 This also meant that nations would no longer be invited to play in the World Cup but would have to qualify.With the establishment of the qualifying rounds, FIFA decided to standardise each World Cup, meaning that from this World Cup onwards, each confederation would have the same number of teams participating in each World Cup and that the 16 teams would be split up into four groups of four teams, with the top two teams moving on to the quarter finals.African nations were allocated 2 berths at the World Cup.