{"id":172027,"date":"2025-11-16T08:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T08:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/which-teams-are-qualified-for-2026-world-cup-full-list-latest-updates-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T08:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T08:14:09","slug":"which-teams-are-qualified-for-2026-world-cup-full-list-latest-updates-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/which-teams-are-qualified-for-2026-world-cup-full-list-latest-updates-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Which teams are qualified for 2026 World Cup? Full list, latest updates &#8211; USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quarter of the <a href=\/sports\/soccer\/world-cup\/ target=_blank rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=:b|e|k|\u2691u class=gnt_ar_b_a>2026 World Cup<\/a>&#8216;s can be secured over the next three days.<br \/>In Europe, nine of UEFA&#8217;s 16 total World Cup spots can be secured during games played Nov. 16-18. In Concacaf, the three host nations \u2014 Canada, Mexico and the United States \u2014 are automatic qualifiers, but three others spots are up for grabs with seven squads still in contention.<br \/>So far, 30 nations have punched tickets to next summer&#8217;s 48-team tournament.<br \/>Here&#8217;s what to know about where qualifying stands for the 2026 World Cup, including which nations could secure berths next:<br \/>The 2026 World Cup will include 48 teams, a huge jump up from the 32 that participated in Qatar 2022. As November&#8217;s qualifiers play out, 30 nations have qualified.<br \/>Here is a complete list of every country to qualify for the 2026 World Cup:<br \/>Qualification is nearing its conclusion (the World Cup draw is Dec. 5, after all). Each confederation&#8217;s schedule and process mean each continent wraps up at different points \u2013 for example, spots in Africa, Asia and South America already have been claimed.<br \/>Here is a complete breakdown of how FIFA divided all 48 berths at the 2026 World Cup:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMivgFBVV95cUxQUWszRWJZeHVDbklDM1R5MXJJX0hfMThDazJZdnUwRDhfblpBWFd0NGt1Z0x5VDE2UGdIR0R2cHkyWWdocTQ0WldBTzVXaFRHZUlNOXNoT21EejI1LUswSHZOQXdGZktNcmRfS2NxVF9xZVlrYkZUU09GNTV5M09oWjR2MHR5MHFZLVZoT1pqeGZab05UUXFkT0lpRFFLZERJNE9XUkVJWm9NR0pnZWV2QkdNX2RHcmJ4QnlPZTNB?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quarter of the 2026 World Cup&#8216;s can be secured over the next three days.In Europe, nine of UEFA&#8217;s 16 total World Cup spots can be secured during games played Nov. 16-18. In Concacaf, the three host nations \u2014 Canada, Mexico and the United States \u2014 are automatic qualifiers, but three others spots are up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}