World Cup 2026 Groups

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Group C: Portugal/Denmark (loser), Greece, SCOTLAND, Belarus.

Group A: Germany/Italy (winner), Slovakia, NORTHERN IRELAND, Luxembourg.

Group J: Belgium, WALES, North Macedonia, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein.

Group K: ENGLAND, Serbia, Albania, Latvia, Andorra.

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The games will be played across five international breaks between March and November 2025.

The top team from each of the 12 groups qualifies automatically for the World Cup, which will be held in the US, Canada and Mexico - with the second-placed teams going into the play-offs. A total of 16 European teams will qualify.

Scotland and Northern Ireland have been drawn in four-team groups and will not start their games until September.

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Scotland will not know whether they play Portugal or Denmark until March, and do not know where the game against Belarus will be played.

Recent Belarus home games have been staged at neutral venues because of ongoing conflict in neighbouring Ukraine.

"First off, it's to find out where the game will be played," Scotland head coach Steve Clarke said.

"The most important thing is to concentrate on the team, the players, the way they're going to play and make sure that wherever we play them and - put all the political stuff aside, for me - it's just to concentrate that we get the points that we require from that game."