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Open The PlaybookKlose's 16 goals. Brazil's five trophies. Germany's seven straight semis. Which records actually break in a 48-team tournament — and which are now mathematically out of reach.
Form data from qualifying, head-to-head history, and a decade of WC matchups. Not who you'd guess — who the numbers say.
104 matches. 12 groups of 4. A new round of 32. How the new structure changes who advances, and why some favourites just got harder to back.
Some of the teams that will face each other in the group stage have already played warm-ups against each other. Here's what those friendlies looked like. And what they don't tell us.
Forty-eight teams means countries who've never been to a World Cup will finally play in one. Who they are, who they're drawn against, and how the new format gives them a path past the group stage.
Germany have never lost one. England have rarely won. Every World Cup penalty shootout since they were introduced in 1982, the team records they've built, and why 2026's larger bracket guarantees more of them.
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