2026 World Cup: our favourites 🌟 | OneFootball

The 2026 World Cup is underway!

The competition kicks off this Thursday at 9 p.m. with the opening match between Mexico and South Africa.

OneFootball presents its favorites and dark horses!

OneFootball will bring you all the results and all the major news from this 2026 World Cup live!

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Spain

Reigning European champions, Spain head into this World Cup as the overwhelming favorites!

La Roja are probably the most well-drilled team collectively in the tournament and will be lifted by individual talents that many national teams can only dream of: Pedri, Rodri, Lamine Yamal. 

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France, England

Just behind Spain, we find France and England!

Les Bleus arrive in the USA with the most impressive attack at this World Cup. Kylian Mbappé, Ousmane Dembélé, Michael Olise, Rayan Cherki, Désiré Doué, Bradley Barcola...

That firepower makes Deschamps' men very serious title contenders.

Just like... England!

Semi-finalists in 2018 and quarter-finalists in 2022; runners-up at Euro 2021 and Euro 2024, the Three Lions have come close to a major title for almost ten years now.

Led by players currently in their prime, such as Harry Kane, Declan Rice and Morgan Rogers, England can legitimately dream of a second star. 

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Argentina, Portugal, Brazil

For their last World Cup, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi start a little further back, but with Portugal and Argentina they are still among the serious contenders for the final victory!

The same goes for Brazil, who despite major shortcomings in certain positions, can rely on their attacking talent and Carlo Ancelotti's man-management to outperform for more than a month and go win a sixth star!

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Germany, Netherlands, Senegal

A bit behind the teams mentioned above, the two European sides are waiting in the wings!

Germany and the Netherlands have difficult groups, and if they get through them without too many problems, they could become formidable in the knockout stages!

Reigning African champions (on the pitch), Senegal can also aim to win a first title!

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Belgium, Morocco, Colombia, Switzerland

Finally, the list of dark horses is as long as your arm.

But the recent performances of these five national teams push us to mention them in particular. 

We are thinking in particular of Switzerland, always solid in major tournaments, but also Morocco, the reigning semi-finalists!

And you, who do you see winning the World Cup?

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇫🇷 here.

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