Quiz, anyone?
The great thing about a 48-team World Cup is that all the big teams are here (well, apart from one or two), so there’s plenty of heritage across the competition: gone are the days of a 16-team tournament where only one team from the home nations and a couple from the entirety of Africa will qualify.
But can you tell us the most successful sides to have ever graced this competition? We’ve given you 10 minutes to list the top 40 teams… but there’s a catch. We want you to do it in order. Get that backspace button at the ready!
Handpicked football quizzes we know you’ll love
Ready for more quizzes?. To see if your mental stamina can survive a summer of back-to-back matchdays, we’ve drawn up a lineup of teasers designed to test your awareness of the modern masterminds pulling the strings and the icons who have defined the grandest stage on Earth – courtesy of Kwizly.
We’re launching straight into the current tournament’s technical area and its most ruthless finishers. With tactical battles unfolding daily across Canada, Mexico, and the United States, we want to see if you can identify the brains in the dugout by naming every manager at World Cup 2026. Once you’ve mapped out the tactical bosses, shift your focus to the ultimate cheat code of modern football by seeing if you can get 100 per cent in our Erling Haaland quiz, to celebrate the Nordic marksman lighting up his very first World Cup with a flurry of goals.
If the past is more your thing, take a nostalgia trip exactly twenty years into the past to test your memory on Zinedine Zidane’s dramatic curtain call and Italy’s Berlin triumph with The Big 2006 World Cup Quiz. After conquering the archives of that iconic tournament, bring your focus back to domestic icons and try to name every England player with over 50 caps: an exhaustive trial of international longevity that separates armchair analysts from the true historians who remember every stalwart to earn a half-century of international honours.
To lower your pulse after navigating that massive statistical workout, find a quiet spot in the dugout for FourFourTwo’s Weekend Crossword 59, featuring a brilliantly niche focus on 80s heroes, midfield maestros, and non-FIFA nations. To ensure you stay one step ahead of the late tactical shifts as the knockout rounds loom, subscribe to our newsletter for your daily afternoon briefing of hand-picked trivia. To truly secure your legacy this summer, make sure you’ve joined The Club, our free membership hub that serves as your digital dugout, where you can unlock secret hints for the toughest quizzes, fight for the top of the global leaderboards, and join the debate in the comments section as the tournament drama unfolds.