Luxembourg Drawn in 4-Team Group A for FIFA World Cup 26

The draw for the FIFA World Cup 26 was held on Friday 13 December 2024 at Zurich, Switzerland, with Luxembourg drawn in UEFA Group A against Italy/Germany, Slovakia and Northern Ireland.

The competition is to be jointly hosted by the USA, Canada and Mexico, with it being expanded to a 48-team tournament (up from 32) for the first time. Mexico City's fabled Azteca stadium has been chosen to stage the tournament's opening match on 11 June 2025, and New York, New Jersey will host the final on 19 July 2026.

The finals will comprise twelve groups of four teams, with the top two teams from each group, plus the eight best third-place teams, progressing to the round of 32. Teams will have to play eight games from group stage through to the final, rather than seven.

In total, sixteen cities will host matches: eleven are located in the USA (Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Miami, Boston and New York) with the Mexican games to be played in Monterrey, Guadalajara and Mexico City, and the Canadian venues being Vancouver and Toronto.

The 48 teams will qualify from the continental confederations as follows:

- AFC (Asia): Eight direct spots + one inter-confederation play-off place
- CAF (Africa): Nine direct spots + one inter-confederation play-off place
- Concacaf (North and Central America, plus the Caribbean): Six direct spots + two inter-confederation play-off places (including the three host countries who qualify automatically)
- CONMEBOL (South America): Six direct spots + one inter-confederation play-off place
- OFC (Oceania): One direct spot + one inter-confederation play-off place
- UEFA (Europe): 16 direct spots

In Europe, 54 teams will battle it out for the sixteen places, with four of the twelve qualifying groups completed; the remaining eight sections will only have a confirmed Pot 1 team after March's UEFA Nations League quarter-finals.

- Group A: Winner Italy-Germany (UNL QF4), Slovakia, Northern Ireland, Luxembourg
- Group B: Switzerland, Sweden, Slovenia, Kosovo
- Group C: Defeated team Denmark-Portugal (UNL QF3), Greece, Scotland, Belarus
- Group D: Winner Croatia-France (UNL QF2), Ukraine, Iceland, Azerbaijan
- Group E: Winner Netherlands-Spain (UNL QF1), Turkey, Georgia, Bulgaria, Malta
- Group F: Winner Denmark-Portugal (UNL QF3), Hungary, Republic of Ireland, Armenia
- Group G: Defeated team Netherlands-Spain (UNL QF1), Poland, Finland, Lithuania
- Group H: Austria, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, San Marino
- Group I: Defeated team Italy-Germany (UNL QF4), Norway, Israel, Estonia, Moldova
- Group J: Belgium, Wales, North Macedonia, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein
- Group K: England, Serbia, Albania, Latvia, Andorra
- Group L: Defeated team Croatia-France (UNL QF2), Czechia, Montenegro, Faroe Islands, Gibraltar

The twelve group winners will qualify automatically, with the twelve runners-up joined by the four highest-ranked Nations League teams who fail to qualify, battling it out in play-offs for the remaining four European places.

Qualifying begins in March 2025, with teams drawn in groups of four starting their campaigns in September. They will play traditional home-and-away matches and all groups will conclude in November 2025. Play-off matches are scheduled for 26 and 31 March 2026.