2026 World Cup Qualifying UEFA 10000 Simulations (update 27 April 2025) Qualifying GroupsWith this post I've now also included the playoffs in the simulation, and as such I can give a total qualifying percentage for each country.NOTE: The "Pl-off" column suggests the chance to have to play the playoff, the "Q-Totl" suggest the total chance to qualify either as group winner or as playoff path winner, and the "NotQual" column suggest the chances of not qualifying,
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2026 World Cup Qualifying UEFA 10000 Simulations (update 20 April 2025) Especially for Ted, here's the simulation update to the UEFA 2026 World Cup Qualifying groups following the publication of the April 2025 FIFA Ranking and this time adding the chances of qualifying for the playoffs via the 2024/2025 UEFA Nations League.NOTE: The "Pl-off" column signifies the percentage chance to qualify for the playoff round, the "Q-or-P" signifies the percentage change to
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2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup 10000 Simulations Following the draw made this week I tuned my software to be able to predict a tournament. Here's the results.NOTE 1: as Guadeloupe isn't a FIFA member and I use FIFA rankings for predictions, I created this simulation with a presumptive ranking of 1150, which seems realistic.NOTE 2: for the matchup possibilities I took the 10 most likely ones as there's more combinations possible.Group ACountry&
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2026 World Cup - Seeding Pots So I spent some time today to change my software to be able to predict future rankings beyond only the next one which it could already do. Below is a prediction (not from a simulation) for the (28?) November 2025 FIFA ranking if all (known) matches go as expected. From this we can then determine, following earlier simulation posts, what the seeding pots will likely look like.NOTE 1: This ranking
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2026 World Cup Qualifying UEFA 10000 Simulations (update 24 March 2025) [Provisional pending April 2025 FIFA Ranking] Wow! What a night that was! Can't remember ever seeing that many goals in a set of 4 quarter finals! Are the teams THAT good offensively, or THAT bad defensively? I think a bit of both! So what does it mean for the 2026 World Cup Qualifying UEFA? I know this still depends on some results in the next couple of days, and also potentially some friendlies, but below is how things stands right now
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