The 2026 World Cup archive

Tournament complete · Spain are champions · data frozen 20 July 2026

Perfect Eleven started as a World Cup game. The tournament finished, the Premier League season started, and the site moved with it — but none of the World Cup was thrown away. Every squad, every mode and every board from 2026 is still here, exactly as it ended.

Everything on this page is frozen. The live stats feed stopped on 20 July 2026, the day after the final. Ratings, form arrows and standings do not move any more, and the Bracket and Awards stopped accepting entries when the semi-finals were drawn. Nothing here is a live competition — the live one is the Premier League season.

The draft modes

These run on the 48 tournament squads as they were named for 2026, and they are part of the season pass along with the two archive dailies and head-to-head.

Classic Spin a nation, pick one of its players, repeat until your eleven is complete. Chemistry comes from shared leagues, so eleven stars from eleven different leagues link badly.
Tactical The wheel lands on a position instead of a nation and deals you candidates for it. Fewer skips, and no out-of-position penalty to worry about.
Top 50 The same draft, narrowed to the tournament’s highest-ranked nations.
Legends All-time greats instead of the 2026 squads, with club, nation and era chemistry.
World Cup Daily and Legends Daily One shared sequence a day, the archive versions of the daily puzzle. Same twelve spins for everyone
World Cup Head-to-Head Send a friend a link and you both build from an identical spin sequence, then compare.

▶ OPEN THE ARCHIVE MODES

Perfect Bracket

A tournament-long prediction game: who finished first and second in all twelve groups, and who lifted the trophy. It scored itself as real results landed, with a bonus for calling the champion. The 2026 bracket is final and closed to new entries — the board is a record of how everyone’s call finished, not something you can still enter.

See the final bracket standings →

Tournament Awards

Golden Boot, Golden Ball, Golden Glove and the rest, called before they were decided and scored against the tournament’s own statistics. One caveat, stated the same way it is on the board itself: no official winner list was ever entered, so every result shown is a projection from tournament statistics — most goals, most assists, most Man of the Match awards — rather than an announced award.

See the awards board →

All 48 squads

Every nation that played, with the squad as it was named for the tournament: the players, their clubs, positions and ratings.

Browse all 48 squads →

Written about the tournament

The best XI of the 2026 World Cup — one team from all 48 squads.
World Cup 2026 power rankings — the nations by squad strength.
The groups guide — how the twelve groups were drawn.

Why it is here and not on the homepage

The homepage is a Premier League product now, because that is the competition actually being played. The archive used to sit above the fold there, which made a finished tournament the first thing a new visitor met. It lives here instead, linked from the footer and the guides, and the modes still launch in the same engine — nothing was deleted, it just stopped presenting itself as this week’s news.

Perfect Eleven is an independent, unofficial fan project by SportsMarket LLC. Not affiliated with FIFA or the Premier League. Ratings are editorial — see the ratings methodology.
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