Group
Group E
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.
Forecast as of Updated 2026-07-15 10:47 UTC, based on 10k current-state simulations. Tournament-wide official results included at that time stay fixed. These are saved model forecasts, not the team's actual final finish.
Tournament-wide result cutoff: 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.
Other forecast pages may show a different saved date. The interactive replay simulator is separate: changing Team Strength settings creates alternative scenarios without changing this saved forecast.
Tournament
Stage reach probabilities
Conditional path
Path by group finish
| Finish | Sample | R32 | R16 | QF | SF | Final | Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
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
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
| 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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