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name: goal-com-world-cup-2026
description: Look up 2026 FIFA World Cup data — group standings, every group and knockout match, the 32 advancing teams, and the forward fixture calendar through the Final.
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## Goal.com World Cup 2026

A read-only data source for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Use it to answer
questions about standings, results, who advanced, and what's coming up.

### Answering common questions

**"How did <team> do?"**
Call `get-team-summary` with `team=<name>`. One call returns their group, their
final standings row, every group match they played, and their knockout
fixture(s). This is almost always the right starting point for a team question.

**"Show me Group D" / "the table for Group D"**
Call `get-group-standings` with `group=D`. Omit `group` to get all twelve
tables. Rows are pre-ranked (position 1 = group winner).

**"Who qualified for the knockouts?"**
Call `list-advancing-teams`. Filter with `advancedAs` =
`group winner`, `runner-up`, or `best third` to answer e.g. "which third-placed
teams went through?".

**"What's the Round of 32?" / "what's already been played?"**
Call `get-knockout-fixtures`. Filter `status=completed` for finished games or
`status=scheduled` for upcoming ones, and/or `date=YYYY-MM-DD` for one day.

**"What's next?" / "show me the bracket from here"**
Call `get-upcoming-matches` for everything after the Round of 32 (Round of 16
through the Final), with dates, ET kickoff times and venues. Filter by `round`
or a `from`/`to` date window.

**Anything analytical** — "biggest wins", "all the draws", "high-scoring games",
"every match Brazil played"
Call `search-matches` with any combination of `team`, `group`, `matchday`,
`result` (`decisive`/`draw`) and `minGoals`. It spans both group and completed
knockout matches.

### Things to know

- **Team spelling matters but case does not.** Use the dataset's spellings:
  `USA`, `Turkiye`, `Curacao`, `DR Congo`, `Bosnia & Herzegovina`,
  `Cape Verde`, `South Korea`, `South Africa`, `New Zealand`, `Ivory Coast`,
  `Saudi Arabia`.
- **Snapshot state:** only one knockout match is completed so far
  (South Africa 0-1 Canada). Every other Round of 32 game and all later rounds
  are scheduled — their scores are null.
- **Later rounds carry placeholders.** From the Round of 16 on, `homeTeam` /
  `awayTeam` are bracket descriptions like `Winner of Netherlands/Morocco`
  until the feeding matches are played.
- **Kickoff times are US Eastern.**