🇨🇻 Cape Verde

Cape Verde are one of the smallest nations to reach the expanded World Cup. A CAF side, they enter the 2026 World Cup rated 1600 — 46th of the 48 teams — in Group H.

An island side whose rise is among the feel-good stories of the 48-team era. Tight-knit and organised, competing through unity and collective effort.

Drawn alongside Spain, Uruguay and Saudi Arabia, their toughest group test on paper is the meeting with Spain. Our model projects them to finish 4th in the group and to fall short of the knockout rounds.