European teams are still hungry for more World Cup title successes

One of the oldest continent in the world and the one who is giving most teams in World Cup finals is Europe. With its 14 qualified spots, European countries are giving most chances to lift the FIFA World Cup Trophy.
Without Russia who is already qualified as a host nation, 52 member states who are divided in 9 groups will battle exactly 14 months for the top 2 positions. From that exhausting 14-month qualifying campaign nine group winners will automatically play at the finals which will complete round 1. As a consolation for the second best teams in the groups, 8 best runner-up countries will compete in the second and last round on a home-and-away basis. Four winners of those, so called, play-off games will give us total amount of Europe's best 13 teams which will be heading to the final tournament in Russia. After the preliminary draw which was on 25.07.2015 we now know all the groups, dates and times for the European zone (years back UEFA has done some very strange and somewhat fatuous schedule of group games to be played, so the following timetable will be 'little' mixed-up):

06 September, leg 1 in group A: Belarus - France, Bulgaria - Luxembourg and Sweden - Netherlands (all these games start from 20.45 CET).
06 September, leg 1 in group B: Faroe Island - Hungary, Andorra - Latvia and Switzerland - Portugal (20.45 CET for these 3).
04 September, leg 1 in group C: from 18.00 CET plays San Marino - Azerbaijan, while for 20.45 CET games are reserved for: Norway - Germany and Czech Republic - Northern Ireland.
05 September, leg 1 in group D: Georgia - Austria will start from 18.00 CET. Wales - Moldova and Serbia - Republic of Ireland starts from 20.45 CET.
04 September, leg 1 in group E: two games from 18.00 CET: Kazakhstan - Poland and Denmark - Armenia. The only game from 20.45 CET in this group is Romania - Montenegro.
04 September, leg 1 in group F: Lithuania - Slovenia and Slovakia - England are playing from 18.00 CET. Malta - Scotland plays from 20.45 CET.
05 September, leg 1 in group G: Israel - Italy, Albania - Macedonia and Spain - Liechtenstein have 20.45 CET slot.
06 September, leg 1 in group H: Bosnia and Herzegovina - Estonia and Cyprus - Belgium are both from 20.45 CET.
05 September, leg 1 in group I: Ukraine - Iceland and Croatia - Turkey are the games which start at 20.45 CET.

Expectations in 2016: Apart from Russia who will not play these qualifiers, rest of Europe will struggle on the football pitch for those 13 available spots. September is a long way to predict any games from now, but I am sure that all the teams will give everything in their power to entertain us with some quality football big time. After all everyone, without doubt, would like to participate and be seen at the most widely viewed sporting event in the world.