The Rules

In order to play you must register your name and e-mail address and pay the £5 entry fee.

This is a non-profit making competition and all monies collected will be paid out in prize money.

You will have until the first game kicks off on the 11th of June 2026 20:00 (8 p.m. BST, London) to enter your first round of predictions and who you think the four semi-finalists will be (Pick in order you think they will finish as there are 5 extra bonus points for picking the actual winners!... Rule 15)

Each of the first five rounds will cover 6 games each (All from the Group matches)

Round six will be 6 games from the round of 32

Round seven will be 6 games from the Round of 16

Round eight will be 4 games, all of the Quarter Finals

Round nine will be 2 games, both Semi Finals

Round ten (The last round) will be 2 games, the 3rd/4th place play-off and The Final Itself

Each round closes at the kick off time of the first fixture of each round

Once an entry has been submitted, it can be edited before the closing time of that round, you cannot change your predictions after the closing time.

Players will receive 5 points for each correct score

Players will receive 2 points for each correct result

Players will receive 3 points for each correctly predicted draw that is not a correct score (i.e. predict 1-1 and the final result is 0-0)

Players will receive 5 bonus points for each correctly predicted semi-finalist and a further 5 bonus points for correctly picking the actual winners of the World Cup.

Please Note** In the knockout stages of the competition, predictions/ results are based on 90 minutes only (extra time goals and penalties will not count), therefore you may predict a draw in the knockout games

Should players be level on points at the end of the competition, the following tiebreakers will apply: Firstly the most amount of correct scores will determine the winner, should players still be level then the number of games where the correct result and goal difference has been predicted will be considered