The Quidditch World Cup 2026

Ladies and Gentlemen, the much anticipated Quidditch World Cup has arrived, and this year, we're in for something of a treat, that much is for sure! We've had surprises a plenty this year, as many of the avid fans may have noticed along the qualification road! France have made a shock qualification in to this year's tournament, despite only managing to catch the Snitch once in their qualifying campaign, the somewhat talented Chasers rocked up enough points to gain qualification to the World Cup!

As we know, America have refused their place in this year's tournament, which allowed Saint Lucia a place in this year's competition -- all the best to them!

Without further ado, though, here come the qualified countries, sorted in to their groups. Remember, your team will have to play a game against each team in their group, and only the top two can progress to the knock out stages!


This year, we're not sure where the Quidditch World Cup will end up, so keep tuned here to find out how your team is getting on in the Quidditch Cup!

The Quidditch World Cup is now under way, and it promises to be a good summer with some pretty interesting teams making the final 32. Our analysis starts with Group A, though. With the hosts, Italy, being the Seeded team -- and most certainly not one of the best teams in the running -- we're hoping for some pretty good games throughout the group stage.

In Group A, Kyrgyzstan are hoping to join Italy in the final 16, but only time will tell...

Well, Group A gave us some hiccups in those who qualified for the next round, I wonder if Group B will off something of the same?

Group B's main contenders are Sao Tome & Principe and the Solomon Islands. Chile are noted down as the easy pickings for the round, but with the South Americans be able to put up a good fight and qualify.

Only time will tell folks, but let the games begin!

After our last couple of groups, I'm a little afraid to announce those likely to move through to the next round of the competition, when each of my predictions has shown to be wrong, ladies and gentlemen! Group C gives us varying levels of talent, though, with Barbados the bookies favourite to make it through to the Final 16.

The European teams on display in Group C are quite far apart when it comes to talent, too, with Spain having a turbulent route to the Final 16 -- they managed to clutch enough points by catching the Snitch to sneak past the English team everyone had been hoping to see this summer, so there may be a number of English people wanting revenge by seeing them leave in the first rounds.

As always, though, I'm holding my breath to see how this all pans out...

Phew...

Have we all caught our breath from that whirlwind of a ride? I'm not sure I have, and with such unexpected outcomes, I'm not even sure where to begin with my introduction to Group D! They have a lot to live up to, that's for sure!

Group D sees us turning our attention to Mauritius and Iraq's teams for the first and second place of this group. Iraq have been on fire in qualifications, thundering to very clear wins throughout their qualification campaign -- if we're looking to them for the high scores, this should be a good Group to follow.

As always, though, we won't know until the final game finishes who will be going through to the Final 16!

I have been asked by the Captain of San Marino not to mention how they're one of the bookies favourites for the tournament this year, ranked the second highest. And seeing as I have been asked nicely, I won't do this to them...

Zimbabwe are looking to progress to the last sixteen, with Germany waiting to be decimated by the others in the group -- they're the second worst ranked team in the world... how they're here, I will never be able to explain to you!

Still, it's the QWC!

This group is my personal favourite, because I totally put a Knut or two on Germany to progress! Love an outsider, but I've probably just wasted that...

Okay, okay, okay, I've got it this time...

No saying who should win. No saying who is bad.

Group F consists of Hong Kong, Saint Lucia, Republic of Ireland and Bosnia & Herzegovina. That's all I'm allowed to tell you guys...

May the best team win!

We're in to the penultimate group now, fans across the world are holding their breath in anticipation as the results for the last four teams to join the top sixteen are about to be announced. The final eight teams are all offering promising games, but only time will tell if expectations will be met.

Today, we move to Group G, consisting of the highest seed, the British Virgin Islands. We're hoping to see them move through to the final sixteen, but as we know from my previous commentary, not everything goes to plan!

Joining the British Virgin Islands in Group G are Malaysia -- note that the Malaysian team has caused massive controversy in their decision to be the only team in the whole World Cup to have an all female team! I may be a little biased when I say I want Malaysia to smash everyone out of the Cup, but do it for the girl power!

Honorary mentions for Cyprus and Argentina also joining us in Group G!

We're in to the final group stages now! Just Group H to finish off. And... well, this group is a little bit of a nothing group, truthfully. France are expected to go out in the first rounds -- but we know from my previous commentary it doesn't always work like that.

Macau, Montenegro and Azerbaijan are all 'okay' teams, no real stand out players, in truth, but none of them truly as awful as the French team -- sorry Monsieur Clement!

Will we see an upset? Merlin only knows!