The Bracket 26 · United States · Canada · Mexico

Predict the Knockout Bracket

A free prediction game for the 2026 international football tournament. Set how each group finishes, route the eight third-place qualifiers into their eligible slots, then pick winners from the Round of 32 to the Final. Every pairing follows the real, published bracket rules.

76 picks to glory. Start with Group A.

STEP 1 Set the group finishing order 0/36Tap to edit

Pick 1st, 2nd and 3rd for each group. (4th is eliminated.) These determine who lands in each Round-of-32 slot.

STEP 2 Route the 8 best third-place teams 0/8Tap to edit

Only 8 of the 12 third-place teams advance. Each slot below accepts a third-place team only from its eligible groups (the published bracket rule). Pick a different group for each. The 4 you leave out are the thirds that didn't qualify.

STEP 3 Advance the bracket 0/32Tap to edit

Tap a team to send it through. Changing anything upstream automatically clears affected later picks.

Pick a champion to complete your bracket.

advancing pick

On the third-place routing: which specific group fills which slot is set by the published pre-tournament allocation table, keyed to which eight groups produce qualifying thirds. There are 495 possible combinations, all pre-defined before kickoff. This tool enforces the published per-slot group eligibility and lets you place any eligible-group third, so every arrangement it allows is a real, rule-legal possibility. The "auto-route" button picks one valid combination, not the official one for a given set of results.