The line-up for the FIFA World Cup 2026™ has been completed with six teams clinching the remaining places among the 48 that will make the upcoming tournament in North America the most inclusive ever.
Iraq was the last team to qualify, defeating Bolivia in the FIFA World Cup 2026 Play-Off Tournament at Monterrey Stadium, Mexico, to earn the final spot in Group I alongside France, Senegal, and Norway.
A day of high drama began in Europe, where Czechia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Türkiye, and Sweden came through gripping play-off games to claim a place in FIFA World Cup 2026 Groups A (Czechia), B (Bosnia and Herzegovina), D (Türkiye), and F (Sweden) respectively.
The focus then switched across the Atlantic to Mexico, where the FIFA World Cup 2026 co-hosts provided the stage on which the remaining two places were determined. Fans of DR Congo can now look forward to seeing their team play Portugal on June 17 in Houston, Texas, after they defeated Jamaica 1-0 in Guadalajara to clinch the final spot in Group K.
The FIFA World Cup 2026 Play-Off Tournament also served as the ideal dress rehearsal for the venues in Guadalajara and Monterrey, which will host eight FIFA World Cup 2026 games between them, as they welcomed a total of 163,799 fans for four matches over the two matchdays.
Now, an unprecedented cast of 48 teams can prepare for the 104 matches that will be played across the 16 Host Cities in Canada, Mexico, and the United States from June 11 to July 19. Tickets are still available via the tournament’s last-minute sales phase. Tickets will be made available to the general public on a first-come, first-served basis at FIFA.com/tickets from 11:00 AM ET/17:00 CET on Wednesday, 1 April 2026.
Additionally, an estimated six billion people globally are expected to engage with the competition through various mediums as the biggest standalone sporting event of all time proves, once again, how football unites the world.
Following the conclusion of qualifying, the match schedule for the biggest FIFA World Cup ever has been updated. In addition to the groups being finalised and the match schedule confirmed, the kick-off time for the match between Türkiye and Paraguay on June 19 in the San Francisco Bay Area has been moved one hour earlier and will now begin at 11:00 PM ET. As a result, the preceding match between Brazil and Haiti in Philadelphia has been moved 30 minutes earlier and will now start at 8:30 PM ET.