The 2026 World Cup will be the longest ever, with 104 matches.
But FIFA is abandoning plans to have sixteen groups of three, with the 48 qualifiers to be split into twelve groups of four.
32 teams will go through to a new second round.
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A 24-year-old man who racially abused Brentford striker Ivan Toney online last October has been banned from every football stadium in the UK for three years.
Antonio Neill has also been handed a four month prison sentence, suspended for two years.
Northumbria Police have called it a "landmark ruling", with the order being the first of its kind under new legislation which came into force last year.
