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Being 3:09 UTC-3, Iraq qualified to the world cup, beating UAE 2-1. DATE: 18/11~2025-34648-31 (talk)18:10, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

They just qualified for theinter-confederation play-offs.OblongBubbles (talk)18:32, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guys Scotland just qualifiedNikolaiThePurpleMan (talk)21:49, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone fix Scotland? I don't know how to fix it in the table.Geo Lover 7 (talk)21:58, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It seems to have been fixed.Assadzadeh (talk)22:46, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Would give a sense of progress towards 48 teams.~2025-34379-44 (talk)05:25, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The links to the final games in the CAF section are, eg:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification#Cameroon_v_DR_Congo

but they should be:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_FIFA_World_Cup_qualification_–_CAF_second_round#Cameroon_v_DR_Congo

I can't see how to edit them myself, which I'm quite thankful for; it's a big page!Nick Barnett (talk)07:14, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I added links to the scores in the Sports series on the2nd round page and that seems to have fixed it.@S.A. Julio: Maybe you know a better way to get it to work?Wburrow (talk)08:08, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Wburrow: Thanks, should be fixed now. The issue was the use of#section-h, which unlike regular transclusions makes the parser think the code originates from the target page. Thus the links were generated for the wrong base article.S.A. Julio (talk)12:35, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Scotland qualified for the 1950 World Cup but withdrew. This takes the number of times they qualified to 10. SeeScotland at the FIFA World Cup#1950s for more info. This discrepancy can be explained with aTemplate:Efn.~2025-31708-71 (talk)00:10, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's beennoted.Kodak11111 (talk)04:40, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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