Entity

World Cup

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

As of 8 Oct 2026Last evidence 7 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Fifa reportedly allowed DR Congo into World Cup despite ineligible player in qualifying

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • EXCLUSIVE: Saudi Arabia quietly shelving NEOM Stadium, one of 2034 World Cup venues

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

All 2 events and claims involving World Cup

What changed

  • Attention World Cup has 55 mentions in tracked coverage: too few to measure a trend.
  • State Changes between snapshots: cannot measure, no state history is kept for World Cup yet.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 7 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

792 documents · 148 publishers · 33% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 7 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.328: about 67% 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.

FifaFranceEnglandAfricaGoogleGermany
  • Fifa · 287 shared documents
  • Spanish · 249 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • France · 188 shared documents
  • England · 168 shared documents
  • Fifa World Cup · 160 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Africa · 155 shared documents
  • Asian · 132 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Continue Reading · 123 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Google · 113 shared documents
  • Germany · 111 shared documents

World Cup has 55 mentions in tracked coverage. That is too few to measure a trend. Watch World Cup to hear when coverage grows, or request deeper coverage of World Cup.

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.

  • Fifa reportedly allowed DR Congo into World Cup despite ineligible player in qualifying

    Reported claim · first reported 6 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • EXCLUSIVE: Saudi Arabia quietly shelving NEOM Stadium, one of 2034 World Cup venues

    Reported claim · first reported 4 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

Walk the record from World Cup

Open where it comes from, follow a claim or a related name, and use the trail to come back. Every step says what it is, how it stands and when. Machines read the same record.

World Cup

Entity.

Evidence
792 documents · 148 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 7 Oct 2026
Measured
33% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
8 Oct 2026
12 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (2)

  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.

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. Sparse topics can mix unrelated senses of the word.

Ask about World CupWatch World Cup

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 8 Oct 2026.