# GoalPulse — FIFA World Cup 2026 Multilingual Hub

> The most comprehensive multilingual source for FIFA World Cup 2026 (June 11 – July 19, 2026, USA · Canada · Mexico). Live scores, match schedules, team profiles, group standings and breaking news in 6 languages: English, 简体中文, 日本語, 한국어, Português (Brasil), and Tiếng Việt.

GoalPulse covers all 48 participating teams across 12 groups (A–L), 72 confirmed group-stage match pages, tournament facts, stadium guides and knockout placeholders until qualified teams are known. Data is sourced from football-data.org (official competition data), FIFA official tournament pages and openfootball/worldcup.json (public domain reference).
It also maintains six localized safety-first football odds terminology pages for search intents around live scores, handicap, water/price, over-under, European odds, Asian handicap, correct score, in-play terms, sports-lottery wording, betting-app/software queries, and high-risk betting-site queries. The pages include structured high-risk query maps for URL/app/login, arbitrage/software, correct-score, live-stream/score, qualifier/China/Asia, sports-lottery/prediction, odds-model/conversion, and fraud/manipulation intents. A reviewed Chinese keyword corpus maps 733 user-supplied football betting keyword rows into safe facts, live-score, odds, lottery, high-risk betting and non-core boundaries. These pages are educational only: GoalPulse does not recommend betting sites, apps, affiliate offers, arbitrage software, betting formulas, lottery purchase paths, or gambling tactics.

Brand identity: in this file, "GoalPulse" means **GoalPulse.io at https://goalpulse.io**, an independent FIFA World Cup 2026 information site. It is not the similarly named goal-setting app, App Store match tracker, football-tips subscription page, betting operator, bookmaker directory, affiliate funnel, or official FIFA property.

Editorial identity: article bylines and citation-map authors resolve to **GoalPulse Editorial** at https://goalpulse.io/en/about#editorial-profile. The editorial profile documents responsibility for source checks, localized article review, corrections, answer-engine citation boundaries and safe non-betting content limits.

## Tournament basics

- Dates: 2026-06-11 (opening match Mexico vs South Africa at Estadio Azteca) through 2026-07-19 (final at MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford NJ)
- Format: 48 teams in 12 groups of 4. Top 2 + 8 best third-placed teams advance to a 32-team Round of 32.
- Host cities: 11 in USA, 3 in Mexico, 2 in Canada (Toronto, Vancouver).
- Total matches: 104 (72 group stage + 32 knockout).

## Pages

- [Homepage](https://goalpulse.io/en): tournament overview, upcoming fixtures, group snapshot, top teams and localized direct-answer ItemList + FAQPage metadata for dates, hosts, team count, match count, defending champion and final venue
- [Match schedule](https://goalpulse.io/en/matches): full 72-match group stage with live status plus localized schedule-index and match-detail direct answers for dates, match count, search behavior, score updates, kick-off time, venue, stage and team rankings/coaches
- [All 48 teams](https://goalpulse.io/en/teams): grouped A–L with FIFA ranking plus localized teams-index and team-detail direct answers for team count, confederations, group assignment, coach, ranking, first match and qualification route
- [Group draw](https://goalpulse.io/en/groups): 12 groups × 4 teams, with localized groups-index and group-detail direct answers for teams, fixture windows, venues and qualification/third-place rules
- [Standings](https://goalpulse.io/en/standings): live group tables (P/W/D/L/GF/GA/GD/Pts), localized standings direct answers, tiebreaker context and third-place qualification rules
- [Stadiums](https://goalpulse.io/en/stadiums): 16 host venues with capacity, match count and localized stadiums-index and stadium-detail direct answers for venue count, largest stadium, location, capacity, hosted matches, teams and knockout-stage coverage
- [High-intent topic pages](https://goalpulse.io/en/goalpulse-world-cup-2026): eight localized SEO/GEO topic landings per language for GoalPulse.io brand disambiguation, schedule, UTC+8 Beijing/Singapore/Kuala Lumpur time, groups, standings, 48-team format, official viewing guidance and stadiums
- [Facts](https://goalpulse.io/en/facts): verified tournament facts, localized Dataset/CollectionPage/FAQ/ItemList structured data, direct-answer blocks, source links and JSON data download
- [Odds terms](https://goalpulse.io/en/football-odds-terms): search-safe football odds and live-score glossary with betting-risk boundaries, a risk-intent map and localized direct-answer ItemList + FAQPage metadata
- [Sources](https://goalpulse.io/en/sources): source register, verification workflow, correction policy and methodology
- [Editorial profile](https://goalpulse.io/en/about#editorial-profile): GoalPulse Editorial responsibility record for article review, corrections, source-policy ownership and non-betting boundaries
- [News](https://goalpulse.io/en/news): match previews, recaps, analysis; the news index has localized direct answers for article coverage, language coverage, update cadence and internal data paths. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese and Vietnamese article bodies have full localized coverage across all 12 editorial URLs, including group paths, format rules, watching guidance, stadium/travel context, player-watch narratives, contender profiles, opening-match preview, mascot/ball guide and safe non-betting boundaries
- [Site search](https://goalpulse.io/en/search): SearchResultsPage over matches, teams, groups, stadiums, articles, facts, trust pages, football terminology and safety-first risk-intent examples from the odds terminology map. Search pages expose localized direct-answer ItemList + FAQPage metadata, and long-tail Chinese queries are matched by normalized safe-intent fragments so factual venue/date searches route to verified facts while betting/software/reporting searches route to the risk-intent map
- [Human sitemap](https://goalpulse.io/en/sitemap): localized crawlable index for all major pages, machine-readable assets and sitemap FAQ guidance
- [AI citation map](https://goalpulse.io/data/ai-citation-map.json): per-URL answer summaries, preferred citation anchors, source evidence links and disallowed-claim boundaries for all 1116 localized public HTML URLs
- [AI citation hub](https://goalpulse.io/en/ai-citations): crawlable HTML companion for answer engines with localized canonical URLs, answer summaries, evidence anchors and do-not-claim guardrails
- [Keyword intent map](https://goalpulse.io/data/keyword-intent-map.json): localized safe-routing map for football odds, live-score, lottery, arbitrage and high-risk betting-operator queries, including preferred anchors and disallowed-response boundaries
- [Chinese football betting keyword corpus](https://goalpulse.io/data/football-betting-keywords-zh.json): 733-row Chinese query corpus, 713 unique keywords, seven safe-intent groups and per-keyword category tags for answer-engine routing
- [Release manifest](https://goalpulse.io/data/release-manifest.json): release-level evidence for route count, keyword corpus coverage, answer-engine assets and external receipt boundaries for top-ranking claims
- [AI decision methodology](https://goalpulse.io/data/ai-decision-methodology.json): model-card boundary for future probability, summarization, anomaly and recommendation modules, including Pro-review adoption verdicts, data layers, A/B experiment plans, risk register, required calibration, backtesting and non-betting guardrails
- [Privacy-safe analytics schema](https://goalpulse.io/data/privacy-safe-analytics-schema.json): specification-only first-party event schema for future measurement, with allowed fields, prohibited personal data, retention and opt-out requirements before tracking is enabled
- [RSS feed](https://goalpulse.io/en/feed.xml): latest editorial articles for feed readers and Google Discover follow discovery
- [Atom feed](https://goalpulse.io/en/atom.xml): Atom alternative for feed consumers
- [JSON Feed](https://goalpulse.io/en/feed.json): JSON Feed 1.1 for machine consumers

