{"id":187,"date":"2025-11-21T15:28:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/?p=187"},"modified":"2025-11-21T17:19:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:19:27","slug":"usa-today-which-teams-are-qualified-for-2026-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/news\/usa-today-which-teams-are-qualified-for-2026-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Today &#8211; Which teams are qualified for 2026 World Cup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_188\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-188\" class=\"wp-image-188 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Team.jpg\" alt=\"Belgium national football team's 7-0 victory over Liechtenstein\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Team.jpg 960w, https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Team-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Team-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Nicolas Tucat, Agence France-Presse<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The 2026 World Cup will include 48 teams, a huge jump up from the 32 that participated in Qatar 2022. Following November&#8217;s qualifiers, 42 nations have qualified.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a complete list of every country to qualify for the 2026 World Cup:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Host nations:<\/strong> Canada, Mexico, United States<\/li>\n<li><strong>Asia:<\/strong> Australia, Iran, Japan, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Uzbekistan<\/li>\n<li><strong>Africa:<\/strong> Algeria, Cape Verde, Egypt, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Morocco, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia<\/li>\n<li><strong>Concacaf:<\/strong> Curac\u0327ao, Haiti, Panama<\/li>\n<li><strong>Europe:<\/strong> Austria, Belgium, Croatia, England, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland<\/li>\n<li><strong>Oceania:<\/strong> New Zealand<\/li>\n<li>S<strong>outh America:<\/strong> Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"btn btn-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/soccer\/2025\/11\/18\/world-cup-2026-qualified-teams-concacaf-uefa\/87344433007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View the Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 World Cup will include 48 teams, a huge jump up from the 32 that participated in Qatar 2022. Following November&#8217;s qualifiers, 42 nations have qualified. Here is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co.ocean.nj.us\/WorldCup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}