For the next six weeks or so, @notcontrary ‬⁩& I are playing #flagwatch again, this time for #WorldCup2026.

Feel free to join us, or to mute the hashtag.

The game runs from local midnight where you are on the day the first game starts, to the end of the day of the final whistle of the last game. In most places that’s midnight Thursday 11th June to just before midnight on Monday 20th July.

Compete by tooting a fresh picture of a competing nation’s flag with #flagwatch & their country-code hashtag:

A: #MEX #RSA #KOR #CZE
B: #CAN #BIH #QAT #SUI
C: #BRA #MAR #HAI #SCO
D: #USA #PAR #AUS #TUR
E: #GER #CUW #CIV #ECU
F: #NED #JPN #SWE #TUN
G: #BEL #EGY #IRN #NZL
H: #ESP #CPV #KSA #URU
I: #FRA #SEN #IRQ #NOR
J: #ARG #ALG #AUT #JOR
K: #POR #COD #UZB #COL
L: #ENG #CRO #GHA #PAN

If Uzbekistan wins or ties today against UAE, they will - for the first time ever - have qualified for the FIFA world cup final tournament!

If not they still have a path to the final tournament, but it gets messy.

#fifa2026 #worldcup #uzb #uae #afc

#UFWC | Last 25 Years Ranking
Issue 104 (02.05.1997 - 01.05.2022)

🥇 #NED 🇳🇱
🥈 #ITA 🇮🇹
🥉 #ARG 🇦🇷
(4) #FRA 🇫🇷 🏆

(6) #GER 🇩🇪

(28) #DEN 🇩🇰

(38) #UKR 🇺🇦 (🔼5)
(39) #SRB 🇷🇸 #UZB 🇺🇿 #KUW 🇰🇼 (🔽1)
(42) #POR 🇵🇹 (🔽1)
(43) #AUS 🇦🇺 (🔽1)