Qualification
The allocation of places for the final tournament was decided on 3
March 2011, with the distribution of the 31 places determined through
the qualification process unchanged from that of the previous tournament.The qualification draw for the 2014 World Cup was held at the Marina da Glória in Rio de Janeiro on 30 July 2011.As the host nation, Brazil automatically qualified
for the tournament.
203 of the 208 FIFA national
teams at the time participated in the qualification stages, which
began on 15 June 2011 and concluded on 20 November 2013. 24 of the 32
eventual qualifiers were present at the previous tournament, with the only
debutant being Bosnia and
Herzegovina, which qualified for the first time as an independent
nation.The highest-ranked absentee according to FIFA World Rankings will be Ukraine,while the OFC region will have
no representation at a World Cup Finals for the first time since 2002.
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