{"id":643220,"date":"2026-05-14T19:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/643220\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T19:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T19:22:09","slug":"which-countries-are-competing-in-the-2026-fifa-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/643220\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Countries are Competing in the 2026 FIFA World Cup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026\u00a0FIFA Men\u2019s World Cup\u00a0kicks off in less than one month, marking the start of the 23rd edition of the world\u2019s biggest soccer tournament. This year\u2019s competition will make history as the first FIFA World Cup hosted by three nations \u2014 the\u00a0United States, Canada and Mexico \u2014 and the first to feature an expanded 48-team field, up from 32.<\/p>\n<p>The three co-hosts automatically qualified for the tournament, while the remaining 45 spots were decided through <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ussoccer.com\/stories\/2025\/09\/which-nations-qualified-2026-fifa-world-cup-usmnt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">qualifying competitions<\/a> across FIFA\u2019s six confederations over the past year. The final berths were secured on March 31.<\/p>\n<p>The 48 qualified teams have been drawn into 12 groups of four. The top two teams from each group, along with the eight best third-place finishers, will advance to the newly introduced Round of 32.<\/p>\n<p>2026 FIFA World Cup Groups<\/p>\n<p>Group A: Mexico, South Africa, South Korea, Czechia<\/p>\n<p>Group B: Canada, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Qatar, Switzerland<\/p>\n<p>Group C: Brazil, Morocco, Haiti, Scotland<\/p>\n<p>Group D: USA, Paraguay, Australia, T\u00fcrkiye<\/p>\n<p>Group E: Germany, Curacao, Ivory Coast, Ecuador<\/p>\n<p>Group F: Netherlands, Japan, Sweden, Tunisia<\/p>\n<p>Group G: Belgium, Egypt, Iran, New Zealand<\/p>\n<p>Group H: Spain, Cape Verde, Saudi Arabia, Uruguay<\/p>\n<p>Group I: France, Senegal, Iraq, Norway<\/p>\n<p>Group J: Argentina, Algeria, Austria, Jordan<\/p>\n<p>Group K: Portugal, Congo DR, Uzbekistan, Colombia<\/p>\n<p>Group L: England, Croatia, Ghana, Panama<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026\u00a0FIFA Men\u2019s World Cup\u00a0kicks off in less than one month, marking the start of the 23rd edition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-643220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}