Wednesday, 3 June 2026

The Last Update Before Kick-Off

The 2026 World Cup will be kicking off very soon, where one of the host nations, Mexico, from Group A, start their World Cup campaign at the Estadio Aztec stadium in Mexico City against South Africa. Kick off at 8pm (GMT) Thursday, June 11. 

We here at Golden Goals have closed the book, and we have a total of 50 people taking part in our tenth World Cup tournament. Out of the 48 nations taking part, we will have 28 nations, which have been voted for. Below is the group draw with all the 48 nations taking part, and the ones to look out for are the ones in BOLD CAPITAL LETTERS.  

These are the nations that we have this time round. 

Group A -  CZECH REPUBLIC, MEXICO, South Africa, SOUTH KOREA

Group B -  Bosnia-Herzegovina, CANADA, Qatar, SWITZERLAND

Group C -  BRAZIL,  Haiti, MOROCCO, SCOTLAND

Group D -  Australia, PARAGUAY, TURKEY, USA

Group E -  CuraƧao, Ecuador, GERMANY, Ivory Coast,  

Group F -  JAPAN, NETHERLANDS, SWEDEN, Tunisia

Group G -  BELGIUM, EGYPT, Iran, New Zealand

Group H CAPE VERDE, Saudi Arabia, SPAIN, URUGUAY

Group I  FRANCE, Iraq, NORWAY, SENEGAL

Group J -  ARGENTINA, Algeria, Austria, Jordan 

Group K - Colombia, DR Congo, PORTUGAL, Uzbekistan,  

Group L -  ENGLAND,  CROATIA,  GHANA, Panama  

The voting went down to just six nations really, and here they are. In first place, with a total of 30 votes we have Spain. In second place, with 24 votes, we have Argentina. In third place, we have Brazil with 23 votes. In fourth place, with 22 votes we have France. In fifth place, with 20 votes we have Germany. In sixth place we have England with a total of 18 votes. 

We still have the four nations that have been in all of our ten Golden Goals World Cup competitions. They are Argentina, Brazil, Germany and Spain. 

Cape Verde will all make their first appearance in the World Cup and with Golden Goals. We also have Canada, and Morocco making their first appraence with Golden Goals.

We will keep you right up to date with what’s going on with our nations, right here on this blog.

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