## Languages

- [English](https://goalpulse.io/en) (en)
- [简体中文](https://goalpulse.io/zh) (zh-Hans)
- [日本語](https://goalpulse.io/ja) (ja)
- [한국어](https://goalpulse.io/ko) (ko)
- [Português (Brasil)](https://goalpulse.io/pt-br) (pt-BR)
- [Tiếng Việt](https://goalpulse.io/vi) (vi)

## Groups (2026 draw)

- Group A: Mexico, South Korea, Czechia, South Africa
- Group B: Switzerland, Canada, Qatar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Group C: Brazil, Morocco, Scotland, Haiti
- Group D: USA, Paraguay, Türkiye, Australia
- Group E: Germany, Ecuador, Ivory Coast, Curaçao
- Group F: Netherlands, Japan, Sweden, Tunisia
- Group G: Belgium, Iran, Egypt, New Zealand
- Group H: Spain, Uruguay, Saudi Arabia, Cape Verde
- Group I: France, Senegal, Iraq, Norway
- Group J: Argentina, Austria, Algeria, Jordan
- Group K: Portugal, Colombia, Uzbekistan, DR Congo
- Group L: England, Croatia, Ghana, Panama

## Data sources

- [football-data.org v4 API](https://api.football-data.org/v4/competitions/WC) — official competition data, free tier 10 req/min
- [openfootball/worldcup.json](https://github.com/openfootball/worldcup.json) — public-domain historical reference

