iran.

The national team was then led by coach Safet Susic.