🇶🇦 Qatar

Qatar are a recent Asian champion and former World Cup host. An AFC side, they enter the 2026 World Cup rated 1650 — 42nd of the 48 teams — in Group B.

Asian Cup winners and hosts of the 2022 World Cup. Technical and patient, built on a well-drilled, academy-developed core.

Drawn alongside Switzerland, Canada and Bosnia-Herzegovina, their toughest group test on paper is the meeting with Switzerland. Our model projects them to finish 4th in the group and to fall short of the knockout rounds.