FIFA World Cup 2026 — Bracket & Winner Predictor

🏆 FIFA World Cup 2026 — Bracket & Winner Predictor

AUTO-REFRESH OFF

USA · Canada · Mexico · June 11 – July 19, 2026 · 48 teams. Click teams to advance them, run scenarios, dial upsets. Connect a live feed in ⚙️ Admin.

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Matches Decided

Upsets

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Predicted Champion

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Their Title Odds

📋 Scenario Presets — each fills the entire bracket (real results stay locked)

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Advancing Upset winner Higher win probability Toss-up / xG Live / final result

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Run a simulation to see each team's chance of reaching every round. Eliminated teams show 0%.

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📡 Auto-refresh & live status — how it works

A browser-only page can't scrape FIFA/ESPN directly (CORS). Three ways to feed it, configured in ⚙️ Admin: (1) manual score entry, (2) a sports-data API key, or (3) your own backend proxy. The app uses adaptive polling — it only calls the API when a match is near kickoff or in play, so you don't burn your quota.

recommendedAdaptive polling schedule

No game today → idle (no calls). Game within 30 min → every 5 min. Game live → every 60–90 sec. Just finished → every 2 min for 10 min, then stop. This keeps you well under free-tier caps (football-data.org allows 10 requests/minute; API-Football free tier is 100 requests/day).

noteLive scores often need a paid tier

On many free tiers, scores are delayed rather than real-time — full live goal-by-goal usually requires a paid livescores add-on. The adaptive schedule still works; results just arrive with a short lag on free plans.

productionBackend proxy

For a public site, run a tiny server (Node / Cloudflare Worker) that holds your key and forwards the feed. Set its URL in Admin → "Proxy URL". Ask me to scaffold it in Build mode.

Status: idle. Open ⚙️ Admin to configure a feed.

📰 Latest confirmed results baked in

Canada 1–0 South Africa (FT) · Brazil 2–1 Japan (FT) · Paraguay stunned Germany 1–1 (4–3 pens). 15 Round-of-32 ties still to play.

⚙️ Admin / Settings

Configure the live data feed and auto-refresh. Settings are saved in your browser (localStorage) and persist across reloads.

⚠️ Security: anything entered here lives in the browser and is visible in DevTools. For a public site, use a Proxy URL (option 3) so your real API key stays on the server.

Data source

API key

Get a free key: football-data.org (10 req/min) or API-Football (100 req/day).

Auto-refresh mode

Adaptive = poll fast only when a game is live/near. Best for quota.

Settings idle.

Insights & demos

FIFA World Cup 2026 — Bracket & Winner Predictor