Countries That Could Miss The World Cup in 2026

[NanobanaKinako]

Brazil not being in the next World Cup will definitely be the absolute shocker. Even non-football fans will be surprised.

[FireWire]

Imagine Italy misses their third World Cup

[ChillyDudeYT]

nigeria behind lesotho is like france behind san marino 💀

[GOAT-hs]

From caf runners up to dissapointment in qualifiers 😮

[shujinkoMK]

As a Peruvian, we only scored one goal in our last 10 official matches and that was a draw against Venezuela at home. We are as good as eliminated

[kacperdadela]

Brazil is in a bad form, but those 4 teams below them are also in a bad form. So I don't think it's likely that they'll fall below 6th place. And even if they fall to 7th, they shouldn't have problems with intercontinental play-offs

[Realfan]

Fun fact! Peru's manager states that he believes Peru is going in the right direction and will not change any of the call ups, meaning we'll still have 12/26 of our players being 30+

Spare a thought for the Peruvians

[Fratema]

As an Italian I have been sick to my stomach for months and for the first time I didn’t care about the euros. We have to qualify I’m 26… I haven’t seen Italy play a knockout game since I was 8 years old. I feel like I’m in a nightmare. We must qualify 😭

[ezraezra]

Although not already started, the European Qualifiers of the World Cup will be interesting to watch. We could have a big surprises like Italy, England, and France missing out the World Cup, given their recent Euro campaigns. England had lost Gareth Southgate as a manager and France were underwhelmed with only 1 open goal in the Euro (during the semifinal vs Spain). Also, we could have the likes of Norway, Georgia, and Turkey playing in the World Cup with their best players like Erling Haaland, Martin Odegaard, Arda Guler, and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia.

[kevincika]

I do expect surprises in African qualifiers with the new format.

[robertoorrego]

Im Peruvian, watched every game and its actually sickening how bad they've gotten. I am depression

[Chris_soccer_editz]

I’m so sad as a Brazilian that the beautiful game is coming to an end😢

[verspin]

As a polish man I was waiting to hear about Poland lol. I guess I could see tho why we're here at the beginning with Italy

[rodrigorodriguesdelgado.]

As a Brazilian, Dorival will help us a lot, he had some great seasons with flamengo and São Paulo, two of the biggest clubs in Brazil.

[pedro]

i'm brazilian, we'll never be left out of a world cup. we are brazil

[guibif]

Brazil will always qualify. It's so easy for them. Unlike in Europe where countries like Italy, Sweden, Austria will miss qualification by a point

[viniciusdaniel]

Brazil barely qualified for 2002 but still won tho

[ADK_]

Nations league gained more importance because of the extended format

Now there will be 12 qualifying groups in europe instead of 10 each group with 4 or 5 teams

8 quarterfinalists from nations league + 4 best ranked teams in nations league will be allocated in 12 groups ( like England for example who are in League B )

12 group winners will qualify directly for the WC and 12 runners up + 4 best ranked nations league teams who didn't finish in top 2 in WC qualifying making it 16 teams competing in 4 groups for 4 remaining UEFA spots for the WC

This is for the ppl who are calling nations league a waste of time and friendlies 💀

[chaleyboy]

Peru in last place is not shocking tbh, but they still should be higher.

[ZannyG_StandFree]

Nigeria are such a vibe, they'd better qualify