{"id":350524,"date":"2025-12-02T15:54:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/?p=350524"},"modified":"2025-12-02T15:54:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:54:22","slug":"2026-fifa-world-cup-soccer-odds-and-betting-favourites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.northstargaming.ca\/admin\/nsgcms\/2026-fifa-world-cup-soccer-odds-and-betting-favourites\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA World Cup odds and 2026 betting favourites: Spain, England and France the favorites, Canada is a long shot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 2026 World Cup is less than a year away, so let&#8217;s look at the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The latest:<\/strong> Spain is favoured at the moment, followed closely by England, France, Argentina and Portugal. This tournament, hosted jointly between Canada, the United States and Mexico, will be the first to include 48 teams \u2014 up from 32 in past years. Les Rouges are a 250-to-1 long shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the latest FIFA World Cup odds for the 2026 soccer event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Country<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Odds<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Spain<\/td><td>+450<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>England<\/td><td>+650<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>France<\/td><td>+700<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Argentina<\/td><td>+800<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Portugal<\/td><td>+1,100<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Germany<\/td><td>+1,200<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Netherlands<\/td><td>+2,000<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Norway<\/td><td>+3,300<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Italy<\/td><td>+4,000<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Canada<\/td><td>+25,000<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northstarbets.ca\/sportsbook\/event\/1019275296\">Go to full FIFA World Cup odds here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 World Cup is less than a year away, so let&#8217;s look at the field. The latest: Spain is favoured at the moment, followed closely by England, France, Argentina and Portugal. This tournament, hosted jointly between Canada, the United States and Mexico, will be the first to include 48 teams \u2014 up from 32 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":382208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sidebar_plugin_meta_block_field":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[668,73],"tags":[229],"class_list":["post-350524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-productonly","category-football","tag-soccer"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>World Cup odds: Favourites for 2026 FIFA soccer event | NSB<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out our World Cup odds. 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