Look away now: Podcast 633 - Our World Cup 2026 draw
As we've done since the earliest days of the podcast, we've conducted our own version of the draw for the 2026 World Cup in North America . This tournament is unlike any other before with 48 teams and three host nations. For our draw, we used the same process that FIFA has used in the past, restriciting one team per confederation to each group (two for UEFA) and randomly selecting a team's psoition in the group. For constraints purposes, we treated the interconfederation play-off winners as the seeded nations - DR Congo for pathway 1 and Iraq for pathway 2 (this was the system used for the Women's World Cup 2023 draw). Here's how our draw came out: GROUP A: Mexico (co-hosts), UEFA play-off C winner, Qatar, Senegal GROUP B: Canada (co-hosts), South Korea, UEFA play-off D winner, Tunisia GROUP C: Brazil, Algeria, Haiti, Iran GROUP D: USA (co-hosts), Scotland, Interconfederation play-off 2 winner, Uruguay GROUP E: Belgium, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Austria G...
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