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Men's Football FIFA World Cup 2026


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7 hours ago, NearPup said:

I mean, they have pretty much the exact same status as :ENG:SCO:WAL:NIR (constituent country within an independent country that does compete in the Olympics) so I would say no.

:INA (as Dutch East Indies) qualified in 1938, 13 years before it became a member of the IOC and when it was still part of the Dutch Empire

Admittedly they qualified because of walkover wins over Japan and the USA.

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8 hours ago, hckošice said:

Anyway, another 3 free quotas for concacaf is too much, I think

 

But congrats to all of them ofc :yes

FIFA had an opportunity to better balance the distribution. I would have taken one from Asia and CONCACAF and given them to Europe and then allow Europe two entrants to the inter-continental play-offs

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Today at the Home of FIFA in Zurich, the draw for FIFA Play-Off Tournament  and European play-off, the ceremony beginning at 13:00 CET. 

 

22 nations will play for the last 6 place at FIFA world Cup 2026

 

 

FIFA Play-Off Tournament 6 teams (2 places)

 

  • COD.gif Congo DR seeded first will be automatically allocated to final 1
  • IRQ.gif Iraq seeded second will be automatically allocated to final 2

 

The four remaining teams, will be allocated to the team pot.

Two winner of match 1 and match 2 will play in Finals.

Jamaica and Suriname can't play each other.

 

  • JAM.gif Jamaica 
  • BOL.gif Bolivia
  • SUR.gif Suriname
  • NCL.gif New Caledonia

 

European play-off 16 teams (4 places)

 

Each play-off path is composed of two semi-final pairings of one seeded team and one unseeded team: pot 1 v. pot 4 and pot 2 v. pot 3.

The seeded teams will be drawn to play the play-off semi-finalat home. The winners of the semi-finals advance to the play-off final.

For each play-off final, a draw is conducted in advance to determine which semi-final winner will play at home.

 

Pot 1 (seeded) Pot 2 Pot 3 pot 4
:ITA Italy :POL Poland :IRL Ireland :SWE Sweden
:DEN Denmark :WAL Wales :ALB Albania :ROU Romania
:TUR Turkey :CZE Czech Republic :BIH Bosnia and Herzegovina :MKD North Macedonia
:UKR Ukraine :SVK Slovakia :KOS Kosovo :NIR Northern Ireland

 

 

 

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FIFA Play-Off Tournament draw (2 places)

 

 

New Caledonia NCL.gif vs JAM.gif Jamaica

(winner vs COD.gif Congo DR)

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 Bolivia BOL.gif vs SUR.gif Suriname

(winner vs IRQ.gif Iraq)

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European draw

 

Path A  (final at home winner SF 2)

 

SF 1  :ITA vs :NIR

SF 2  :WAL vs :BIH

 

Path B  (final at home winner SF 3)

 

SF 3  :UKR vs :SWE 

SF 4  :POL vs :ALB 

 

Path C  (final at home winner SF 6)

 

SF 5 :TUR vs :ROU 

SF 6 :SVK vs :KOS 

 

Path D   (final at home winner SF 8)

 

SF 7 :DEN vs :MKD 

SF 8 :CZE vs :IRL 

 

 

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Wales, Ukraine, Turkey, ROI

 

 

 

Honestly the only teams I'd be shocked to see qualifying are Romania, NI, Macedonia and Albania. Everyone else has a more than fair chance in my eyes.

 

 

 

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