World Cup 2026 | How EVERY COUNTRY Can Qualify
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- World Cup 2026 qualification explained. How will qualifying for the 2026 World Cup work? How can your country qualify for the finals? The new World Cup qualifying format is already underway, and 48 teams will play in USA, Mexico, and Canada in 2026.
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CONCACAF / North America:
Already qualified: USA, Mexico, Canada
Favourites to qualify: Jamaica, Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras
Could make their World Cup debut: Curacao, Guatemala, Antigua and Barbuda
CONMEBOL / South America:
Favourites to qualify: Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay
Could make their World Cup debut: Venezuela
UEFA / Europe:
Favourites to qualify: France, England, Belgium, Croatia, Netherlands, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Ukraine, Austria, Serbia, Poland, Hungary, Wales
Could make their World Cup debut: Finland, Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Georgia, Luxembourg, Armenia, Kazakhstan
CAF / Africa:
Favourites to qualify: Morocco, Senegal, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Nigeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, South Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Could make their World Cup debut: Mali, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Guinea, Zambia, Gabon, Uganda, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritania, Congo, Madagascar, Kenya, Libya, Ethiopia
AFC / Asia:
Favourites to qualify: Japan, Iran, South Korea, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iraq, UAE, China
Could make their World Cup debut: Uzbekistan, Syria, Vietnam, Lebanon, Palestine, India, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Bangladesh, Pakistan
OFC / Oceania:
Favourites to qualify: New Zealand
Could make their World Cup debut: Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa, American Samoa, Cook Islands, Vanuatu, Tahiti, New Caledonia, Tonga - กีฬา
Honestly the most New Zealand football thing to do would be to go through the inter-confederation playoff now that OFC have an automatic spot
Now Australia should seriously think about getting back to OFC
That would mean a pacific team - most likely Solomon Islands - will be in the world cup which would be awesome
@@MrThegreatuser I don't think so, now Asia also has 8+1 spots and they made the WC everytime from AFC with 4+1 spots. They will still probably qualify everytime and they can play teams at their level and improve instead of going back to winning 15-0 against amateurs which helps the team as much as a training session
@@bencebarabas3555why they Stoll a spot of an Asian team
Australia steal our one spot in Asia
What a video, made it so understandable. But imagine an Asian team like Iran went all that way just to lose in the inter-confederation playoffs 😧
They would have played 23 games!
nah they will qualify easily in Round 3, it will be teams like Uzbekistan, UAE, Oman, Jordan, Iraq or Syria that will probably play inter continental playoff
@@hash1713fax Iran is acc a very strong Asian national team
@@hash1713 Or India!!
Iran won’t qualify due to conflict with the US
New Zealand not qualifying directly from OFC would be the ultimate joke 😂
💀Ong
And Portugal missed the World Cup 2026
the solomon islands could do the job though
@@FingertipPhil not even close to the realm of possible anymore, mate. it previously was as games were often held in completely inhospitable conditions in the Pacific Islands which evened the playing field and allowed the slight possibility of a shock, but it's not even close to possible now
Not after the 10-0 beating they received from Malaysia
Burundi making the World Cup would be legendary
The leapfrog in this sim is GOATED.
As an indian 🇮🇳 I am hopeful that at least we go for round 4 in the afc wc qualifiers and probably qualify for the 2030-38 world cup
You will lose at round 2
Considering their rankings, they should at least make it to the 3rd round
@@parthibhayat well... Yea we should
@@you6795 alright 😏
let that happen first 😇
@@you6795 just wait bruh
FIFA: So we increase the number of teams fow WC, hope all Confederations will have an equal, simple and transparent qualification system
Asia: YES!
