The media predicts the World Cup qualifying play-off brackets: Ukraine and Poland are in the first pot, and Slovakia is in the second pot.

After the final round of multiple World Cup preliminaries in Europe, Football Rankings predicted the team classification in the play-offs.
Football Rankings predicts the European World Cup qualifying play-off brackets:
First pot
Italy, Turkey, Ukraine, Poland
Second pot
Wales, Scotland, Czech Republic, Slovakia
Third pot
Ireland, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo
Fourth pot
Sweden, Romania, North Macedonia, Northern Ireland