he USA-Canada-Mexico World Cup 2026 It will be unprecedented and different from all its predecessors due to the participation of 48 teams and thus the group draw Which will be held on Friday from two in the afternoon. (Argentine time) at the Kennedy Center in Washington and will be broadcast live on television in Argentina by TyC Sports, Telefé, DSports and Public TV.
The teams were divided into four pots of 12 members each according to their position in the FIFA rankings. In the first, the three host nations plus the nine best-ranked teams: Spain, Argentina, Brazil, England, France, Portugal, Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. They will all be seeded in each of the four regions with Mexico in Group A, Canada in Group B and the United States in Group D. The rest will be placed in the other groups by chance.
In it Second list There are teams that have great strength and can surprise, including Morocco and Croatia who reached the semi-finals in Qatar 2022, and the Europeans also reached the finals in Russia 2018. South America also includes Colombia, Uruguay and Ecuador, among others. In it drum 3, Meanwhile, there is Paraguay. The competitors with the best potential are Norway, which topped the European qualifiers, Scotland and Ivory Coast.
finally, On 4 Smaller caliber equipment is included with Ghana as the strongest At least until the qualifiers are decided because important teams such as Italy, Poland, Denmark, Turkey and Sweden can join. From South America, Bolivia will seek to enter the World Cup through the international playoff, in which it will face Suriname, and if it wins, it will face Iraq.
No region will have more than one country in each union, with the exception of Europe. Since there will be 16 UEFA representatives, there will be a minimum of one team per region and a maximum of two. The rule also applies to teams entering from international qualifiers, so, for example, a FIFA 2 place cannot be placed in the Argentina-Brazil group because Bolivia can take it.
Furthermore, regarding direct elimination intersections, FIFA created the change to “ensure competitive balance.” With this goal, he explained that “two separate schedules will be created until the semi-finals in the match calendar,” and restrictions will be applied “to achieve a balanced distribution of teams.” Therefore, the top two teams in the FIFA rankings, Spain and Argentina, will be placed one on each side of the table should they top their respective regions and will only be able to face each other in the meta. France and England, the third and fourth places in the international rankings, will also share one point for each side of the table, as long as they control their groups.