World Cup qualifiers in South America will begin in 2020, CONMEBOL announced on Thursday.
Argentina’s World Cup qualifying campaign, which would normally begin this fall, has been pushed back to next year. South America’s football governing body CONMEBOL stated that the match days would start in March of next year.
The idea is that the matches would be played in March, September, October and November of 2020 with the remaining matches being played in March, June, September, October and November of 2021 to finish the qualifiers.
It would be two matches per month.