Can England end 60 years of hurt and finally regain the World Cup? 🤔
Predict how you think the group stages and knockout rounds will unfold before selecting your champion.
Play The Telegraph's World Cup 2026 predictor now ⤵️
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Many have called it the “rip-off World Cup”.
🎫Exorbitant ticket prices
🤑Price-gouged local transport
✈️Flights galore
⛔️No water bottles allowed
@ben_rumsby breaks down all the ways fans are being fleeced at the #FIFAWorldCup ⬇️
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🇭🇹 Not sure what to expect from Haiti tonight?
🔺 World ranking: 81
⭐ Best World Cup performance: Group stage, 1974
🫡 Captain: Johny Placide
But who is their star player? (He plays in the Premier League)
Find out here ⬇️
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“Football needs to be careful that it doesn’t lose touch with the people that matter, and that’s the supporters”
@jpercytelegraph spoke to Scotland manager Steve Clarke before his side’s first World Cup since 1998 👇
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🇧🇷 Brazil begin their World Cup campaign tonight – but will Bournemouth's Rayan feature?
Two of our football writers have predicted he will be the tournament's breakout player.
Do you agree? Let us know and see our experts' full predictions here ⬇️
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Matt & Mike are now in Kansas City, England's World Cup base 👀
🏡 £15m facility
✈️ All the flight distances to the match venues
🇺🇸 Why Kansas City in the first place?
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Central location, top training facilities and a hotel with an “English Cottage aesthetic”...
@mcgrathmike takes a closer look at England’s World Cup base in Kansas 👀
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Ever since tickets first went on sale, Fifa has come under fire for overseeing what is arguably the most expensive World Cup on record.
We meet the fans leaving life-saving-sized holes in their bank accounts to go – with one paying an estimated £15,000 👇
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The stories from Scotland’s 1998 World Cup campaign
🏴 Bebeto & Hearts
🏴 Jim Leighton’s underpants
🏴 “No teeth”
🏴 “They’re f***ing s***ing themselves”
🏴 Dad’s Army
🏴 The Ronaldo plan
Thanks to Craig Burley, Kevin Gallacher & others for the tales & insight
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“They were stood there, not a hair out of place, all tanned, looking immaculate and there’s Burley and Leighton with no teeth.”
@TelegraphDucker talks to Craig Burley and Kevin Gallacher about the last time Scotland played in the World Cup finals – and they failed to stymie the original Ronaldo 👇
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Tom Cruise, Sir David Beckham, Brad Pitt... The list goes on.
It's no wonder @oliverbrown_tel felt a gnawing sense of the football being secondary during the US match against Paraguay, a footnote in a plastic-fantastic parade.
Read his verdict here ⤵️
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🏙️ Views across Manhattan vs an LED screen in Salford...
That makes it: ITV 1, BBC 0
Our man Alan Tyers sat up watching the football all night so you don’t have to, and here is what he learnt ⤵️
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England are at the centre of a World Cup police investigation over the theft of boots belonging to Thomas Tuchel’s players.
@Matt_Law_DT has the details ⬇️
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