Follow along for live updates from the 2026 FIFA World Cup on Sunday. Get the latest news, results and highlights from the 48-team, 39-day tournament.

Group I looks like one of the strongest groups at the 2026 World Cup, with France, Senegal, Iraq and Norway all bringing very different challenges. France will arrive as the clear favourites and one of the teams expected to go deep into the tournament,

We're into day four of the World Cup and boy are we motoring through the games now. Already we find ourselves looking ahead to Group F fixtures later today, including arguably the competition's most intriguing side,

In an exclusive interview, Martina described how an island, roughly the size of Bakersfield, will become the smallest nation to ever play in the FIFA World Cup when it makes its debut against Germany in Houston on Sunday, June 14 at 10 a.m. What happens next? The way Martina sees it, “everything becomes possible.”

Curaçao's Livano Comenencia provided a highlight and hope for the smallest country in World Cup history. Germany then responded to Curaçao's first World Cup goal with an onslaught of scoring, turning an expected rout into an actual one with a 7-1 win on Sunday in Houston.

Aleksander Ceferin said the World Cup's expansion from 32 teams to 48 makes for "completely uninteresting". games. James Manning/Pool/AFP via Thirteen federations of nations competing at this year’s men’s World Cup have said they deserve “respect” and they reject UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin’s recent criticism of the new 48-team format.

Curacao is the World Cup's smallest country in terms of size — about the size of New Orleans — and population, with roughly 156,000 residents. It got into the 48-team bracket by going 4-0 in the opening round of qualifying and 3-0-3 in the next round.

There are a record number of teams that qualified for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Here is every country participating in soccer's biggest global event.