Uzbekistan World Cup 2026 Squad: The First

Australia World Cup 2026 Squad: The Convert

South Africa World Cup 2026 Squad: Bafana Bafana Return After Sixteen Years

Türkiye World Cup 2026 Squad: Too Young to Remember

Saudi Arabia World Cup 2026 Squad: The Moment and What Comes After

Paraguay World Cup 2026 Squad: One Point

Qatar World Cup 2026 Squad: Earned, Not Given

Jordan World Cup 2026 Squad: The First Time

Mexico World Cup 2026 Squad: The Quinto Partido

Iran World Cup 2026 Squad: Without Azmoun

Iraq World Cup 2026 Squad: The Last Team In

Ecuador World Cup 2026 Squad: The Golden Generation Gets Its Chance

Ghana World Cup 2026 Squad: Unfinished Business

Czechia World Cup 2026 Squad: Twenty Years Away

Canada World Cup 2026 Squad: Day to Day

Uruguay World Cup 2026 Squad: Without Suárez, Without Cavani, Without Excuses

Algeria World Cup 2026 Squad: The Return of Les Fennecs

Argentina World Cup 2026 Squad: Sixty-Four Years Later

Panama World Cup 2026 Squad: Eight Years On

Netherlands World Cup 2026 Squad: Without Simons, Without Schouten, Still Here

USMNT World Cup 2026 Squad: No Excuses

Colombia's World Cup 2026 Squad: The Return of Los Cafeteros

Morocco World Cup 2026 Squad: The Atlas Lions After Regragui

Spain's World Cup 2026 Squad: The End of an Era, the Beginning of Another

Tunisia World Cup 2026 Squad: Eagles of Carthage

DR Congo World Cup 2026 Squad: The Last Ticket

New Zealand World Cup 2026 Squad: The All Whites Return

Haiti World Cup 2026 Squad: Fifty-Two Years

Cape Verde World Cup 2026 Squad: Blue Sharks

Curaçao World Cup 2026 Squad: The Smallest Island

Austria World Cup 2026 Squad: Twenty-Eight Years Later

Sweden World Cup 2026 Squad: The Great Escape

Ivory Coast World Cup 2026 Squad: The Elephants Without Their Striker

Switzerland World Cup 2026 Squad: The Glass Ceiling

Japan World Cup 2026 Squad: Breaking the Ceiling

South Korea World Cup 2026 Squad: Son's Last Dance

Belgium World Cup 2026 Squad: The Last Golden Light

Bosnia and Herzegovina World Cup 2026 Squad: The Penalty That Changed Everything

France World Cup 2026 Squad: Encore Une Fois

England World Cup 2026 Squad: The Ones Left Behind

Portugal World Cup 2026 Squad: 27+1

Egypt World Cup 2026 Squad: Two Short

Senegal World Cup 2026 Squad: Les Lions de Mané

Croatia World Cup 2026 Squad: Forty and Eighteen

Scotland World Cup 2026 Squad: Déjà Vu

Germany World Cup 2026 Squad: He Retired. Then He Didn't.

Norway World Cup 2026 Squad: Haaland's First

Brazil World Cup 2026 Squad: If He Deserves to Play

Mexico Finally Have a Forward Line to Match the Back Line

For three weeks Mexico convinced everyone they could defend. Against Ecuador, they convinced everyone they could attack — and ended a 40-year knockout drought at the Azteca doing it.

The Group Stage Is Over. Now the World Cup Gets Honest.

Three weeks proved the gap between the giants and everyone else had closed. The knockout rounds are where we find out whether closed means gone — because single-elimination is where the favorites have always reasserted themselves.

The Fear Is Gone

The expanded World Cup was supposed to protect the giants. Instead it revealed how little protection they had left — and how quietly the gap had already closed.

Messi Stands Alone — and the World Cup Finds Its Shape

Eighteen goals across six tournaments. A record that stood for twelve years, broken in Dallas. And around it, a group stage that has already rearranged everything we thought we knew.