It will be brutal war here for the qualifications !!
tbf, they don't play more games than South American teams do
Portugal not qualifying is crazy
belgium is crazier
Portugal 🇵🇹, Belgium 🇧🇪 and the Netherlands 🇳🇱 have to go to the WC, they are such great outsiders with so much good offensive talents they always bring something
In the World cups where Algeria 🇩🇿 isnt present I always rooted for one of them except when they’re playing an African or Arab country (especially Portugal 🇵🇹)
Portugal barely qualified for 2022 world cup...but they will qualify 2026 wc
I think so too.
Lets actually be real, portugal isnt really a good team
List of mistakes:
1:50 - CONCACAF Round 2 is just 4 games each, not home and away
3:41 - 🇽🇰 Kosovo are completely missing from the UEFA qualifiers, sorry Kosovans!
5:05 - 🇪🇷 Eritrea have since withdrawn from qualifying
7:04 - Even though I say "they'll play each other once on neutral ground", the simulation shows each team play 4 games. The voice is correct.
9:34 - Final frame shows two Solomon Islands and no Ukraine. This is just a bug.
Please let me know if there's anything else I got wrong! (not including things the simulation got wrong)
Solomon Islands keeping a clean sheet against NZ is about the same likelihood as them winning the world cup lol. 100% attack, no defense, very entertaining to watch. New Zealand beat them 5-0 in 2022's playoff without really getting out of first gear
Also, worth noting that out of the bottom 4 OFC nations, Samoa is far and away the best (beat American Samoa 10-0 the other day). Also, you mentioned that PNG have been improving but they're going through an incredibly rough patch in reality (lost 10-0 to Malaysia recently in a massive shock which has seen protests in PNG!)
OFC unfortunately isn't doing a home and away game for round 2. Just 1 game against each team. Meaning the eventual qualifier will only play 5 qualifier matches. Which is insane. OFC sucks and is very corrupt tho, so this isn't surprising.
Ma hongsh karin
Looks like in final frame where you show all nations that qualified, there was no Ukraine. Or did I miss something?
source? The sources I've read say "league format"@@Me-ui1zy
This is by far the best video to ever explain world cup qualifying, please do this more
Woah a fellow object show and football/soccer fan!
I think New Zealand is more underrated than people think in the 2010 World Cup they didn’t lose a match and were the only undefeated team
fr they got robbed of a 2022 world cup spot as well
Unfortunately we seem to be completely unable to score goals as of late. Since beating the Solomons 5-0 back in March 2022 to qualify for the WC playoff against Costa Rica, we've played 10 games and scored in just two of those (2-1 W vs China and 4-1 L vs Sweden). Hopefully the promise of an automatic qualification spot means we get our act together.
I've always wondered, what program do you use to simulate these matches? It got me particularly curious after your Premier League 2023-24 Simulation put Aston Villa in a title race.
yeah i’m curious about that too because i kinda want to do my own just to see who qualifies
It's probably football manager
@@ilikechez3488
Football Manager probably
and they lowkey are in a title race at this point kind of
@@ilikechez3488 probly footy simulator
amazing video, super enjoyable, easily digestible, yet extremely informative. well done!
Amazing video. The next two years will be interesting. Thanks for the education my friend!!!
Amazing work mate. Insane video! Thanks from a freaky football fan to an another.
This is the best TH-cam video i have seen all year. Keep up the good work m8
I'm Malaysian 🥺🇲🇾.. if Malaysia qualifies for the world cup 2026 ..feels like we Win the world cup ..
So sad that South East Asian nations goverent not focusing in football growth.
This. Was. Amazing, I don’t know something about seeing flags just makes videos so satisfying and captivating.
(I have no idea if it’s technically known but I would have liked if dates were also mentioned, like when each round takes place)🙏🏽❤
I don’t think that’s possible as some continents haven’t even had their groups announced. Such as uefa who are still completing euros qualification
The dates are available on Wikipedia if you are still interested
your videos are insane, you are part of the 0.1% of football creators who are informative rather than just outrageous opinions for clicks. Have serious potential to join the upper echolans with James Allcot and Joe Thomlinson if you move into more long form more "TH-camy" videos
Thanks mate! I wouldn't liken myself to those lads aha I don't have anywhere near their level of knowledge about tactics and current players etc.
