World Cup 2026 | How EVERY COUNTRY Can Qualify

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

[tylerq-b]

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

[jnyYT]

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 😧

[sn]

New Zealand not qualifying directly from OFC would be the ultimate joke 😂

[GhuIz]

Portugal, Netherlands and Belgium not qualifying is crazy

[titushale]

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

[PhotoFredrik]

Norway misses the automatic qualification by one point, then goes on to lose the playoff narrowly... This simulation is hauntingly accurate.

[KSAOSC]

This is by far the best video to ever explain world cup qualifying, please do this more

[hendisetiawan]

Im from the future, Vietnam not even qualify in Group Stage 😂

[auritrocalebbaroi]

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

[dorinc]

FIFA: So we increase the number of teams fow WC, hope all Confederations will have an equal, simple and transparent qualification system
Asia: YES!

[Damemer]

amazing video, super enjoyable, easily digestible, yet extremely informative. well done!

[thecfclad]

seeing Malaysia win the group over Oman in the second round of our AFC qualification is already a dream for me

[StatsUnited]

Reply to this with your predictions:

- An underdog that will make their debut ✅
- A giant that will fail to qualify ❌
- The World Cup winner 🏆

[yodad]

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.

[Sebas]

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.

[coastalpaladin]

Amazing video. The next two years will be interesting. Thanks for the education my friend!!!

[Electrodragond]

I hope Norway can participate it would be a dream come true to see my country play in the tournament live..

[reecevanwyk]

I've been waiting so long for someone to make a video like this and to simulate it😱

[thebluecat]

India should applied for OFC, as Australia is playing in AFC.

[Jocyril_Cintha]

I'm Malaysian 🥺🇲🇾.. if Malaysia qualifies for the world cup 2026 ..feels like we Win the world cup ..