Overview

• The group-stage draw will be held at 12 p.m. local time on Dec. 5 at Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center, with President Donald Trump expected to attend.
• Teams will be sorted into 12 groups of four from four seeded pots, with the three hosts and the nine highest-ranked qualifiers in Pot 1 and confederation separation limiting groups to a maximum of two European sides.
• Twenty-one nations are confirmed, including hosts United States, Canada, and Mexico, plus Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Ecuador, Colombia, Paraguay, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Iran, Uzbekistan, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, and Ghana.
• The tournament runs June 11 to July 19, opening at Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca and concluding with the final at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, with 78 matches in the United States and 13 each in Mexico and Canada.
• Group progression sends the top two plus the eight best third-placed teams to the last 32 using points, goal difference, goals, then team conduct scores and world ranking as tiebreakers, while slot allocations are set by confederation and Bolivia has secured an inter-confederation playoff berth.