It’s virtually time for the ball to start out rolling on the 2026 World Cup.
And OneFootball is beginning to spotlight the main points of every of the 12 teams within the largest World Cup in historical past, with 48 nationwide groups.
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The highest two groups in every group will advance to the pre-round of 16, together with the eight greatest third-placed groups.
See under how the representatives of Teams A and B are shaping up and have your say: who ought to qualify?
🏆 Group A
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🇨🇿 Czechia
Match Schedule:
June 11 – 4pm – Mexico vs South Africa
June 11 – 11pm – South Korea vs Czechia
June 18 – 2pm – Czechia vs South Africa
June 19 – 12am – Mexico vs South Korea
June 24 – TBC: Mexico vs Czechia / South Africa vs South Korea
Mexico is ready for its 18th World Cup look. It has performed in each match since 1994.
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It reached the quarter-finals in 1970 and once more in 1986. Precisely within the editions it hosted. That’s its nice “trump card.”
The squad referred to as up by Javier Aguirre options ten gamers who’ve already made greater than 50 appearances for El Tri.
Ochoa is heading to his sixth World Cup – he’ll share the document with and .
The assault additionally options one other veteran: Raúl Jiménez, the nationwide staff’s third-highest scorer with 44 objectives.
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South Africa will probably be Mexico’s opponent within the opening match – repeating what occurred in 2010, when it hosted the World Cup.
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It’s going to play in solely its fourth World Cup after 1994, 1998 and the aforementioned match gained by .
The spot got here because of successful its tightly contested qualifying group – ending forward of .
The large mission is to achieve the knockout stage for the primary time.
Ten of the 26 called-up gamers play for golf equipment within the nation. The rebuild has been important, as solely three have greater than 50 caps.
That’s the case for , and .
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South Korea will play in its eleventh consecutive World Cup – all since 1986. Its debut got here in 1954.
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Qualification got here comfortably with an unbeaten marketing campaign within the qualifiers.
Its best second got here in 2002, when it co-hosted with and reached the semi-finals.
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It’s banking on the power of a squad filled with skilled gamers and led by , previously of Tottenham and now at , (Bayern), (Feyenoord), (Mainz) and (Wolves).
Czechia, in the meantime, will play in solely its second World Cup as an unbiased nation after making its debut in 2006.
Together with its document as Czechoslovakia (eight appearances), its greatest campaigns have been the runners-up finishes in 1934 and 1962 to and , respectively.
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After seeing dominate the group, it needed to get previous and within the European playoffs.
Home soccer contributed 17 gamers. Together with veteran , 35, who performs for Hradec Králové after an extended spell in .
The primary standouts play overseas: and Hložek (Hoffenheim), Soucek () and (Leverkusen).
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🏆 Group B
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🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Match Schedule:
June 12 – 4pm – Canada vs Bosnia
June 13 – 4pm – Qatar vs Switzerland
June 18 – 4pm – Switzerland vs Bosnia
June 18 – 7pm – Canada vs Qatar
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June 24 – TBC: Switzerland vs Canada and Bosnia vs Qatar
Canada is heading to solely the third World Cup in its historical past after the 1986 and 2022 editions.
And it has not less than one mission as a bunch nation: win a match, because it has six defeats in six video games performed.
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Two of its key figures didn’t have the season they anticipated and arrive below stress. That’s the case for , who struggled with accidents at Bayern, and , who scored solely 9 objectives for in 25/26.
Switzerland is heading to its thirteenth World Cup after topping its qualifying group.
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Its aim is not less than to enhance on its most up-to-date campaigns, which ended within the spherical of 16.
Its greatest performances got here within the 1934, 1938 and 1954 editions, when it went out within the quarter-finals below a distinct competitors format.
There is no such thing as a scarcity of expertise within the called-up squad. and Ricardo Rodriguez are the all-time look leaders for the nationwide staff – 145 and 137, respectively.
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After internet hosting the final World Cup, Qatar secured its first qualification for a World Cup, with loads of drama.
It completed fourth in its group after which superior by getting the higher of the United Arab Emirates and Oman.
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Solely defender doesn’t play within the nation, as he seems for Spain’s Cultural Leonesa.
(picture) is Qatar’s nice hope alongside No. 10 Hassan Al-Haydos and striker .
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Bosnia and Herzegovina was Italy’s nice villain within the playoffs, leaving the Azzurra out of its third straight World Cup.
It is going to be its second World Cup (it performed in 2014) after not being a part of Yugoslavia.
Yugoslavia performed in eight World Cup editions earlier than 1992. It was a semi-finalist in 1930 and completed fourth in 1962.
It additionally gave rise to 5 different international locations: Serbia, Montenegro (which have been even a single nation between 2003 and 2006), Croatia, Macedonia (now North Macedonia) and Slovenia. Later, Kosovo turned unbiased from Serbia in 2008.
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Bosnia’s nice reference level is . He’s its all-time chief in appearances (148) and objectives (73).
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Kolasinac, and Demirović are different standouts.
Solely third-choice goalkeeper Mladen Jurkas, 18, performs within the nation.
This text was translated into English by Synthetic Intelligence.