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All 48 teams for the 2026 FIFA World Cup are confirmed after the final playoff spots were decided. Here is how the groups played out.
Italy lost in penalty kicks to Bosnia and Herzegovina on Tuesday, failing to qualify for the World Cup for the third straight edition in the latest disaster for the iconic national team. Joining Bosnia out of Europe were Sweden, Czechia and Turkiye, while Congo DR beat Jamaica in their playoff final while Iraq topped Bolivia in theirs.
Qualifying is done. The lineup is complete. The countdown to the biggest-ever World Cup is on, with the 48-team tournament in North America a veritable hodgepodge of stellar names and unheralded upstarts.
How did Italy miss the 2026 World Cup? A look at the Italians' recent failures to qualify for the tournament.
The play-offs for the 2026 World Cup get underway on Thursday (March 26), with 22 teams still battling to qualify for the tournament in North America in June and July. Sixteen European sides are contesting the UEFA matches and six teams from around the world are taking part in the inter-confederation fixtures.
UEFA qualifying for the 2026 men's World Cup is done, with four teams outlasting 12 others in a dramatic March week of second-round, single-elimination fixtures around Europe.
Italy’s last World Cup knockout match was when it won the title in 2006 by beating France in a penalty shootout. The only other World Cup that Italy did not qualify for was in 1958.
Italy's sports minister has called on the country's soccer federation (FIGC) president Gabriele Gravina to resign after the four-time world champions failed to qualify for a third successive World Cup on Tuesday.
Bosnia and Herzegovina's World Cup group stage opponents, which stadiums they will play at, and the times for the games.
Gianluigi Buffon joins Italy chief in resigning after failing to deliver World Cup qualification again - Italy missed out on World Cup qualification for the third time in a row after their play-off fi
After nearly three years of qualifiers, the 2026 World Cup field of 48 teams will be set with six winner-take-all matches on Tuesday to decide the final participants for this year's tournament. Four European berths were decided in the early evening Eastern time,