Entity

World Cup

FIFA's quadrennial global soccer tournament — the most-watched sporting event on Earth.

As of 24 Oct 2026Last evidence 24 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Jillaroos show no mercy in ruthless annihilation of England at Rugby League World Cup

    Reported claim · first reported 24 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • FIFA announces USA to host first Women’s Club World Cup in 2028

    Reported claim · first reported 22 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • FIFA begins formal bidding process for U.S. broadcast rights to 2030 World Cup

    Reported claim · first reported 22 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • China-Saudi stadium deal puts Saudi World Cup ambitions in focus amid attacks

    Reported claim · first reported 21 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Egypt’s Hassan and Zico suspended over FIFA World Cup refereeing criticism

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 8 events and claims involving World Cup

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 46 mentions on 24 Oct 2026, against 41 on 3 Oct 2026 (+12%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 13 Oct 2026.
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 23 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

1,122 documents · 184 publishers · 13% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 24 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.132: about 87% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 1 receipt withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside World Cup

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

FifaFranceEnglandAfricaUnited KingdomGermanyArgentina
  • Fifa · 415 shared documents
  • Spanish · 328 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • France · 285 shared documents
  • England · 242 shared documents
  • Fifa World Cup · 228 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Africa · 217 shared documents
  • Asian · 176 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • United Kingdom · 172 shared documents
  • Germany · 153 shared documents
  • Argentina · 152 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 46 mentions on 24 Oct 2026 with 41 on 3 Oct 2026 (+12%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +119% from 9 Sept 2026 to 24 Oct 2026, between 6 and 49 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions World Cup, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

No open prediction market prices a question materially about World Cup yet. Ask about World Cup

No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/332f6c0e56f4f016d5ae05b1 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name world cup.

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving World Cup

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Jillaroos show no mercy in ruthless annihilation of England at Rugby League World Cup

    Reported claim · first reported 24 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • FIFA announces USA to host first Women’s Club World Cup in 2028

    Reported claim · first reported 22 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • FIFA begins formal bidding process for U.S. broadcast rights to 2030 World Cup

    Reported claim · first reported 22 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • China-Saudi stadium deal puts Saudi World Cup ambitions in focus amid attacks

    Reported claim · first reported 21 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Egypt’s Hassan and Zico suspended over FIFA World Cup refereeing criticism

    Reported claim · first reported 20 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • World Cup success for Far Eastern New Century

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Pix of the Day, 21st October, 2026 - Across the world

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Esports World Cup opens new global pathways to 2027 event

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

Walk the record from World Cup

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World Cup

Entity.

Evidence
1,122 documents · 184 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 12 Apr 2026, last seen 24 Oct 2026
Measured
13% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
24 Oct 2026
18 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (8)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.

Situations it is named in (0)

none on file at this cutoff

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names World Cup, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 13 Oct 2026.

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Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 24 Oct 2026.