2026 FIFA Men's Soccer World Cup

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Time for the 2026 FIFA Men's Soccer World Cup, one of the most popular sports events on Tellus!

The 2026 tournament is played in Canada, Mexico and the USA between 11 June and 19 July 2026. For first time in 8 years, the tournament is played at in June and July again.

=Participating teams=
==Group A==
*Mexico
*South Korea
*South Africa
*Czech Republic

==Group B==
*Canada
*Bosnia and Herzegovina
*Qatar
*Switzerland

==Group C==
*Brazil
*Morocco
*Haiti
*Scotland

==Group D==
*USA
*Paraguay
*Australia
*Turkey

==Group E==
*Germany
*Curaçao
*Ivory Coast
*Ecuador

==Group F==
*Netherlands
*Japan
*Sweden
*Tunisia

==Group G==
*Belgium
*Egypt
*Iran
*New Zealand

==Group H==
*Spain
*Cape Verde
*Saudi Arabia
*Uruguay

==Group I==
*France
*Senegal
*Iraq
*Norway

==Group J==
*Argentina
*Algeria
*Austria
*Jordan

==Group K==
*Portugal
*DR Congo (Congo-Brazzaville)
*Uzbekistan
*Colombia

==Group L==
*England
*Croatia
*Ghana
*Panama

=Broadcasting television networks=
*Sweden: SVT, TV4 Sweden
*UK: BBC, ITV, STV
*USA: Fox Sports, Telemundo

[Barkworm]

Haven‘t bothered with the FIFA‘s disgusting cesspool of commercialism and corruption in more than a decade. But the list of host countries for the last three tournaments is an appropiate fit (sans Canada; that‘s some company you‘ve got yourself into there…).

[sdp]

Originally Posted by Barkworm

Haven‘t bothered with the FIFA‘s disgusting cesspool of commercialism and corruption in more than a decade. But the list of host countries for the last three tournaments is an appropiate fit (sans Canada; that‘s some company you‘ve got yourself into there…).

What's wrong with Mexico? I didn't see Canada inviting or letting Iran's team play their games there.

[Barkworm]

Originally Posted by sdp

What's wrong with Mexico?

You mean apart from the ongoing drug war and the outrageous femicide rate? The amount of obese children.

[sdp]

all countries have problems and are doing their best to deal with it, Canada has the whole indigenous reconciliation, healthcare access issue, immigrant integration crisis. What makes a country "good enough" to host the world cup?
Are other countries not allowed to have it?

Germany exporting large amounts of plastic waste to other countries for example, in Mexico there's a big controversy right now over German companies coming to do their dirty stuff there instead of Germany and building ammonia plant polluting the environmetn. So Germany wouldn't be eligible?

[Barkworm]

Sure! See my point above, a country being sh*tty makes it a great fit for FIFA. We hosted the World Cup 20 years ago and that was primarily because of the amount of bribes officials here paid.