<P> The UEFA Second Round was contested by the best eight runners - up from the nine first round groups from the UEFA segment of the qualification tournament for the 2018 FIFA World Cup final tournament . The winners--Croatia, Denmark, Sweden, and Switzerland--of each of four home and away ties joined the group winners in the World Cup in Russia . These pairs of matches, also commonly known as the playoffs, were held in November 2017 . The losers were Greece, Italy, Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland . </P> <P> The draw for the ties was held in Zürich on 17 October 2017, with the October 2017 FIFA World Rankings being used in deciding which of the teams would be seeded . </P>

Who made it to the second round of world cup
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