The 48 teams that will qualify for the 2026 FIFA World Cup will learn who and where they will be playing their group stage matches on Friday, with the World Cup Draw taking place at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., at 12 p.m. ET.

The final draw will split the World Cup's first-ever 48-team field into 12 groups of four teams. To do so, the 42 nations that have already qualified, along with the final six that will be determined through a series of play-offs, will be divided into four pots of 12 teams each.

The most recent FIFA men's world rankings were used to create the pots. One team from each of the four pots will be randomly selected to fill out each of the 12 groups:

2026 FIFA World Cup Draw Pots • Pot 1: Canada, Mexico, USA, Spain, Argentina,

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