The World Cup Starts in 5 Weeks. Does Your Group Have a Plan?
The World Cup Starts in 5 Weeks. Does Your Group Have a Plan?
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Every four years, football takes over the world. For 64 matches across six weeks, offices go quiet at inconvenient hours, group chats light up with takes, and everyone — including the person who once asked what offside means — suddenly has very strong opinions about who's lifting the trophy.
The 2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off on June 12. That's five weeks away.
Five weeks to test your knowledge. Five weeks to get your group together. Five weeks to make sure you're not the one confidently tipping the wrong team while everyone else watches.
Here's how to use The Tipoff to make this World Cup your best one yet.
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## Step 1: Find Out How Much You Actually Know
Before you start making bold tournament predictions, take a moment of honest self-assessment.
Who scored the most World Cup goals of all time? Which team went from winning the World Cup to being eliminated in the group stage just four years later? What year did a host nation fail to get out of the groups for the very first time?
Think you know? We've built two free World Cup quizzes to find out.
World Cup Basics is 25 questions covering the big moments and famous names — the kind of knowledge a genuine football fan should have. Good for warming up, good for sending to people in your group who think they know more than they do.
World Cup Expert is 25 questions that will genuinely challenge you. Historical records, obscure facts, moments most people have either forgotten or never knew. If you ace this one, you have standing to make bold predictions.
Both quizzes are free. Both take about 5 minutes. Both are worth sharing in your group chat before June 12 — nothing establishes the pecking order quite like a quiz score.
Take the World Cup Basics quiz →
Take the World Cup Expert quiz →
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## Step 2: Tip Every Match. Track Every Prediction.
Watching a World Cup match is enjoyable. Watching a World Cup match when you have a tip riding on it is a different experience entirely.
The Tipoff lets you tip every game in the tournament. Pick the winner before kick-off. Watch your accuracy build — or crumble — across 64 matches.
No money. No gambling. Just your football brain on the line.
Every tip you submit is tracked. Your accuracy is calculated in real time. By the time the final rolls around, you'll have a complete record of how sharp your football instincts actually are — not just the matches you got right.
That record is on your profile. Your group can see it. Choose your tips accordingly.
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## Step 3: Set Up Your Group Competition (This Is the Good Part)
Here's where it gets properly competitive.
Every friend group. Every workplace. Every family chat. There is always someone who claims to know more about football than everyone else.
The 2026 World Cup is your chance to settle it with data.
The Tipoff's My Circle feature lets you build a private leaderboard with just the people you choose. Follow your friends, your workmates, whoever's been most vocal about their predictions. Then watch the numbers tell the real story.
Across 64 matches spanning six weeks, the gap between genuine football knowledge and confident guessing becomes very clear, very fast. By the knockout rounds, the leaderboard doesn't lie.
The person at the top in July earned it. The person at the bottom has to live with it until 2030.
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## How to Get Your Group Set Up in 3 Minutes
Step 1: Sign up for free
Head to thetipoff.app. Create an account. It takes 60 seconds and it's completely free.
Step 2: Share the link with your group
Drop thetipoff.app into your group chat. Tell them the World Cup is coming and you want to settle who actually knows their football. That's enough motivation for most people.
Step 3: Follow each other
Once everyone's signed up, follow each other on The Tipoff. Go to the leaderboard and switch to My Circle. Your private group table is live immediately.
Step 4: Start tipping from June 12
The competition begins with the first match. Get your tips in before kick-off and you're in the running from game one.
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## Do This Now, Not When the Tournament Starts
Most people say they'll sort something out when the tournament starts. Then the group stage is three weeks in, half the group hasn't signed up, and the competition never quite happens.
The whole point of tipping a World Cup is to do it from game one. That's where the group stage upsets happen. That's where the early favourites stumble. That's where you either call it or you don't.
Five weeks is plenty of time. Get your group set up now so when June 12 arrives, everyone's ready to tip from kick-off.
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The Tipoff is free to play. Always. No subscriptions, no credits, no catch.
Just you, your group, 64 matches, and a chance to prove your football knowledge is as good as you've always claimed.
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Test yourself: World Cup Basics quiz →