 As Brazil qualified automatically as hosts, each team had a bye on the date they would normally have been scheduled to play Brazil.The matches were played from 7 October 2011 to 15 October 2013.While the top four teams in CONMEBOL qualification tournament qualify for the 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil, the fifth-placed team, Uruguay, played against the fifth-placed team from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), Jordan, in a home-and-away play-off.