WORLD CUP
2026

The World Cup final is the single biggest match in all of sport. After a whole month of games, two teams are left standing, and just ninety minutes decide which nation lifts the golden trophy and which goes home heartbroken. Billions of people around the world stop whatever they are doing to watch, making it the most viewed event on the planet. The pressure on the players is enormous, because a final is remembered forever. Score the winning goal and you become a hero in your country for the rest of your life. Make one costly mistake and it may be replayed for decades. This is why finals so often produce the most incredible drama, with last-minute goals, stunning comebacks, and shocks that nobody saw coming. Sometimes the team everyone expected to win crumbles, and a brave underdog steals the crown. Other times a final swings back and forth until the very last kick. In this comic we relive the most famous finals and the biggest upsets in World Cup history, the matches that football fans still argue and dream about today.