{"id":580170,"date":"2025-11-19T09:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/580170\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T09:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:58:12","slug":"world-cup-2026-which-players-and-teams-are-not-going-to-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/580170\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: Which players and teams are not going to tournament?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Europe (Uefa)<\/b>: Slovenia, Greece, Belarus, Georgia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Armenia, Cyprus, San Marino, Iceland, Azerbaijan, Finland, Malta, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Liechtenstein, Serbia, Latvia, Andorra, Faroe Islands, Montenegro, Gibraltar, Luxembourg, Israel, Moldova, Russia*<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Asia (AFC)<\/b>: Mongolia, Maldives, Guam, Sri Lanka*, Macau, Cambodia, Timor-Leste, Brunei, Bhutan, Laos, India, Afghanistan, Syria, Myanmar, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Chinese Taipei, Turkmenistan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Philippines, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Nepal, Lebanon, Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan, North Korea, Oman, Palestine, Kuwait, Indonesia, China, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Africa (CAF)<\/b>: Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Sudan, Togo, Mauritania, South Sudan, Nigeria, Benin, Lesotho, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Libya, Angola, Mauritius, Eswatini, Niger, Tanzania, Zambia, Congo*, Eritrea*, Gabon, Gambia, Kenya, Burundi, Seychelles, Uganda, Mozambique, Guinea, Botswana, Somalia, Namibia, Liberia, Malawi, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe, Madagascar, Mali, Comoros, Central African Republic<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">North and Central America (Concacaf)<\/b>: Turks and Caicos Islands, US Virgin Islands, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Bahamas, Saint Lucia, Aruba, Barbados, Guyana, Montserrat, Belize, Dominican Republic, Dominica, British Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Anguilla, Guatemala, El Salvador, Trinidad and Tobago, Bermuda, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">South America (CONMEBOL)<\/b>: Venezuela, Peru, Chile<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Oceania (OFC)<\/b>: Cook Islands, American Samoa, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Samoa, Tahiti, Fiji<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">*denotes countries who were either suspended or served suspensions for either all or part of World Cup qualifying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Europe (Uefa): Slovenia, Greece, Belarus, Georgia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Armenia, Cyprus, San Marino, Iceland, Azerbaijan, Finland, Malta, Lithuania, Kazakhstan,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-580170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}