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How have debutant teams performed at the FIFA World Cup?

Four nations will make debuts at the 2026 World Cup, with Cape Verde, Curacao, Jordan and Uzbekistan set to grace the grandest stage in international football for the first time. It will be the tournament with the most newcomers since 2006 and all will have ambitions of ending a 16-year wait for a debutant to reach the knockout stages.

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The 2026 World Cup is set to be a historic tournament, unlike any that have come before it. Expanded to 48 teams for the first time and spread across three countries - the United States, Canada and Mexico - it promises to be the biggest spectacle in the competition’s near-100-year history.

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It's so close you can almost touch it. After years of build-up, the 2026 World Cup will kick-off on Thursday when co-hosts Mexico face off against South Africa in a repeat of the opening game from 2010. Over the next five-and-a-half weeks, records will be broken and legacies rewritten as a number of modern greats do battle to win the most recognisable trophy in all of sport.

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	+/-	PTS	Form
2	Simba SC	25	17	7	1	45	10	35	58	W W W W W
3	Azam FC	25	14	10	1	38	9	29	52	W W W L W
4	Singida Black Stars	25	12	5	8	34	27	7	41	W L W W W
5	JKT Tanzania	25	9	11	5	27	26	1	38	D D D W L
6	TRA United	25	10	7	8	31	24	7	37	L W D W L

How have debutant teams performed at the FIFA World Cup?

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