Thanks for this!
I've been waiting so long for someone to make a video like this and to simulate it😱
I hope Norway can participate it would be a dream come true to see my country play in the tournament live..
have you guys ever qualified?
seeing Malaysia win the group over Oman in the second round of our AFC qualification is already a dream for me
Can you please explain the new format of the Champions League,Europa League & the Conference League,starting from next season?I'm still confused by it.
Yeah me too
Love your channel
South America qualifiers is so hard might as well make top 8 auto qualify and 9th go to play-off. If, let’s say a North American team that qualified (ex. Guatemala, El Salvador) were in CONMEBOL qualifiers they would most likely finish dead last.
Great video
Always love these practical videos, it’s just an amazing program👍❤️
Great video 😊
Amazing video! Thanks
Wow thanks for this video , amazing explanation !
An absolute banger of a video
Very nice video! See you in 3 years to see how good your simulation predicts
Great video! Thanks for that
Brilliant vid lad
great videos man really insane
OFC qualifiers is a goddamn joke, that's basically a garanteed ticket for New Zealand to every world cup from now on.
they dominated olympics qualifiers every time too
Underrated video
Football is the most just sport where every country has to go through qualifiers to qualify doesn't matter whether u r ranked 1 or 200.
Truly global sport ⚽❤️
thank youu, its a good video
Great video, it was actually really fun to watch
I was just wondering, how do you simulate the matches?
im wondering that too.
probs FM
Reply to this with your predictions:
- An underdog that will make their debut ✅
- A giant that will fail to qualify ❌
- The World Cup winner 🏆
Mine are:
- Solomon Islands 🇸🇧
- Croatia 🇭🇷
- England 🏴
Debut: 🇺🇿
Giant to fail: 🇵🇹
Winner: 🇫🇷
- kazachstan
- portugal
- spain
Madagascar
Chile
Uruguay
🇲🇱 Mali ✅️
🇧🇪 Belgium ❌️
🇧🇷 Brasil 🏆
Norway misses the automatic qualification by one point, then goes on to lose the playoff narrowly... This simulation is hauntingly accurate.
This is one of the best videos that explains the entire process
This is why we love the game. A true international spectacle unlike any other
Such a difference when you look at something like rugby world cup qualification and there's only about 30 nations participating!
Brilliant video mate! How do you simulate the matches?
That's a world class video ( I'm a first-time viewer)
Best video I’ve seen explaining the World Cup 2026 format. Loved it! Go Antigua and Barbuda lol that’s me!
The moment my man eliminated belgium and portugal from wc qualifiers i couldn't watch a second of this
India should applied for OFC, as Australia is playing in AFC.
Vietnam and Solomon Islands qualifying at the earliest opportunity for the WC and for the first time ever is wild
My brother put Albania and Serbia in the same group💀
lol he also added Greece and Turkey too 💀
Thank you so much, I was wondering how this new World Cup Qualifying would work and you explained it in a very understandable manner. Now, could you do the same for the actual World Cup itself? I hear it will be played in several groups of 3, with the 1st an 2nd qualifying to the next round and I got really confused.
Nah, they changed that this year due to concerns that teams would collude with each other. Now its 12 groups of 4 teams each. Top 2, plus best 8 third place teams go to the round of 32. Similar to how the Euros do it, but with an extra knockout round.
Panama getting eliminated being the best of the competing countries in the concacaf is a joke
"Malaysia do well in their group" , and now has collected 6 points from 2 games . Goodluck HM
grouping dia memang sama ke dengan sebelum ni?
@@amrrmsa sama mcm draw skrg
The explanation?? Superb dude, well done!!! The simulation?? A lot of opportunities to improve!! But a really good video. Congrats!!
