What Las Diablas and Los Diablos have to do to go to the 2026 World Cup

This Sunday, March 1, Santiago de Chile will host two of the four World Cup qualifiers that will lead to the World Cup in the Netherlands and Belgium which will be held from August 15 to 30, 2026. The “Claudia Schüler” National Stadium will host eight men’s teams and eight women’s teams, including Las Diablas and Los Diablos. But, What is the World Cup, what does it consist of and what does Chile need to go to the 2026 World Cup?

A total of 16 teams from each branch (ladies and gentlemen) are fighting for the seven total places there are for each gender in the World Cup. The 16 are divided into two tournaments of eight. The two men’s competitions will be in Santiago, Chile and Ismailia, Egypt, and the two women’s events will be in Santiago, Chile and Hyderabad, India. Those in Chile begin between Sunday the 1st and Monday the 2nd. In each tournament the eight countries are divided into two zones of four.

Las Diablas and Los Diablos, to qualify for the 2026 World Cup, will need to finish in the first three places in the tournament or finish as the 4th best ranked between both competitions. That is, Chile must be champion, runner-up, bronze medalist or 4th best in the ranking of the two tournaments.

The Devils will share group A with Wales (Sunday 1st at 7:45 p.m.), Scotland (Tuesday 3 at 8:15 p.m.) and France (Wednesday 4 at 8:15 p.m.) and in group B there will be Canada, Ireland, South Korea and Poland.

On the female side, Las Diablas will also be in group A with Switzerland (Monday 2 at 7:45 p.m.), Australia (Wednesday at 3:45 p.m.), France (Thursday 5 at 7:45 p.m.), while Canada, Ireland, Japan and Malaysia will be in group B.

The first two teams in each Group will qualify for the semifinals. That is to say that the first objective of Chileans is to reach that stage.