Football : World Cup 2026

Time for a topic on this as the playoffs draw is tomorrow.

England have already qualified, and well done to Scotland, that was an exciting match last night.

Wales and Ireland have qualified for the playoffs via 2nd place in their groups, and Northern Ireland should qualify for them via their Nations League position.

Congrats also to Curacao, the smallest nation to ever qualify for the main competition.

[thenry]

Sunday just gone was Hungary vs Republic of Ireland. I had a choice at 2pm Portugal who gave Armenia a thumping or Republic of Ireland with a slim chance of making the next round. I chose Hungary thinking Szoboszlai will give a MOTM performance. The game was incredible. Hungary looked as though they had enough to see them through but they took it for granted later on in the game. Hungary should have finished Republic of Ireland off. What came about was Hungarys own doing. Incredible Republic of Ireland. Good for them for turning up.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Paul

Time for a topic on this as the playoffs draw is tomorrow.

England have already qualified, and well done to Scotland, that was an exciting match last night.

Wales and Ireland have qualified for the playoffs via 2nd place in their groups, and Northern Ireland should qualify for them via their Nations League position.

Congrats also to Curacao, the smallest nation to ever qualify for the main competition.

Fantastic to have both Scotland and Curacao both qualify.

Shame UEFA appear to be a bunch of muppets.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2084wyx1plo

Uefa orders Scotland fans to remove celebration videos from X

[thenry]

Consistency would be good. Social media influencers tend to cross the line often.

Uefa frequently removes YouTube videos due to strict copyright enforcement.

Uefa has been approached for comment.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2084wyx1plo

Strict

Update

Uefa has apologised after videos of Scotland fans celebrating the team qualifying for the World Cup were removed from social media.

The Scottish Football Supporters Association (SFSA) received emails from the European football governing body stating it had shared footage showing TV coverage of the Scotland v Denmark game on X without permission.

Posts shared by the SFSA showed fans across the country celebrating Tuesday 's match, where Scotland secured a World Cup spot for the first time since 1998.

Uefa said many videos were "wrongly picked up by content protection agencies" and taken down due to copyright infringement. The SFSA's account was also blocked…

…Following the criticism, Uefa backtracked on the removals and issued an apology.

It said steps were being taken to withdraw the copyright notices so that the videos can be reinstated by the social media platforms.

A spokesperson said: "Uefa has a robust and extensive content protection programme in place to combat the unauthorised distribution of its content.

"In this instance, it appears that the relevant content was wrongly picked up by our content protection agencies.

"We apologise for the inconvenience this has caused and thank you for your understanding.

[Carth]

the relevant content was wrongly picked up by our content protection agencies.

Would that be AI cocking it up again you reckon?

[thenry]

The final draw is tomorrow. The show is to begin at 5pm UK time

https://www.youtube.com/live/9HX_tQBA-Iw

[Stephen]

So happy that Scotland will finally be at the World Cup again after 27 years. I have actually still got my Scotland Home top from Euro 96, and it still fits, lol. Was that lovely tartan one.

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by Stephen

So happy that Scotland will finally be at the World Cup again after 27 years. I have actually still got my Scotland Home top from Euro 96, and it still fits, lol. Was that lovely tartan one.

My first World Cup wallchart was in 1978. Scotland were the only UK country that qualified.

The wallchart was a complicated affair, that involved placing stickers of the countries flags, against the appropriate fixtures. Seem to remember having a lot of Scotland stickers left over at the end of the tournament

Fans are going to need very deep pockets to follow their teams through the tournament…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/extra/i4...-stadium-guide



For instance, for teams who will be in the "Western Region", Vancouver and LA are over 2,000Km apart.

Central Region - Guadalajara to Kansas City - 2,500Km

Eastern Region - Miami to Boston or Toronto - 1,500Km

The quarter-finals are in LA, KC, Miami, & Boston, the semis are in Dallas & Atlanta, the game for 3rd place in Miami, and the Finals are in New Jersey…

So, if you’re fortunate enough for your team to get to the Final, you could (after getting through the qualifying stage, the Round of 32, and the Round of 16), you could be travelling from LA to Dallas to New Jersey (2,300Km then 2,200Km).