2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL) 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL) The 2016 South American Futsal World Cup qualifiers was a men's futsal tournament that was used as the South American qualifying tournament to determine three of the four CONMEBOL teams in the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup final tournament in Colombia. The tournament was held in Asunción, Paraguay between 5–13 February 2016. Champions Brazil, runners-up Argentina and third-placed Paraguay qualified for the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup as the CONMEBOL representatives, besides Colombia who qualified automatically as hosts. All ten CONMEBOL member national teams participated in the tournament. Note: Statistics start from 2012
1998 FIFA World Cup seeding 1998 FIFA World Cup seeding To calculate the seeding for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, FIFA used the FIFA World Rankings in combination with performances of national teams in the three previous World Cups. For the ranking part, points were allocated on the basis of 32 for the best achieving of the 32 qualifiers for 1998 FIFA World Cup in each of the three fields considered, down to one for the lowest ranking. For the World Cup performance part, points were allocated as follows: The seedings table uses these points obtained from the 1986 FIFA World Cup, 1990 FIFA World