The 2026 World Cup kicks off in the USA, Mexico and Canada on June 11, 2026, and with teams starting to book their spots at the tournament now is a good time to start making some predictions.

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The newly-expanded 48-team tournament will be epic and there is plenty of fun to be had imagining how epic next summer is going to be and predicting how it will all play out.

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Okay, here are my (very, very early) 2026 World Cup predictions.

One of the host nations will go on a very deep run

There have never been three host nations of a World Cup before, so the odds of one of them doing well is higher than normal. I hear you. But this feels like one of the host nations is peaking at exactl

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