The furthest north the World Cup has gone is Sandviken in Sweden in 1958, the furthest east is Sapporo in Japan in 2002 and the furthest south is Mar del Plata in Argentina in 1978. While 48 teams will compete at the 2026 World Cup, there are 64 teams involved in tomorrow's draw.

The 2026 World Cup draw, slated for noon ET from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., will determine the makeup of the tournament’s 12 four-team groups for next summer’s tournament, set to take place at 16 venues across the U.S., Mexico and Canada.

The draw for the 2026 World Cup took place in Washington on Friday, with US President Donald Trump playing a prominent part in a star-studded ceremony that will map the

The 16 countries in the draw — there either via performance in regular World Cup qualifying or the 2024-25 UEFA Nations League — were divided into four qualification paths. Each path comprises two semi-finals and a final, meaning four teams will emerge with places at the tournament.

Trump seems unsure whether to call it soccer or football, but the president's aim is truer when using the world's favorite sport to score diplomatic goals.