President Trump, Tom Brady and other sports legends reveal 2026 FIFA World Cup groupings

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FIFA revealed its World Cup groupings astatine a star-studded lawsuit successful Washington, D.C., connected Friday.

With the assistance of President Donald Trump, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, NFL fable Tom Brady, NBA large Shaquille O’Neal, New York Yankees superstar Aaron Judge, and the NHL’s top subordinate of each time, Wayne Gretzky, each 12 groups were announced.

All the aforementioned individuals selected random balls that contained the countries' names, and their selections assigned them to their groups. Trump, Sheinbaum and Carney each picked their ain countries’ names to statesman the process.

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Donald Trump, Claudia Sheinbaum, Mark Carney

President Donald Trump, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney clasp their countries' cards during the gully for the 2026 shot World Cup astatine the Kennedy Center successful Washington connected Dec. 5, 2025. (Stephanie Scarbrough, Pool/AP Photo)

Brady selected the teams successful Pot 1, O’Neal picked Pot 2’s teams, and Judge and Gretzky had Pots 3 and 4, respectively.

While the groups were created connected Friday, six of the 48 teams participating volition lone beryllium known successful March 2026. Four of them volition travel from the 16-team UEFA playoffs.

The countries competing successful the UEFA play-offs are: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czechia, Denmark, Italy, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, North Macedonia, Poland, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine and Wales.

The remaining 2 spots volition beryllium decided astatine the FIFA World Cup 2026 Play-Off Tournament. The six teams competing successful that tourney are Bolivia, Congo DR, Iraq, Jamaica, New Caledonia and Suriname.

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(L/R) FIFA President Gianni Infantino, US President Donald Trump, and Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum basal connected signifier during the gully for the 2026 FIFA Football World Cup taking spot successful the US, Canada and Mexico, astatine the Kennedy Center, successful Washington, DC, connected December 5, 2025. (Stephanie Scarbrough / POOL / AFP)

Below are each 12 groups:

Group A

Mexico

South Africa

Korea Republic

Winner UEFA Play-off D

Group B

Canada

Winner UEFA Play-off A

Qatar

Switzerland

Group C

Brazil

Morocco

Haiti

Scotland

Group D

USA

Paraguay

Australia

Winner UEFA Play-off C

Group E

Germany

Curaçao

Côte d'Ivoire

Ecuador

Group F

Netherlands

Japan

Winner UEFA Play-off B

Tunisia

Group G

Belgium

Egypt

IR Iran

New Zealand

Group H

Spain

Cabo Verde

Saudi Arabia

Uruguay

Group I

France

Senegal

Winner FIFA Play-off 2

Norway

Group J

Argentina

Algeria

Austria

Jordan

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Alejandro Zendejas (17) scores a extremity and celebrates with Max Arfsten (18), Cristian Roldan (24) and Christian Pulisic (10) during an planetary affable crippled betwixt Japan and USMNT astatine Lower.com Field successful Columbus, Ohio, connected Sept. 9, 2025. (Robin Alam/ISI Photos/ISI Photos via Getty Images)