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Printable Bracket
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Mark each team 1st / 2nd / 3rd / 4th.
Pick 8 of 12 third-place teams (p. 2).
Fill R32 → SF on pages 3 & 4.
Champion + tiebreakers on page 5.
Group Stage circle the finishing position for each team
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Mexico
14
1
2
3
4
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South Korea
22
1
2
3
4
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Czechia
36
1
2
3
4
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South Africa
56
1
2
3
4
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Switzerland
19
1
2
3
4
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Canada
31
1
2
3
4
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Qatar
53
1
2
3
4
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Bosnia-Herzegovina
76
1
2
3
4
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Brazil
5
1
2
3
4
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Morocco
13
1
2
3
4
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Scotland
39
1
2
3
4
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Haiti
83
1
2
3
4
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USA
16
1
2
3
4
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Australia
26
1
2
3
4
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Türkiye
28
1
2
3
4
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Paraguay
47
1
2
3
4
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Germany
9
1
2
3
4
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Ecuador
24
1
2
3
4
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Ivory Coast
41
1
2
3
4
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Curacao
81
1
2
3
4
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Netherlands
7
1
2
3
4
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Japan
18
1
2
3
4
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Sweden
38
1
2
3
4
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Tunisia
49
1
2
3
4
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Belgium
6
1
2
3
4
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Iran
20
1
2
3
4
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Egypt
35
1
2
3
4
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New Zealand
89
1
2
3
4
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Spain
1
1
2
3
4
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Uruguay
15
1
2
3
4
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Saudi Arabia
58
1
2
3
4
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Cape Verde
70
1
2
3
4
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France
2
1
2
3
4
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Senegal
17
1
2
3
4
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Norway
33
1
2
3
4
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Iraq
58
1
2
3
4
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Argentina
3
1
2
3
4
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Austria
23
1
2
3
4
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Algeria
37
1
2
3
4
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Jordan
64
1
2
3
4
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Portugal
8
1
2
3
4
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Colombia
12
1
2
3
4
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Uzbekistan
57
1
2
3
4
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Congo DR
60
1
2
3
4
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England
4
1
2
3
4
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Croatia
10
1
2
3
4
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Panama
40
1
2
3
4
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Ghana
73
1
2
3
4
Best Third-Place Teams
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Check Your 8 Picks write the team name on the line; cross out the 4 you don't pick
Left Half Bracket
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Right Half Bracket
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Final, Champion & Awards
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The 2026 World Cup is the first tournament with 48 teams instead of 32, which changes how the bracket needs to be laid out. DeFiRate created this free printable 2026 world cup bracket challenge with 12 groups, a Round of 32, a wildcard round where eight of the third-place teams get a second life, and the usual ladder up through the Final. All of it fits on five pages of letter-size paper with groups filled in.
It doubles as a World cup pdf schedule, too. Every group lists its three match dates, each knockout match shows its date and kickoff time in ET right on the bracket, and page 2 has a one-glance tournament timeline. Pin it up and you will always know when the next game is.
Use it however makes sense for you. A lot of people stick it on the fridge, pass copies around the office, or fold one into a notebook for matchday.
- Pages 1 and 2 cover the group stage and the wildcard round — write each team’s finish, then choose the eight thirds you think will advance.
- Pages 3 and 4 are the two halves of the knockout bracket, side by side with the slot labels, so when the schedule says “1A vs 3-ABCDF” you know exactly which winner goes where.
- Page 5 wraps everything up with the Final, your Champion, the 3rd-place playoff, and a few tiebreakers — total goals, Golden Boot, final score, that kind of thing.
If you’d rather have your picks scored for you, we have created a free online 2026 world cup bracket challenge. It takes a couple of minutes to fill out. You get a private edit link and a public share link, and the score updates on its own as matches finish. You can create a private pool with a short invite code to share with friends, or add your bracket to the public leaderboard and see how it stacks up against everyone else playing.
The online version also shows live odds from Kalshi and Polymarket on each match, which is useful when you’re not sure about a group and want to see where the markets are leaning before locking in your pick. And if you still want a paper copy, you can fill out your bracket online and then download this printable version with all of your picks already filled in, so you get the best of both.
Plenty of pools end up running both versions side by side — the printable for the in-person bracket-day feel, the online one as the running scoreboard. Either way works. Kickoff is June 11, 2026.