The Rules

How it works.

Predict every match. Beat your friends. Here's exactly how the points work.

The basics

  • 48 teams. 12 groups. 104 matches. The 2026 tournament runs across the USA, Mexico and Canada from June 11 to July 19.
  • Predict every match. Submit a score for each fixture in the group stage and pick winners through the entire knockout bracket.
  • Predictions lock at kickoff. Once the tournament starts, your predictions are frozen — no more edits.
  • Points roll in automatically as match results are synced from the official source.

Match scoring

Every prediction can earn up to 5 base points per match (before knockout multipliers):

What you got rightPoints
Correct outcome (win / draw / loss)2
Home team's exact score1
Away team's exact score1
Exact scoreline bonus (both scores correct)+1

In knockout matches that go to penalties, the outcome is graded on the shootout winner. Pick the winner correctly and you still earn the outcome points; team-score points are always graded on the 90-minute scoreline.

Knockout multipliers

Stakes rise as the bracket narrows. Match points are multiplied by the round you're in:

Group stage
×1
Round of 32
×2
Round of 16
×4
Quarter-finals
×8
Semi-finals
×16
3rd-place play-off
×16
Final
×32

Knockout team-pick rule

Knockout slots resolve based on how the groups finish, so your scoreline only counts when you put the right team in the right slot:

  • Home goal point — only if you picked the actual home team for that slot.
  • Away goal point — only if you picked the actual away team for that slot.
  • Outcome points — only if at least one of your picked teams matches the actual matchup.
  • Exact-score bonus — only if both teams are correct AND the score is exact.

Example: M73 (2A vs 2B) ends Mexico 2–1 Canada. You predicted Mexico 3–1 Qatar. You correctly picked Mexico as 2A, so outcome points are awarded; the away "1 goal" point doesn't count because you had Qatar instead of Canada.

Group-standings bonus

Your predicted scores also imply a predicted final table for every group. Once a group finishes, you get bonus points for predicting which teams advance — and in what spot.

Positions 1 & 2 (per group)

  • 2 pts — team in the exact correct spot (1st or 2nd)
  • 1 pt — team predicted to advance, but in the other top-2 spot

Best 8 third-placed teams

After all 12 groups finish, the 8 best 3rd-placed teams across the tournament also advance. For each one:

  • 2 pts — you predicted that team would finish 3rd in its group
  • 1 pt — you predicted it would finish 1st or 2nd (still picked it to advance)
Maximum bonus: 12 groups × 4 pts + 8 advancers × 2 pts = 64 pts. Bonuses are awarded once, after all 72 group matches are finished.

A worked example

Suppose you predict a Round of 16 match 2-1 and the actual result is 2-0:

  • ✓ Correct outcome (home win) — 2 pts
  • ✓ Home team's exact score (2) — 1 pt
  • ✗ Away team's score (you said 1, actual 0)
  • ✗ No exact scoreline bonus

Subtotal: 3 pts. R16 multiplier ×4 12 pts for that match.

Leagues

Everyone competes on the global leaderboard by default.

Want to take on just your friends? Create a private league and share the invite code — you'll get a separate leaderboard for that group on top of the global one.

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