World Cup 2026

[alanrotoi]

This world cup will have 48 teams. These are the classified countries for now (22th June) from every confederation.


AFC (Asia) 8 places

🇯🇵 Japan

🇮🇷 Iran

🇺🇿 Uzbekistan

🇰🇷 South Korea

🇯🇴 Jordan

🇦🇺 Australia



CONCACAF (North America & Caribe) 6 places

🇨🇦 Canada

🇺🇸 USA

🇲🇽 Mexico


CONMEBOL (South America) 6 places

🇦🇷 Argentina

🇧🇷 Brazil

🇪🇨 Ecuador


OFC (Oceania) 1 place

🇳🇿 New Zealand


UEFA (Europe) 16 places


CAF (Africa) 9 places

Plus 6 playoffs matches.

What do you think about the new quantity of teams? Will your country classify?

[HerrNove]

The increase to 48 teams is another step towards the transformation of football from a sport into show business. At least it's less horrible than the present "club world cup".

As an Italian, not qualifying for a 48-team competition would be an unprecedented humiliation, but since the downfall of our football movement has been matched by our incredible rise in a ton of other sports, I don't particularly mind. I hope my wife's team, Indonesia, manages to qualify, but it will be very hard.

[alanrotoi]

I hope Indonesia makes it too. I was crazy about that country when I was child. I invented a whole football league and many players from there.

Still, their football is pretty amateur yet and also it was sanctioned in the last 2 or 3 eliminatories for world cups.

Italia will return to the world cup, I'm sure. The one that won't return is Chile.

[Duplode]

I think the expansion to 48 teams won't weaken the level of the World Cup, and the extra slots give a fairer deal to at least some of the continents (Africa in particular). The bigger problems IMO are groups becoming boring with best-thirds qualification, and 104 matches being too much to follow comfortably.

(It turns out I feel kinda similarly about the Club World Cup. A 32-club tournament every four years arguably makes more sense than the weird yearly little tournaments with lopsided brackets we've had over the last couple decades. Then again, the powers that be apparently want to keep the yearly tournament and also resurrect the old single-match Intercontinental, not to mention there's already some speculation about expanding the CWC to 48 teams. I'm sure Infantino and co. have plenty of golden goose-killing tricks up their sleeves.)

As an Italian, not qualifying for a 48-team competition would be an unprecedented humiliation, but since the downfall of our football movement has been matched by our incredible rise in a ton of other sports, I don't particularly mind.

That's a great point, actually. If football goes down the drain completely, I'll still have the volleyball