Now nine months before the 2026 World Cup kick off, no less than 13 nations are guaranteed to compete in the World Cup across the Atlantic. In addition to the three organizing countries, Argentina (title holder), Brazil, Ecuador, Japan, South Korea, Iran, Uzbekistan, Jordan, Australia and New Zealand have indeed won their ticket.
Paradoxically, the French team has still not started its playoffs. As a result of its participation in the Final Four of the League of Nations in the spring. The Blues will launch their campaign on Thursday against Ukraine and play its qualification in just over two months against Ukraine, but also Iceland and Azerbaijan.
The Blues will not have the right to make mistakes.
Didier Deschamps' men will obviously leave with the favors of the forecasts. Nevertheless, the Blues will not have the right to make mistakes since there will be only six matches to play by mid-November. The slightest false-pas could therefore afford at a high price in the race in first place.
Because to surely validate its ticket and chain an eighth consecutive World Cup, France will have to finish at the top of its group. The second of each group will certainly have a last chance, but they will have to go through dams at the end of all uncertain programmed in March. Italy, which has been deprived of the last two World Cup, can testify to this …
To start, France is expected in Poland to face its greatest rival, Ukraine, 26th in the FIFA ranking. The reception at the Parc des Princes of Iceland will follow, 74th world nation. Next month, the Blues will welcome Azerbaijan, the little thumb of the top of its 122nd place in the FIFA hierarchy and then a trip to Iceland. In November, the world's vice-champions will finally chain the reception of Ukraine and a trip to Azerbaijan.
