Group E

Ivory Coast Ivory Coast

Generational transition in progress, and it is going reasonably well. The attacking talent is genuine: physical, pacy, and flair-driven. Defensively they are unreliable and the organization can disintegrate under sustained pressure. The Drogba era cast a long shadow but this team is slowly stepping out of it.

This profile summarizes Ivory Coast's World Cup 2026 simulation path from the latest current-state snapshot: group outlook, finish distribution, possible knockout routes, opponent pools, squad context, and title chances.

Champion 0%
Group qualification 100%
Squad market €525.9m
Avg age 25.9
Avg height 1.834m
Manager Emerse Faé
Current-state snapshot

This profile is based on 10k current-state simulations using the WC26 simulator engine. The numbers are a model snapshot, not a guarantee. Team ratings, squads and injury updates may change over time.

10k current-state simulations

Latest result included: France 0-2 Spain

Guide

How to read this team profile

Group finish and stage reach values are model outputs from the latest current-state team profile snapshot. Path sections show how Ivory Coast's route changes by group finish, while opponent pools summarize the teams most often appearing in each round.

This page uses Knockout-phase current-state snapshot using latest committed Match Updates, official locked results, current ratings, and fixed knockout bracket state as of 15 Jul 2026 1:47 PM UTC+3. Other public forecast pages may still use root compatibility datasets until they are updated separately, and custom Team Strength settings can change future tournament paths in the live simulator.

Group

Finish probabilities

1st 0%
2nd 100.0%
3rd place 0% Qualified from 3rd 0% Eliminated in 3rd 0%
4th 0%

Tournament

Stage reach probabilities

R32 100%
R16 0%
QF 0%
SF 0%
Final 0%
Champion 0%

Conditional path

Path by group finish

Finish Sample R32R16QFSFFinalChampion
1st No longer possible
2nd 100.0% 100%0%0%0%0%0%
3rd No longer possible

Overall opponent pool

Most common opponents by round

If reached shows the opponent split among this team's matches in that round. All sims shows how often the matchup happens across the latest current-state snapshot.

R32

Norway Norway If reached: 100.0% All sims: 100.0% Matchup win rate: 0%

R16

No opponent samples.

QF

No opponent samples.

SF

No opponent samples.

Final

No opponent samples.

Finish 1st

Ivory Coast opponent pool if finishing 1st

For group-finish paths, If reached is measured within that finish path and round. Path sims shows how often the matchup happens among simulations where the team finished in that position.

R32

No longer possible

R16

No longer possible

QF

No longer possible

SF

No longer possible

Final

No longer possible

Finish 2nd

Ivory Coast opponent pool if finishing 2nd

For group-finish paths, If reached is measured within that finish path and round. Path sims shows how often the matchup happens among simulations where the team finished in that position.

R32

Norway Norway If reached: 100.0% Path sims: 100.0% Matchup win rate: 0%

R16

Not enough samples.

QF

Not enough samples.

SF

Not enough samples.

Final

Not enough samples.

Finish 3rd

Ivory Coast opponent pool if finishing 3rd

For group-finish paths, If reached is measured within that finish path and round. Path sims shows how often the matchup happens among simulations where the team finished in that position.

R32

No longer possible

R16

No longer possible

QF

No longer possible

SF

No longer possible

Final

No longer possible

Squad

Current squad

26 players
Pos Player Age Height Club Market
GK Yahia Fofana 25 1,94m Caykur Rizespor €5.0m
GK Alban Lafont 27 1,96m Panathinaikos €3.0m
GK Mohamed Koné 24 1,86m Royal Charleroi SC €800k
CB Ousmane Diomande 23 1,90m Sporting CP €42.0m
CB Evan Ndicka 26 1,92m AS Roma €35.0m
CB Wilfried Singo 25 1,90m Galatasaray €23.0m
CB Emmanuel Agbadou 28 1,92m Besiktas JK €16.0m
CB Odilon Kossounou 25 1,91m Atalanta BC €15.0m
LB Christopher Operi 29 1,82m Basaksehir FK €4.0m
LB Ghislain Konan 30 1,76m Gil Vicente FC €3.0m
RB Guéla Doué 23 1,86m RC Strasbourg Alsace €18.0m
DM Ibrahim Sangaré 29 1,91m Nottingham Forest €22.0m
DM Jean Michaël Seri 34 1,68m NK Maribor €100k
CM Christ Inao Oulaï 20 1,73m Trabzonspor €23.0m
CM Franck Kessié 29 1,83m Al-Ahli SFC €12.0m
CM Seko Fofana 31 1,85m FC Porto €8.0m
LW Yan Diomande 19 1.80m RB Leipzig €90.0m
LW Bazoumana Touré 20 1,75m TSG 1899 Hoffenheim €40.0m
LW Simon Adingra 24 1,75m AS Monaco €25.0m
LW Parfait Guiagon 25 1,65m Royal Charleroi SC €5.0m
RW Amad Diallo 23 1,73m Manchester United €50.0m
RW Evann Guessand 24 1,88m Crystal Palace €28.0m
RW Nicolas Pépé 31 1,83m Villarreal CF €6.0m
CF Ange-Yoan Bonny 22 1,89m Inter Milan €35.0m
CF Elye Wahi 23 1,84m OGC Nice €12.0m
CF Oumar Diakité 22 1,82m Cercle Brugge €5.0m

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