FIFA revealed its World Cup groupings at a star-studded event in Washington, D.C., on Friday.

With the help of President Donald Trump, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, NFL legend Tom Brady, NBA great Shaquille O’Neal, New York Yankees superstar Aaron Judge, and the NHL’s greatest player of all time, Wayne Gretzky, all 12 groups were announced. 

All the aforementioned individuals selected random balls that contained the countries' names, and their selections assigned them to their groups. Trump, Sheinbaum and Carney all picked their own countries’ names to begin the process. 

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Brady selected the teams in Pot 1, O’Neal picked Pot 2’s teams, and Judge and Gretzky had Pots 3 and 4, respectively. 

While the groups were created on Friday, six of the 48 teams participating will only be known in March 2026. Four of them will come from the 16-team UEFA playoffs.

The countries competing in the UEFA play-offs are: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czechia, Denmark, Italy, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, North Macedonia, Poland, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine and Wales.

The remaining two spots will be decided at the FIFA World Cup 2026 Play-Off Tournament. The six teams competing in that tournament are Bolivia, Congo DR, Iraq, Jamaica, New Caledonia and Suriname.  

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Below are all 12 groups:

Mexico 

South Africa 

Korea Republic 

Winner UEFA Play-off D

Canada 

Winner UEFA Play-off A 

Qatar 

Switzerland

Brazil 

Morocco 

Haiti 

Scotland

USA 

Paraguay 

Australia 

Winner UEFA Play-off C

Germany 

Curaçao 

Côte d'Ivoire 

Ecuador

Netherlands 

Japan 

Winner UEFA Play-off B 

Tunisia

Belgium 

Egypt 

IR Iran 

New Zealand

Spain 

Cabo Verde 

Saudi Arabia 

Uruguay

France 

Senegal 

Winner FIFA Play-off 2 

Norway

Argentina 

Algeria 

Austria 

Jordan

Portugal 

Winner FIFA Play-off 1 

Uzbekistan 

Colombia

England 

Croatia 

Ghana 

Panama

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USA Gymnastics is facing another lawsuit for allegedly failing to protect female athletes from sexual abuse. The latest lawsuit alleges USA Gymnastics and the U.S. Center for SafeSport were informed about a coach, Sean Gardner, performing "inappropriate and abusive behaviors," but failed to properly investigate. 

The attorney representing the plaintiffs in the case, John Manly, who previously represented stars including Simone Biles in the Larry Nassar sexual abuse lawsuit against USA Gymnastics, called the organization's negligence "despicable," in a statement to Fox News Digital. 

"USA Gymnastics was aware of in 2017 that Gardner was a serious & present danger to children. USAG said nothing and permitted a predator to prey upon children in Iowa without warning to parents. Their conduct is shocking and despicable," Manly said. 

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A USA Gymnastics spokesperson told Fox News Digital in response, "As litigation is ongoing, we cannot offer comment."

The lawsuits allege all the defendants were negligent in how they responded to reports of Gardner’s misconduct, which included hugging and kissing girls and engaging in other grooming behaviors while coaching at a Mississippi gym.

The parents of a gymnast filed reports with USA Gymnastics and SafeSport in December 2017 alleging Gardner required girls to give him long hugs after every training in Mississippi and that he kicked one girl out who refused, the lawsuits claim. 

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Gardner allegedly had an improper closed-door meeting with a girl whom he verbally abused, kissed gymnasts on their foreheads, drank alcohol excessively in front of them, made sexual jokes to girls and inappropriate comments on social media, and stalked one girl who he was instructed to stop contacting, the lawsuits claim.

The FBI arrested Gardner in August on a federal child pornography charge. 

The arrest came more than three years after he was suspended from coaching at Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance Institute in West Des Moines, Iowa, for alleged sexual abuse.

Chow’s is the gym where U.S. gymnastics stars Shawn Johnson and Gabby Douglas trained before becoming gold medalists at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.

In April 2024, another of Chow’s former athletes came forward to the West Des Moines Police Department to report abuse allegations, according to a now-sealed affidavit signed by police detective Jeff Lyon.

A girl reported to SafeSport in March 2022 that Gardner used "inappropriate spotting techniques" in which he would put his hands between her legs, the affidavit said.

Among the evidence seized by investigators in late May was a cellphone, laptop and a desktop computer along with handwritten notes between Gardner and his former pupils, according to the sealed court documents.

They found images of girls, approximately 6 to 14 years of age, who were nude, using the toilet or changing into leotards, those documents show. Those images appear to have come from a hidden camera in a restroom.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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