World Cup 2022 futures odds for title and group winners

World Cup betting favorites.

The 2022 FIFA World Cup draw was Friday afternoon, revealing the group stage pairings for each country in the field.

While three groups still have one team each to be decided, including the USA’s Group B with Iran, England and a fourth team that will be determined in the future, we largely know who each team needs to go through when play begins in November in order to reach the knockout stage.

Below are odds via Tipico Sportsbook for who advances from each of the completed groups, and top-10 odds for which country wins the whole thing later this year in Qatar.

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Italy failed to qualify for the World Cup AGAIN and the sports world was stunned

Another World Cup without Italy.

This past summer, it seemed like Italy was back as a global soccer power with the embarrassment of missing the 2018 World Cup far in the rearview mirror. The Azzurri won European championship in penalties against England at Euro 2020 (played in 2021). They shot up to No. 4 on the FIFA rankings.

And despite missing out on automatic qualification to the 2022 World Cup, Italy had a relatively favorable play-off path with North Macedonia awaiting in the semifinals. Well, Italy learned a hard lesson on Thursday about overlooking opponents because North Macedonia just made Italy miss its second straight World Cup.

With the score tied at 0-0 in the 92nd minute, North Macedonia’s goal kick deflected perfectly to Aleksandar Trajkovski who scored from distance.

Just like that, the European champions were out of the World Cup while North Macedonia could qualify for its first-ever World Cup with a win over Portugal (a huge ask, but they did just beat Italy).

When the final whistle sounded, Italy was understandably demoralized.

The rest of the sports world was shocked. North Macedonia did it!