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 will feature 13 different kick-off times, with almost half the group stage matches taking place after 00:00 BST.

Follow live coverage as teams are drawn for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The tournament will take place in the United States, Mexico and Canada next summer.

The resale price of tickets to 2026 World Cup games involving Portugal and Argentina jumped by an average of nearly 300 per cent in the hours after Friday’s World Cup draw and Saturday’s schedule release.

Watch the 2026 Men's FIFA World Cup Draw live. Stream every moment as nations learn their group-stage fate ahead of soccer’s biggest tournament.

WASHINGTON — The world is on track to add nearly two months of dangerous superhot days each year by the end of the century, with poorer small nations hit far more often than the biggest carbon-polluting countries, a study released Thursday found.

You’ll really want to lick these stamps. Life is butter in France, whose postal service, La Poste, introduced nearly 600,000 stamps that smell like butter croissants in celebration of the “emblem of French gastronomy.” The savory stamp costs €2.10 ...

After the FIFA 2026 World Cup draw which took place on Friday at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington , D.C., on Saturday the off