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2026 world cup 21:10 - Oct 31 with 1723 viewsGeoffSentence

48 team tournament

2900 miles from Eastern most venue (new york) to western most (san francisco)

2900 mile from southern most (mexico city) to northern most (vancouver)

It's big, fecking big. Not great for the fans I'd say.

Don't boil a kettle on a boat.
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2026 world cup on 21:15 - Oct 31 with 1698 viewsbluelagos

Long gone are the days of a country being based in one city for the group phase. Wonder if they might reintroduce it considering the distances involved?

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2026 world cup on 21:59 - Oct 31 with 1621 viewsiamatractorboy

I think I'm right in saying the first round will be 16 groups of 3 teams, with 2 going through from each group. This is stupid as it leaves it open to collusion if the two playing the final game need a draw (or more specifically a scoring draw) to send them both through.
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2026 world cup on 22:10 - Oct 31 with 1577 viewsquirkie

2026 world cup on 21:59 - Oct 31 by iamatractorboy

I think I'm right in saying the first round will be 16 groups of 3 teams, with 2 going through from each group. This is stupid as it leaves it open to collusion if the two playing the final game need a draw (or more specifically a scoring draw) to send them both through.


Spot on.

Will be loads of Germany v Austria 1982 scenarios being played out for sure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disgrace_of_Gij%C3%B3n

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2026 world cup on 22:10 - Oct 31 with 1571 viewsStrimmer

Group stages are held in multi city regional groupings eg west, east, south + Mexico, north + Canada, think there’s a central one too, something like that. Still big areas and dunno about the knockouts. Big as it is there’s a good chance to visit some off the beaten track places, Kansas City Guadalajara. So pros and cons but I’d take it over a booze free slave state built in a desert any day

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2026 world cup on 22:58 - Oct 31 with 1471 viewsCrock

Isn’t Boston further east than New York?

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2026 world cup on 23:39 - Oct 31 with 1420 viewsSwansea_Blue

Work out the carbon footprint of that lot!

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2026 world cup on 07:15 - Nov 1 with 1254 viewsStewart27

Love the host nation countries. Hate the format.

The three group game format has always been great. Two teams out of three playing two games each is awful.

Maybe Scotland will qualify now?
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2026 world cup on 09:00 - Nov 1 with 1150 viewsBroadhill

Anybody else think world cups are becoming boring?
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2026 world cup on 09:04 - Nov 1 with 1143 viewshype313

2026 world cup on 09:00 - Nov 1 by Broadhill

Anybody else think world cups are becoming boring?


Italia 90 was the last decent WC for me.

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2026 world cup on 18:03 - Nov 1 with 935 viewsTJS

Only 16 teams from Europe - there is going to be some serious dross amongst the other 32.
For the traditional big countries It's effectively going to be a 5 round knockout tournament after two tedious warm up matches.
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