Thank you very much . Hope it become reality From Vietnam 🇻🇳♥️
Amazing vids, what did you you to simulate the game ?
Just beat vietnam TWICE!! replace viet place with indonesia and we are in the world cup for the first time!! Lets fcking gooo
Even you made this video before AFC started their match, your sim even can predict Indonesia group in 2nd round 100% correctly🤯
Thank you
what program did you use to simulate these results?
I really hope hungary qualifies for the 2026 world cup, we have some great talents and a good squad that should be able to get into the World Cup and maybe even get past the group stage
Actually for European nations, qualifying will be a lot harder than passing the groups. We need to be one of the top 16 nations in Europe to qualify, and the World Cup will have 12 groups and the top 2 plus the 8 best 3rd place teams advance. So if we qualify, there's a chance all we need to do to advance is pumping someone like Oman or Salvador.
@@bencebarabas3555 I guess you can say Ye men when you get Oman in your group
@@bencebarabas3555 The european qualifiers should be the same as the asian ones, so the actual good teams of europe have a better chance to qualify.
Szoboszlai will carry that team. BELIEVE
@@af4904 If they are so good, they should not need a better chance to qualify.
What did you use to simulate the qualification??
i like the video thank you
i would like to see a Bangladesh, Palestine or India in World Cup 2026 personally.😮
i know this is a long shot as you explained 😊
Will be tough; two of them they have Australia in their group :)
the inter-continental play-off match regulation with a round robin format participating by rest team from each confederation in 2 group separately
2 teams from CONCACAF
1 team from AFC
1 team from CAF
1 team from CONMEBOL
1 team from OFC
This is some real quality content out here. Keep up the good work 👏💯👍
Giving me hope for El Salvador 🇸🇻. Amazing video, well edited and explained.
6:51 This aged like milk
these aren’t actually predictions 😂😂😂😂 dude just sims
Which program do you use?
What did you use to sim the qualifiers?
That fact that in your simulation Bolivia went through hell on earth to qualify only to not is the most Bolivia thing 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
What do you use to simulate?
Soy argentino 🇦🇷, y sigo de manera continua las diversas eliminatorias asi como otras competencias a nivel selección. Y me parece que este simulador nesecita algunos ajustes, porque por su gran nivel actual y constancia, me cuesta creer que Panamá🇵🇦, Portugal 🇵🇹 o Nueva Zelanda 🇦🇺 queden eliminadas. Y Bolivia 🇧🇴 es candidata a quedar ultima en las eliminatorias Conmebol. Aun asi, fue un video entretenido
I am from Oman the highest ranked country in Asia that never qualified for a World Cup , hopefully we can do it this time ❤️
6:18 Bangladesh isn’t eliminated..they had qualified for Round 2
Did you use an app for the simulation?
Would you be able to make a video on the 2025 club World Cup?
I know my team (Algeria 🇩🇿) qualified easily as 1st of its group but only 20 points in 10 games ?!! We already are a 6 pts in two games so hopefully the reality won’t be as stressful !
But as a fan of football and world cup history a world cup has to have Portugal 🇵🇹, the Netherlands 🇳🇱 and Belgium 🇧🇪, they are the best outsiders and have a great armada of offensive players and defensive rocks throughout generations ! It would be dull without them !
Also as an African, a world cup without Nigeria 🇳🇬, Ivory Coast 🇨🇮 and Cameroon 🇨🇲 definitely decreases our chances of shining in the tournament !
Oh and Ghana 🇬🇭 too ! Remember 2010 ?!
8:07 on "1990" it said Israel, was that an accident or did that actually happen?
I'm a Croat and I would wait before I bet on Croatia qualifying for the WC 2026. We are in serious troubles with forwards. We don't have a single world class forward in the new and middle generation either. That's Dalić's fault who pushes on the pitch and in the team only his favourites players who have privileges other players don't. Even if we would qualify, we'll probably fail already in the group phase. Dalić's contract expires in 2026 so this will be his end.
