Group A

Mexico Mexico

CONCACAF royalty at a crossroads. Technically gifted, experienced, and capable of beautiful football. The round of 16 curse is now officially a personality trait: seven consecutive eliminations at that stage. Aging core, familiar problems, same ceiling. At some point something has to change.

This profile summarizes Mexico'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 €194.6m
Avg age 27.9
Avg height 1.799m
Manager Javier Aguirre
Saved forecast

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.

10k current-state simulations

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 Mexico'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.

Group

Finish probabilities

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

Tournament

Stage reach probabilities

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

Conditional path

Path by group finish

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

Ecuador Ecuador If reached: 100.0% All sims: 100.0% Matchup win rate: 100.0%

R16

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

QF

No opponent samples.

SF

No opponent samples.

Final

No opponent samples.

Finish 1st

Mexico 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

Ecuador Ecuador If reached: 100.0% Path sims: 100.0% Matchup win rate: 100.0%

R16

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

QF

Not enough samples.

SF

Not enough samples.

Final

Not enough samples.

Finish 2nd

Mexico 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

No longer possible

R16

No longer possible

QF

No longer possible

SF

No longer possible

Final

No longer possible

Finish 3rd

Mexico 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 Raúl Rangel 26 1,90m Deportivo Guadalajara €6.5m
GK Carlos Acevedo 30 1,84m Santos Laguna €2.8m
GK Guillermo Ochoa 40 1,85m AEL Limassol €300k
CB Johan Vásquez 27 1,85m Genoa CFC €12.0m
CB César Montes 29 1,95m Lokomotiv Moscow €7.5m
CB Luis Romo 31 1,80m Deportivo Guadalajara €3.0m
LB Mateo Chávez 22 1,73m AZ Alkmaar €4.0m
LB Jesús Gallardo 31 1,78m Deportivo Toluca €2.8m
RB Israel Reyes 26 1,80m CF América €6.5m
RB Jorge Sánchez 28 1,81m PAOK Thessaloniki €2.2m
DM Edson Álvarez 28 1,90m Fenerbahce €15.0m
DM Érik Lira 26 1,72m CD Cruz Azul €12.0m
DM Luis Chávez 30 1,76m Dynamo Moscow €6.0m
CM Álvaro Fidalgo 29 1,74m Real Betis Balompié €10.0m
CM Obed Vargas 20 1,75m Atlético de Madrid €8.0m
CM Orbelín Pineda 30 1,69m AEK Athens €7.0m
AM Gilberto Mora 17 1,75m Club Tijuana €10.0m
AM Brian Gutiérrez 22 1,78m Deportivo Guadalajara €8.0m
LW Alexis Vega 28 1,74m Deportivo Toluca €8.0m
LW César Huerta 26 1,72m RSC Anderlecht €5.0m
RW Roberto Alvarado 27 1,76m Deportivo Guadalajara €7.5m
CF Santiago Gimenez 25 1,80m AC Milan €18.0m
CF Armando González 23 1,79m Deportivo Guadalajara €15.0m
CF Julián Quiñones 29 1,80m Al-Qadsiah FC €12.0m
CF Raúl Jiménez 35 1,87m Fulham FC €4.0m
CF Guillermo Martínez 31 1,90m UNAM Pumas €1.5m

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