Which teams have qualified for the 2026 FIFA World Cup and who are out?

Five-time champions Brazil person confirmed their information successful the 2026 FIFA World Cup by defeating Paraguay 1-0, acknowledgment to a extremity by prima guardant Vinicius Jr successful beforehand of a jubilant location assemblage successful Sao Paulo.

Playing nether caller caput manager Carlo Ancelotti, the Selecao went up astatine the changeable of half-time erstwhile the Real Madrid prima recovered the net, overmuch to the delight of the 46,000 fans astatine the Corinthians Arena connected Tuesday.

In different large World Cup qualifying results, war-torn Palestine were near heartbroken erstwhile Oman drew level against them from a punishment converted heavy into stoppage clip successful their Asian Football Confederation (AFC) qualifying lucifer successful Amman, Jordan.

Palestine person been playing their planetary fixtures astatine neutral venues, including Jordan, Kuwait and Qatar. Israel’s warfare connected Gaza, its power and demolition of sports facilities and venues successful Gaza and the occupied West Bank person near the players incapable to question and play astatine their location venue, the Faisal Al-Husseini International Stadium successful ar-Ram, a municipality northeast of occupied Jerusalem.

Needing a triumph to scope the 4th circular of the AFC qualifiers, Palestine led the location broadside done Oday Kharoub’s extremity astatine the extremity of the archetypal half.

The Al-Fidai seemed to person done capable until they conceded a punishment successful the past moments of the match, and Essam al-Subhi’s spot footwear successful the 97th infinitesimal ended the crippled successful a draw, crushing the Palestinian imagination of having different changeable astatine qualification by proceeding to the 4th round.

Oman person present taken up that spot.

Despite their squad warring to support their World Cup imagination live against Palestine, fans successful Oman showed enactment for the visiting broadside arsenic Israel’s warfare rages connected successful Gaza [Ibraheem al-Omari/Reuters]

Which teams person confirmed their qualification for the 2026 FIFA World Cup?

After the latest circular of qualifying matches, present is simply a breakdown of the confirmed contenders from each of the six regions:

Africa: None of the 54 nations progressive successful the qualifiers has been capable to corroborate their spots arsenic the archetypal circular of qualifying matches does not reason until October 16.

Asia: Iran, Uzbekistan, South Korea, Jordan, Australia, Japan.

Europe: None. Similar to Africa, nary of the 54 European teams vying for 16 qualification spots person confirmed their berths arsenic their first-round matches volition tally until November 18.

North, Central American and Caribbean region: Canada, Mexico and USA. With the World Cup big nations taking 3 spots, lone 3 are near up for grabs and volition beryllium decided connected November 18.

Oceania: New Zealand. With 1 spot up for grabs and 11 nations warring for it, New Zealand emerged victorious and took the spot by winning the third-round playoff last against New Caledonia connected March 24.

South America: Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador.

Lionel Messi’s Argentina were amongst the archetypal teams to suffice for the 2026 FIFA World Cup and person a accidental of defending the trophy they won successful Qatar successful 2022 [File: Martin Meissner/AP]

Which large teams person been eliminated from qualification for the 2026 FIFA World Cup?

Chile, third-place finishers successful 1962, are among the biggest names confirmed retired of the adjacent World Cup.

While China are not considered among the shot powerhouses successful Asia, the nation’s absorption connected gathering the crippled astatine location and seeing its squad successful different World Cup since 2002 was crushed connected June 5.

Which teams tin inactive suffice for the 2026 FIFA World Cup?

Apart from the 9 African and 16 European spots inactive afloat up for grabs, the others that are inactive successful the contention for a World Cup spot are:

Asia: Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Iraq, and Oman are vying for the 2 nonstop qualification slots for the World Cup and 1 intercontinental playoffs spot.

South America: Uruguay, Paraguay, Colombia, Venezuela and Bolivia volition combat for the 3 remaining World Cup slots, portion Peru tin lone beforehand to the intercontinental playoffs.

North, Central American and Caribbean region: Honduras, Bermuda, Costa Rica, Trinidad and Tobago, Curacao, Haiti, Panama, Nicaragua, Jamaica, Guatemala, Suriname and El Salvador person each precocious to the 3rd round, from wherever 3 teams volition straight suffice for the World Cup. The 3 second-placed teams from each radical volition past combat for the intercontinental playoffs spot.

Oceania: New Caledonia person qualified for the intercontinental playoffs.

When volition each teams for the 2026 FIFA World Cup beryllium confirmed?

As precocious arsenic March 31, 2026. With the European qualification rounds stretching to March and the intercontinental playoff last besides scheduled for the aforesaid month, we volition not cognize our last 48 teams for the World Cup until little than 3 months up of the tournament.

When is the 2026 FIFA World Cup scheduled?

The tourney begins successful Mexico City connected June 11 and ends with the last successful New Jersey connected July 19.

The MetLife Stadium successful East Rutherford, New Jersey, US, volition big the last of the 2026 FIFA World Cup [File: Seth Wenig/AP Photo]