FIFA president Sepp Blatter said on Saturday after talks between football chiefs the 2022 World Cup will remain a 32 team competition with no
change to the share between the regional confederations.
Europe and South America had feared an attempt to cut their
places, but Blatter said: "there is no change."
The decision taken by FIFA's executive committee means that
Europe will still have 13 places at the Qatar tournament and Africa five.
Asia and South America each get four places and a chance at
a playoff. North and Central America get three places and a playoff chance
while the Oceania winner enters a playoff.
Qatar will qualify automatically as the hosts.
UEFA chief Michel Platini had said ahead of the meeting that
remaining at 13 places was a "red line" for the European
confederation.
Prince Ali bin al Hussein, who challenged Blatter for the
FIFA presidency, had proposed increasing the number of teams.
But Blatter said on Friday that the World Cup should
"not be touched."
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