The Stage is Set! Complete List of All 48 World Cup Teams
The stage for the best sporting event on the planet is set. The world will tune in this summer for soccer's biggest event as the 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off on June 11. Spread across three countries and 16 cities, we'll witness 48 teams strive for glory and immortality. The full field is now...
The stage for the best sporting event on the planet is set. The world will tune in this summer for soccer's biggest event as the 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off on June 11. Spread across three countries and 16 cities, we'll witness 48 teams strive for glory and immortality.

The full field is now complete. Here's the complete list of teams across the 12 groups that will be competing at the World Cup. All 104 tournament matches will air live across FOX (
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Every match will be available in 4K on FOX One and most major Pay TV providers. For the first time ever, there will be three countries hosting the World Cup — the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Only once in the tournament's history have there been co-hosts, with the 2002 edition being held in South Korea and Japan.
Eleven cities will be hosting the tournament in the U.S. including Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, New York/New Jersey, Philadelphia, Seattle and the San Francisco Bay Area. Canadian cities, Toronto and Vancouver, will also host games with three Mexican cities — Monterrey, Guadalajara and Mexico City — also included. For 2026, the majority of the 104 matches will be held in the U.S., with 78 games spread across 11 cities.
Canada (two cities) and Mexico (three cities) will have 13 matches each. Mexico South Korea South Africa Czechia Canada Switzerland Qatar Bosnia & Herzegovina Brazil Morocco Scotland Haiti United States Australia Paraguay Türkiye Germany Ecuador Ivory Coast Curaçao Netherlands Japan Tunisia Sweden Belgium Iran Egypt New Zealand Spain Uruguay Saudi Arabia Cape Verde France Senegal Norway Iraq Argentina Austria Algeria Jordan Portugal Colombia Uzbekistan Congo DR England Croatia Panama Ghana
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