The 2026 World Cup features 48 national teams, and this page collects BetFootball's coverage of it: match previews, the tournament table and the fixture list, all in one place as the competition unfolds.
The tournament stays fixed at 48 teams across the edition, but who sits where in the groups and who plays whom changes with every round, so we keep that detail off this page. Follow the World Cup table for standings and the World Cup fixtures page for the full schedule.
Previews are published for selected matches rather than every fixture on the calendar. Each one is a full breakdown built the same way: a predicted scoreline, a headline tip, five further picks across other markets, a three-leg bet builder, team news for both sides, a predicted line-up each, and where to watch. A preview goes up around 22 hours before kick-off and is updated if the team news changes before the game. Once the match is played, the same page turns into the record of how those tips did, so there's no separate results page to hunt down. Every preview carries a writer's byline, and the full list of contributors sits on the authors page.
Tips are graded strictly: a flat £10 stake per tip, at the odds printed when the preview first went live, and a bet builder counts as one bet at the combined price of its three legs. Misses are never removed from the ledger. For the running numbers behind all of that, see the tip record, and for the full detail on process, see how we predict.