FIFA World Cup 2026
Your World Cup Bracket Pool, on Autopilot
32-team knockout bracket, automatic standings. You focus on the matches — the app handles the rest.
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Spreadsheets, group chats, and manually scoring a 32-team knockout bracket
The 2026 World Cup is the biggest ever — 48 teams, 12 groups, and a 32-team knockout bracket. Tracking all of that in a spreadsheet is a nightmare.
Collecting brackets from friends means chasing people across group chats, texts, and email. Someone always forgets to submit before the first match.
With 31 knockout matches across 5 rounds, you're constantly updating scores and standings. By the time you post results, the next round has already started.
How It Works
Up and Running in Minutes
Create Your Pool
Name your pool, set point values for each knockout round, and share a link. Friends from anywhere in the world can join.
Make Your Picks
Round of 32
10 pts / Pick
Everyone fills out their bracket for the knockout stage. Pick winners from the Round of 32 through the Final.
Watch the World Cup
Scores and standings update automatically after every match, no matter what time zone the game is in.
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Guide
How FIFA World Cup Bracket Pools Work
The 2026 World Cup Tournament Format
The 2026 FIFA World Cup is the first to feature 48 national teams — expanded from 32. The tournament is hosted across the United States, Mexico, and Canada. It starts with a group stage: 12 groups of 4 teams each play a round-robin. The top 2 from each group advance, plus the 8 best third-placed teams, giving 32 teams in the knockout stage. The knockout bracket runs through the Round of 32, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and the Final.
What Is a World Cup Bracket Pool?
In a bracket pool, participants predict the winner of every knockout-stage match from the Round of 32 through the Final. Once the group stage is over and the 32 knockout teams are set, everyone fills out their bracket. You earn points for each correct pick, with later rounds typically worth more. The commissioner sets custom point values per round, so you can make the Final worth significantly more than a Round of 32 match — or keep it flat. The person with the most points after the Final wins.
The Biggest Knockout Bracket Yet
With the expansion to 48 teams, the 2026 World Cup knockout stage is larger than ever — 32 teams across 5 rounds. That means 31 matches to predict, from the Round of 32 through the Final. More matches means more chances for upsets, more points at stake, and a much harder bracket to fill out correctly. It also means more work for anyone trying to score a pool by hand.
Why the Knockout Stage Is Perfect for Bracket Pools
The expanded 32-team knockout bracket makes the 2026 World Cup especially well-suited for bracket pools. With 31 matches from the Round of 32 through the Final, there's plenty of room for upsets and bold predictions. National team tournaments tend to produce more surprises than club football, since international squads have less time to gel. That unpredictability is what makes World Cup bracket pools so competitive and entertaining.
Features
Your Pool, on Autopilot
Knockout Stage Bracket
From the Round of 32 to the Final, the entire knockout bracket in one place. Everyone fills it out and competes.
Custom Scoring Per Round
Make the Final worth more than earlier rounds, or keep scoring flat. You set the rules for your pool.
Live Standings
Scores update after every match. No more waiting for someone to crunch numbers in a spreadsheet.
Full Bracket or Round by Round
Let your group fill out the entire bracket at once, or open each round as the matchups are set. Your pool, your rules.
Built by a Commissioner, for Commissioners
I run a playoff pool with my family. Everyone used to email me their picks and I'd enter them into a spreadsheet. Every year it was the same story: chasing people for their picks, updating scores after every game, and manually fixing brackets when things went wrong.
So I built Playoff Pick'Ems to be the tool I wished existed. Just a simple way to run a bracket pool with the people you care about.
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Perfect for trying things out
- Host 1 pool
- Up to 10 members in your pool
- 1 entry per user
- Manual entries for offline players
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FAQ
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