Group B

Qatar Qatar

Hosting rights got them to 2022, where they became the first host nation to exit in the group stage. The Aspire Academy has built a generation with genuine technical training, but the physical and experiential gap against international opposition is real. No home crowd this time. The gap has not narrowed enough.

This profile summarizes Qatar'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 0%
Squad market €19.9m
Avg age 29.5
Avg height 1.818m
Manager Julen Lopetegui
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 Qatar'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 0%
2nd 0%
3rd place 0% Qualified from 3rd 0% Eliminated in 3rd 0%
4th 100.0%

Tournament

Stage reach probabilities

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

Conditional path

Path by group finish

Finish Sample R32R16QFSFFinalChampion
1st No longer possible ——————
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

No opponent samples.

R16

No opponent samples.

QF

No opponent samples.

SF

No opponent samples.

Final

No opponent samples.

Finish 1st

Qatar 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

Qatar 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

Qatar 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 Meshaal Barsham 28 1,80m Al-Sadd SC €700k
GK Mahmoud Abunada 26 1,91m Al-Rayyan SC €400k
GK Salah Zakaria 27 1,88m Al-Duhail SC €400k
CB Lucas Mendes 35 1,84m Al-Wakrah SC €350k
CB Al-Hashmi Al-Hussain 22 1,84m Al-Arabi SC €250k
CB Issa Laye 28 1,88m Al-Arabi SC €200k
CB Boualem Khoukhi 35 1,80m Al-Sadd SC €200k
CB Pedro Miguel 35 1,82m Al-Sadd SC €150k
LB Homam Al-Amin 26 1,88m Cultural Leonesa €500k
LB Sultan Al-Brake 30 1,75m Al-Duhail SC €300k
RB Ayoub Al-Oui 21 1,87m Al-Gharafa SC €375k
DM Mohamed Al-Mannai 22 1,89m Al-Shamal SC €500k
DM Jassem Gaber 24 1,88m Al-Rayyan SC €500k
DM Assim Madibo 29 1,68m Al-Wakrah SC €350k
DM Ahmed Fathi 33 1,71m Al-Arabi SC €250k
DM Karim Boudiaf 35 1,87m Al-Duhail SC €175k
CM Abdulaziz Hatim 35 1,83m Al-Rayyan SC €250k
AM Hasan Al-Haydos 35 1,74m Al-Sadd SC €300k
CF Almoez Ali 29 1,80m Al-Duhail SC €2.5m
CF Mohammed Muntari 32 1,94m Al-Gharafa SC €200k
LW Akram Afif 29 1,77m Al-Sadd SC €8.0m
LW Edmílson Junior 31 1,80m Al-Duhail SC €1.8m
LW Yusuf Abdurisag 26 1,77m Al-Wakrah SC €275k
LW Tahsin Mohammed Jamshid 19 1,77m Al-Duhail SC €200k
RW Ahmed Al-Ganehi 25 1,78m Al-Gharafa SC €500k
CF Ahmed Alaaeldin 33 1,77m Al-Rayyan SC €300k

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