The Blues of Kylian Mbappé did not only have the Final Four of the League of Nations in mind. The 2026 World Cup is only in 15 months! Qualified at the expense of Croatia at the end of a festive return meeting concluded by a penalty shootout in Saint-Denis (2-0; 5-4 TAB), the French team will play a semi-final against Spain, next Thursday in Stuttgart, before a final or a match for third place against Germany or Portugal, the other participants of the latter Carré.
The training of Didier Deschamps can above all project himself on his qualifications at the 2026 World Cup, co-organized by Canada, the United States and Mexico (disputed in the US from the quarterfinals). France now knows that it will have to win group D of the Europe area to qualify directly for the World Cup 26, starting from the start against the Outsider of the hen, Ukraine, on September 5, before challenging Iceland and Azerbaijan. The second of each group will play European dams (four Final Four will give as many tickets).
World number 2 behind Argentina, the EDF will be a part, in the event of qualification, of the head of the head of the draw (probably in December 2025). X account Football Rankings made a projection of the four hats of the draw. In this first pot are the three host countries, which have already been distributed in three different groups. Argentina, holding the title already qualified for the 2026 World Cup, as well as Brazil will also be “protected” when the group phase is made.
France facing cracks?
With the passage from 32 to 48 participants, the best teams in the FIFA ranking will be invited in the first round. France would end up with six other European selections in the first hat, namely Spain, England, the Netherlands, Portugal, Belgium and Italy, if all these beautiful people pockets its strapontin for the quadrennial meeting. Except that Germany is only 10th in the world and is projected in the second hat of the draw! Falling the Mannschaft would be annoying, all the more for the Blues, who took a round ball lesson in March 2024 in Lyon against the men of Julian Nagelsmann (0-2).
A potential “group of death” would therefore be possible for the Blues. In addition to Germany, we would thus find Morocco semi-finalist in 2022, Uruguay led by Bielsa, Senegal of Sadio ManĂ© or even South Korea of ​​his Heung-Min in the second hat. The opponent pulled in pot 3 will be decisive. Algeria, one of the most talented African selections, CĂ´te d'Ivoire, winner of CAN in February 2024, and Mohamed Salah and Omar Marmoush would make dangerous opponents.
Finally, in hat 4, it will especially be necessary to avoid the four winners of European dams, namely Serbia, Norway of Erling Haaland, Greece and Turkey according to the calculations of
Football Rankings. European teams will not, however, be able to face more than another selection of the old continent. And an elimination from the group phase would be very improbable. The first round indeed leads to 16th finals, with the first two of each group and the eight best thirds of the 12 hens.
