Six days to go.
You can feel the anticipation building. The teams are arriving, the fans are converging, and Shakira and Burna Boy’s official World Cup song is becoming a bit of an earworm. It’s no ‘Waka Waka’, but we’re sure we’ll be humming it constantly by the end of June.
In today’s SVQ we’ll be looking at the average age of each 2026 World Cup squad and bringing you our group stage predictions via the Opta supercomputer.
We also have an Ask Opta question about potent goalscorers, and as it’s Friday, how about a five-question World Cup quiz? Don’t worry, we’ll bring back ‘Missing Players’ next week.
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Anyway, let’s get on with more World Cup previewing…
👴 STAT - Which Nation Has the Oldest Squad?
All the World Cup squads have been confirmed, so now we can have a good old look through them.
Speaking of old, one thing we can confirm now is which country has named the, shall we generously say, ‘most experienced’ squad, in age rather than caps.
For the sake of this, we’ll use what the players’ ages will be on the first day of the World Cup (11 June).