22 teams participating in the 2026 World Cup

Co-hosts: USA, Canada and Mexico: With no qualifiers to play, the three co-hosts are scrambling to find friendly opponents to hone their World Cup squads. The USA will face Australia, Paraguay and Uruguay in the coming weeks.

Asia: Australia, Iran, Japan, Jordan, South Korea, Uzbekistan: Jordan is the new representative of Asia participating for the first time in the world football festival, while Australia, Iran, Japan, South Korea are familiar teams. Recently, fans have also witnessed the remarkable progress of Uzbekistan football.

Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Ghana, Morocco, Tunisia, Cape Verde: The African qualifying round witnessed a miracle called Cape Verde. The team ranked 70th in the world, with a total squad value of only 27.2 million euros, excellently ranked above Cameroon to win the first World Cup ticket in history.

South America: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay: Despite not having a truly convincing performance, Brazil is still proud to be the only country in South America to have participated in every World Cup in history.

Oceania: New Zealand: Chris Wood and his teammates had no opponents in the Oceania qualifying round, thereby bringing home the first World Cup ticket since 2010 for the "Kiwi".

Tonight and early tomorrow morning (October 15), the owners of the last two tickets to the 2026 World Cup in the African qualifying round will be revealed. The chances are divided equally between Benin, South Africa (Group C) and Ivory Coast, Gabon (Group F).

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