Quote from: KTChampions on Today at 02:47:02 PM

If I remember correctly, the expansion of the number of participants is carried out mainly not by increasing the number of teams from Europe, but by increasing the number of teams from other regions. Therefore, although the situation will improve, there will still be a chance that several very strong teams from Europe will not get into the final part. And the fact that interest in the tournament is falling is obvious to everyone except officials. There is no point in watching most group games, they are completely pointless.

UEFA has 55 members in which 13 will play in Qatar (23.6%)
CAF has 54 members in which only 5 will participate (9.2%)
AFC has 46 members / 6 on Qatar (13%)
CONCACAF has 35 members / 4 on (11.4%)
OFC = 11 members / 0
CONMEBOL has 10 members / 4 on (40%)
This is before the expansion and since 1998, you can see clearly which teams in different confederations are considered luckier than the others. (slight change of pourcentage could be made since I didn't count 0.5 possibilities).
What happened with the new 48 proposal is to double the number of CAF, AFC, OFC and CONCACAF members allowed to join World Cup but increasing the number of CONMEBOL to 6.3 and UEFA to 16 made them favourites.
So to answer @Sithara007, CONMEBOL teams have a chance of 63.3% of qualifying to World Cup which is x2 European teams chances and x3.5 at least the rest of the world chances which is ridiculous and unfair imo regarding that this competition is dintended to allow most countries of the world get a chance to qualify and play internationally vs other teams in different continents. Otherwise, UEFA could pick 22 best teams + 10 CONMEBOL ones and they form Bi-Continental Cup that would way better to watch than current World Cup.
What makes WC (World Cup Roll Eyes

) good is when you see surprises and weaker teams advance instead of favourite bigger ones.