## Stack

Next.js 16 App Router, next-intl v4, Tailwind, deployed on Hetzner behind Cloudflare CDN. Static generation currently emits 1165 pages/routes, with 1116 public URLs in sitemap.xml and ISR for live scores. SportsEvent, SportsTeam, CollectionPage, SearchResultsPage, SiteNavigationElement, Dataset, DataDownload, FAQPage, ItemList, ProfilePage and DefinedTermSet JSON-LD on major entity, search, facts, terminology, trust, navigation and legal pages. Locale homepages include localized direct-answer ItemList + FAQPage graphs for tournament basics. Facts pages include localized direct-answer ItemList graphs for date, host, format, match count, final venue, third-place qualification and non-betting boundaries. Matches, teams, groups, stadiums, topic landing pages, daily today/tomorrow match pages and news index pages include localized direct-answer ItemList + FAQPage graphs for high-intent hub questions. Match detail pages include localized direct-answer ItemList + FAQPage graphs for kick-off time, venue, stage, team rankings and coaches. Team detail pages include localized direct-answer ItemList + FAQPage graphs for group assignment, coach, ranking, first match and qualification route. Group detail pages include localized direct-answer ItemList + FAQPage graphs for teams, fixture windows, venues and qualification/third-place rules. Stadium detail pages include localized direct-answer ItemList + FAQPage graphs for location, capacity, hosted matches, participating teams and knockout-stage coverage. Standings pages include localized direct-answer ItemList + FAQPage graphs for update timing, points, tiebreaker order and third-place qualification. Football-odds terminology and SearchResultsPage surfaces include localized direct-answer ItemList + FAQPage graphs plus localized keyword sets and result-level keyword fields for entity and risk-intent extraction. About pages include an #editorial-profile ProfilePage graph for GoalPulse Editorial, and NewsArticle author schema points to that editorial profile. The AI citation map at /data/ai-citation-map.json aligns every localized sitemap URL with an answerSummary, preferredCitation anchor, sourceEvidence list, author attribution and do-not-claim rules; localized /ai-citations pages expose the same answer map as crawlable HTML for answer engines. The keyword intent map at /data/keyword-intent-map.json maps football odds, live-score, lottery, arbitrage and high-risk betting-operator queries to safe locale pages, anchors, 713 Chinese corpus keywords and do-not-provide boundaries. The release manifest at /data/release-manifest.json ties route count, keyword SEO/GEO coverage, editorial trust, answer-engine assets and external proof requirements into one crawlable evidence file. The AI decision methodology at /data/ai-decision-methodology.json documents Pro-review adoption, future model-card, data architecture, experiment, calibration, evaluation and non-betting guardrails, and the privacy-safe analytics schema documents future first-party measurement boundaries without enabling tracking.

## Optional

- [robots.txt](https://goalpulse.io/robots.txt): crawler and answer-engine access policy with Last-Modified/ETag freshness headers
- [sitemap.xml](https://goalpulse.io/sitemap.xml): 1116 public URLs with hreflang alternates, stable content/entity lastmod values and Last-Modified/ETag freshness headers
- [news-sitemap.xml](https://goalpulse.io/news-sitemap.xml): recent editorial URLs for Google News discovery with Last-Modified/ETag freshness headers
- [image-sitemap.xml](https://goalpulse.io/image-sitemap.xml): generated Open Graph image URLs for locale homepages, article pages, team pages and match pages with Last-Modified/ETag freshness headers
- [world-cup-2026.json](https://goalpulse.io/data/world-cup-2026.json): machine-readable tournament graph for answer engines with localized tournament names, host-country names, sports labels and Last-Modified/ETag freshness headers
- [ai-citation-map.json](https://goalpulse.io/data/ai-citation-map.json): machine-readable citation map with 1116 localized URL entries, preferred anchors, evidence links, source priorities and Last-Modified/ETag freshness headers
- [AI citation hub](https://goalpulse.io/en/ai-citations): crawlable HTML index of canonical answer summaries, preferred citations, source evidence and disallowed claims
- [keyword-intent-map.json](https://goalpulse.io/data/keyword-intent-map.json): machine-readable keyword safety map with six localized entries, preferred targets, risk groups, search templates and Last-Modified/ETag freshness headers
- [football-betting-keywords-zh.json](https://goalpulse.io/data/football-betting-keywords-zh.json): reviewed Chinese football betting keyword corpus with 713 unique queries, seven categories, per-keyword category tags and Last-Modified/ETag freshness headers
- [release-manifest.json](https://goalpulse.io/data/release-manifest.json): route-count, keyword-corpus, answer-engine and external-proof manifest with Last-Modified/ETag freshness headers
- [ai-decision-methodology.json](https://goalpulse.io/data/ai-decision-methodology.json): AI decision/model-card guardrails, Pro-review adoption verdicts, data layers, experiment plan and risk register with Last-Modified/ETag freshness headers
- [privacy-safe-analytics-schema.json](https://goalpulse.io/data/privacy-safe-analytics-schema.json): privacy-safe measurement schema with Last-Modified/ETag freshness headers
- [feed.xml](https://goalpulse.io/en/feed.xml), [atom.xml](https://goalpulse.io/en/atom.xml), [feed.json](https://goalpulse.io/en/feed.json): six-locale feeds exposed in page `<head>` via alternate links with Last-Modified/ETag freshness headers
- [opensearch.xml](https://goalpulse.io/en/opensearch.xml): localized OpenSearch description for browser and search-provider discovery of GoalPulse site search with Last-Modified/ETag freshness headers
- [manifest.webmanifest](https://goalpulse.io/en/manifest.webmanifest): localized install metadata with shortcuts to search, matches, teams, football odds terms and source-backed facts, served with Last-Modified/ETag freshness headers; the root manifest and llms files also use crawler cache headers
- [sw.js](https://goalpulse.io/sw.js): service worker cache list covering repeat-visit discovery assets such as localized manifests, search, OpenSearch, sitemap, robots, feeds, llms files, the tournament dataset, the AI citation map, the keyword intent map and the Chinese keyword corpus
- [IndexNow key](https://goalpulse.io/c5a106fe5bf5801e402c5471d8fc88c0.txt)