How do you create these statistics?
South Korea and Japan can’t be in the same group according to their ranking.
But things can change if the likes of Oman, Iraq, UAE, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam did a good job in upcoming Asian Cup, their ranking will go higher and thats would help to get a reasonable Pot in round 3 draw.
Honestly, I feel proud for U.A.E for qualifying but feel super sad for Singapore for being eliminated since the beginning.
In real life, Singapore beat Guam and just played their first 2 matches in round 2
What do the host nations do during qualification windows? Do they play each other or some of the teams who've already been eliminated?
I believe they would be focused on playing friendly matches and the upcoming Copa America (should they qualify on November)
UEFA qualifying stages always have groups consisting of an odd number of teams, so at anytime there are European teams who are free. Hosts may also be try New Zealand as they are expected to be a Pot 4 team coming out of the Oceania qualifying.
India can maximum reach Inter Continental Play Offs
The AFC qualifications are really weordnajd saddening for many nations
Does anyone know how the simulation in this video was done? I’d like to run my own simulations
South Africa hasn't been in the WC for a while🇿🇦
can someone explain the inter-confederation part? what does the meaning of 2 highest rank sides gets to play the next round? what rank?
The FIFA rankings.
6:17 Bangladesh did manage to advance to the second round
Amazing Video But you forgot Kosovo in Europe
African Nations League:
League A - 1st teams, 3 best 2nd teams;
League B - 6 worst 2nd and 6 best 3rd teams;
League C - 3 worst 3rd, 4th and 2 best 5th teams;
League D - 7 worst 5th and 6th teams.
Mali Played In Their First World Cup With Libya And Berindi
Why remove Kosovo from Europe qualification? We're literally competing for euros currently, and have competed for the 2022 world cup. Youve literally just made your video false, by saying that only 53 teams can qualify for the world cup from Europe by not adding Kosovo. It doesn't matter wether or not you think they should be in the playoffs, they are. So good job ruining the validity of your video.
Good guess bro
My random WC teams prediction:
North America:
Jamaica,Costa Rica,Panama Canada,Mexico,USA
South America:
Argentina,Uruguay,Colombia,Ecuador,Brazil,Paraguay.
Europe:
Spain,Germany,England,France,Denmark,Belgium,Croatia,Portugal,Holland,Italy,
Serbia,Norway,Sweden,Ukraine,Hungary,Switzerland
Africa:
Egypt,Senegal,Rwanda,Cameroon,Morocco,Ivory Coast,Algeria,Equatorial Guinea,Comoros.
Asia:
Saudi,South Korea,Japan,Australia,Iran,UAE,Uzbekistan,China
Oceania:
New Zealand
Playoffs:
Venezuela,Ghana.
Coming back to this after 3 years.
Danh sách 48 đội đi dự WC 2026 ở Bắc Mĩ :
CONCACAF: 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽 (chủ nhà ), 🇨🇷🇬🇹🇸🇻🇯🇲
CONMEBOL: 🇧🇷🇦🇷🇨🇴🇪🇨🇵🇾🇺🇾
UEFA: 🏴🏴🇦🇹🇸🇪🇨🇵🇩🇪🇩🇰🇬🇷🇵🇱🇳🇱🇺🇦🇭🇷🇪🇸🇨🇭🇭🇺🇮🇹
CAF: 🇩🇿🇱🇾🇲🇦🇲🇱🇸🇳🇪🇬🇧🇮🇿🇦🇹🇳
AFC: 🇻🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷🇭🇲🇸🇦🇮🇶🇴🇲🇦🇪🇮🇷
OFC: 🇸🇧
OFC will be new zealand
@@rise6955 ok
And ?
9:36 you put solomon islands instead of ukraine and how do you do the simulation
Poland beating Bośnia and then Portugal has to be the worst prediction possible.
How does Netherlands end 3rd in a group with Ireland and Hungary