The Same Match, Sixteen Years Later

Mexico vs South Africa opens the 2026 World Cup at the Azteca on June 11 — the same fixture, the same date, the same coach. The stadium has hosted Pelé and Maradona. Now it hosts the question of whether anything has changed.

The 48 Stories of the 2026 World Cup

Every nation at the World Cup is carrying something onto the pitch that has nothing to do with tactics. These are the 48 stories that will define the tournament.

The 25 Best World Cup 2026 Kits Worth Owning

More than 100 jerseys across 48 teams and 13 manufacturers. These are the shirts worth owning — and the ones that will sell out before the knockout rounds.

How to Watch World Cup 2026: Every Match, Every Screen

104 matches across 39 days and three countries. Here is where every one of them lives — on TV, in Spanish, streaming free, and in person.

World Cup 2026 Predictions: Who Advances From Every Group

The group guide asked the questions. This is where we answer them. Every group winner, every runner-up, every team going home early.

World Cup 2026: The Eleven to Watch

One goalkeeper short of a team sheet: eleven players who will decide how this World Cup is remembered — picked by what the data says, not just the shirt.

The 48-Team World Cup, Explained

Twelve groups, a brand-new Round of 32, and third-place math that will decide somebody's summer. The first format change in a generation, explained in five minutes.

World Cup 2026: The Complete Group-by-Group Guide

48 teams. 12 groups. 104 matches. The largest World Cup in history starts June 11. Here is every group, every team, and every question the tournament needs to answer.

The Best Bars in Kansas City to Watch the World Cup

It calls itself the Soccer Capital of America, plays in the loudest stadium on earth, and smokes the best barbecue on the planet. Kansas City does not arrive at the World Cup quietly — and here is where to watch it.

The Best Bars in Atlanta to Watch the World Cup

Atlanta did not inherit its soccer culture. It built one from nothing in a decade — and now the city in the forest hosts a World Cup semifinal. Here is where to watch it.

The Best Bars in Boston to Watch the World Cup

The stadium is in Foxborough. The football is in Boston. Twenty-two miles separate them — and the city has spent its sporting life proving distance does not matter.

The Best Bars to Watch the World Cup 2026 in New York

MetLife Stadium hosts eight World Cup matches this summer. Here's where New York's soccer faithful will be watching the rest of them.

The Best Bars in Monterrey to Watch the World Cup

Mexico's industrial capital watches football the way it does everything else: intensely, loudly, and with the Sierra Madre as a backdrop.

The Best Bars in Guadalajara to Watch the World Cup

Guadalajara is not Mexico's capital. It is Mexico's football city. The World Cup's second Mexican venue is in a place that has never needed an excuse to care about the sport.

The Best Bars in Toronto to Watch the World Cup

BMO Field hosts six matches. Canada opens the tournament at home against Bosnia. Toronto — where more than half the population was born in another country — may be the most World Cup-ready city on the continent.

The Best Bars in Vancouver to Watch the World Cup

BC Place hosts five matches, including two Canada fixtures. Toronto looks toward Europe and the Caribbean. Vancouver looks across the Pacific. That distinction shapes everything about how this city watches football.

The Best Bars in San Francisco to Watch the World Cup

Levi's Stadium hosts six matches in Santa Clara — 45 miles south of the city. San Francisco's football bars have been opening before dawn for decades. The commute is new. The commitment is not.

The Best Bars in Seattle to Watch the World Cup

Lumen Field hosts six matches, including USA vs Australia. Seattle has been a football city since 1974. The bars reflect that.

The Best Bars in Philadelphia to Watch the World Cup

Lincoln Financial Field hosts six matches — including Brazil vs Haiti and France vs Iraq. Philadelphia has more Irish pubs per capita than any city should. For the World Cup, that turns out to be an advantage.

The Best Bars in Miami to Watch the World Cup

Hard Rock Stadium hosts seven matches this summer, including a quarterfinal and the third-place match. These are the bars where Miami watches football.

