To date, 42 direct qualification spots for the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico have been secured. With the tournament expanded to 48 teams, several nations and regions have secured their return to the World Cup after an absence of many years.
Last World Cup finals appearance for each team:
First appearance: Uzbekistan, Jordan, Cape Verde, Curaçao
1974: Haiti
1998: Scotland, Austria, Norway
2010: New Zealand, Paraguay, South Africa
2014: Algeria, Côte d'Ivoire
2018: Colombia, Egypt, Panama
2022: Canada, Mexico, United States, Japan, Iran, Argentina, South Korea, Australia, Brazil, Ecuador, Uruguay, Morocco, Tunisia, Ghana, Qatar, Senegal, England, Saudi Arabia, Croatia, France, Portugal, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain