The 2026 FIFA World Cup begins June 11th. This years tournament is being held in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. You have until the start of the tournament to enter the various free-to-play World Cup fantasy games, World Cup brackets, World Cup survivor and World Cup picks contests to set yourself up to win prizes during this years World Cup.
Below I’ve created a list of free contests you can join leading into the World Cup. I’ve separated the fantasy, brackets, and picks contests into different categories. I will be adding more contests when they are announced as we get closer to the start of the 2026 World Cup.
Do you know of free-to-play World Cup contests not included on the list? I so please email us with a link to the contest and I will have it added to this page.
Free World Cup Contests
Bracket Contests
The bracket contests work the same as March Madness brackets. You pick the two teams to advance from each group, and then pick which teams will advance through each knockout stage, until you arrive at a winner. Make sure you read the scoring and rules for each contest.
- MyBookie.ag $25K World Cup Elimination Stage Bracket
- Total Prize Pool: $25,000
- Contest Starts: Round of 32 (June 28th)
- Prize Distribution: Top 250 Places
- 1st Place: $5,000
- 2nd Place: $2,500
- 3rd Place: $2,000
- Continuing to decrease down to $35 for 250th place.
- How It Works:
- Pick the winners throughout the knockout stage of the World Cup.
- Round of 32 (2 points), Round of 16 (4 points), Quarter Finals (8 points), Semi-Finals (16 points), Finals (32 points).
- Price: $10 per entry
- Contest Grade: B
- Splash $10K Free-to-Play World Cup Challenge
- Total Prize Pool: $10,000
- Contest Starts: Group Stage (June 11th)
- Prize Distribution: Top 100 Places
- 1st Place: $1,250 Splash Cash
- 2nd Place: $750 Splash Cash
- 3rd Place: $500 Splash Cash
- Continuing to decrease down to $50 Splash Cash for 100th place.
- How It Works: Submit finishing position for each country in group stage, and then submit picks for knockout stage in a standard bracket format.
- Correct Group Stage Finishing Position (1 point), Round of 32 (1 point), Round of 16 (2 points), Quarter Finals (4 points), Semi-Finals (8 points), Finals (16 points).
- Price: Free To Enter (Must have Splash Sports Account)
- Contest Grade: B
- **SplashSports.com is also running 2 massive Survivor Contests for the World Cup ($100 entry contest with $2,000,000 guaranteed, and $1000 entry contest with $1,000,000 guaranteed).
Predictions Contests
There are also World Cup contests that just require you to make a few picks on World Cup propositions.
- MyBookie.ag $25K World Cup Pick’em Contest 2026
- Total Prize Pool: $25,000
- Contest Starts: Group Stage (June 11th)
- Prize Distribution: Top 250 Places
- 1st Place: $5,000
- 2nd Place: $2,500
- 3rd Place: $2,000
- Continuing to decrease down to $35 for 250th place.
- How It Works: Select 25 winning teams against the spread during the Group Stage of the 2026 World Cup. 1 point for every correct pick (0.5 points for pushes).
- Price: $10 per entry (buy 2 entries get 1 free)
- Contest Grade: B
Fantasy Contests
Sorare.com is running some fun and great value fantasy sports competitions for the 2026 World Cup. They have a new free-to-play format (Sorare Sets) as well as their regular format where you compete with cards you purchase on the plastform.
- Sorare Global Cup
- Total Prize Pool: More than $150,000 in cash + Essence (used to craft in-season cards)
- In-Season Contests: Must use 4 in-season cards in your 5 card lineups.
- Hot Streak Contests
- Limited: $70,000 in shared prize pool for users who complete the 4th stage of the Hot Streak challenge. **Win essence as well for 2nd and 3rd stages.
- Rare: $35,000 in shared prize pool for users who complete 4th stage of Hot Streak challenge. **Win essence as well for 2nd and 3rd stages.
- Leaderboard Contests
- Super Rare & Unique: $26,800+ in cash prizes. Compete on leaderboards for cash prizes for 7 game weeks throughout World Cup tournament.
- Hot Streak Contests
- Classic Contests: Use 5 classic cards in your lineups
- Essence prizes for leaderboard contests for each scarcity (Limited, Rare, Super Rare, Unique).
- Contest Grade: B+
- Sorare Sets
- Free-to-play. Contest details will be added when available.
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