The Best Bars in Paris to Watch the World Cup

France are the tournament's co-favorites. Paris does not have sports bars. What it has is 12,000 cafés, a fan zone on the Seine, and neighborhoods where every diaspora community has its own national team.

The Best Bars in London to Watch the World Cup

Five hundred pubs will show the World Cup this summer. England play all three group matches at night. These are the ones worth crossing London for.

The Best Bars in Dallas to Watch the World Cup

AT&T Stadium hosts eight matches, including a quarterfinal. Dallas has not hosted the World Cup since 1994. The bars have been waiting.

The Best Bars in Houston to Watch the World Cup

NRG Stadium hosts seven matches this summer — including a Round of 16 match on the Fourth of July. Houston's East Downtown is the epicenter.

The Best Bars in Mexico City to Watch the World Cup

The Azteca hosts the opening match on June 11 — the third time it has opened a World Cup. Mexico City does not need a stadium to watch football. Every cantina is a venue. Every corner is a screen.

The Best Bars in Buenos Aires to Watch the World Cup

Argentina are the defending champions. Buenos Aires does not watch the World Cup in bars. It watches the World Cup in the streets. The bars are for everything else.

The Best Bars to Watch the World Cup 2026 in Los Angeles

Eight matches. Two USA games. A quarterfinal. And a city with more football cultures than any other host. Here's where to be when you're not in the stadium.

The Fan's Guide to Guadalajara for the World Cup

The Fan's Guide to Monterrey for the World Cup

The Fan's Guide to Toronto for the World Cup

The Fan's Guide to Vancouver for the World Cup

The Fan's Guide to Houston for the World Cup

The Fan's Guide to Philadelphia for the World Cup

The Fan's Guide to Boston for the World Cup

The Fan's Guide to Kansas City for the World Cup

The Fan's Guide to San Francisco for the World Cup

The Fan's Guide to Seattle for the World Cup

The Fan's Guide to Atlanta for the World Cup

The Fan's Guide to Los Angeles for the World Cup

The Fan's Guide to Miami for the World Cup

The Fan's Guide to Dallas for the World Cup

The Fan's Guide to Mexico City for the World Cup

The Fan's Guide to New York for the World Cup

8,060 Days

Arsenal are Premier League champions for the first time since 2004. The title was confirmed on Bournemouth's pitch, in Bournemouth's game, decided by Bournemouth's teenager. The wait is over. It does not feel the way anyone expected it to feel.

The Imitation Game

Five games left. A game in hand. At the Etihad today, Guardiola is closing the way he always closes. The question — again — is whether Arteta has an answer.

One More to Go

Arsenal beat Burnley 1-0 at the Emirates. Havertz headed in Saka's corner. The margin between where Arsenal are and where they could have been was, at several points on Monday night, almost nothing at all.

A Game of Chicken

Manchester City are two points behind Arsenal with ten days left. Pep Guardiola is still pressing the accelerator. Nobody has turned the wheel yet.

Four Minutes and Seventeen Seconds

The VAR decision that disallowed West Ham's equalizer against Arsenal was correct. That is almost beside the point.

Nervous Nineties

The Premier League is in an idiom borrowed from another sport. Five teams know exactly what it means.

Glorious Mourning

Barcelona beat Real Madrid 2-0 to clinch La Liga. The football was done in 18 minutes. Hansi Flick's father had died that morning.

The Season Was Already Won. El Clásico Still Matters.

Barcelona have 88 points and an eleven-point cushion. The mathematics of La Liga are settled. And yet Saturday's match at the Bernabéu carries something harder to quantify.

One in a Hundred

Antoine Semenyo's backheel in the 72nd minute won Manchester City the FA Cup. It was the only thing that happened all afternoon. It was enough.

Wembley, Again

Manchester City are in their fourth consecutive FA Cup final. No club has ever done that. They have also lost the last two. Today, against Chelsea, both of those things are true at once.