2024 Kings World Cup

The 2024 Kings World Cup was an international seven-a-side football tournament featuring teams from the Kings League and the Américas Kings League, plus twelve teams from other future international versions of the Kings League, which made their debut in the tournament as wildcards. This is the inaugural edition of the Kings World Cup, and it was held in Mexico from 26 May to 8 June 2024. On 20 April, it was announced that the tournament finals would be held at Estadio BBVA in Monterrey.

Format
The Kings World Cup is being contested with some features of a Swiss-system tournament, with a first stage involving a total of 40 matches, structured as follows:
 * In the first round, the 32 teams each play one match, with the pairings decided by a draw. This is a completely random draw, with no restrictions based on nation coincidence.
 * All teams will move on to the second round, with the teams that won their first-round match going to a 'winner bracket' and the teams that lost going to a 'loser bracket'.
 * The teams of the 'winner bracket' that win their second round match will immediately qualify for the knockout stage, while the losing teams will face the winning teams from the 'loser bracket' in a last-chance round. The winners of the last-chance round will join the 'winner bracket' second-round winners in the knockout stage.
 * The knockout phase will then consist of a round of 16, quarterfinals, semifinals and a final. The winners will receive a million-dollar cash prize.

Kings League
President: 🇪🇸 Gerard Piqué

Américas Kings League
President: 🇲🇽 Miguel Layún

Squads
As usual in the Kings League, teams will field a regular roster of ten drafted players, plus guest 11th, 12th and 13th Players.

Players included in the initial/drafted 10 players for each team included FIVE FC's Manny Brown and Tom Clare. Brown is an English Sunday league footballer and YouTuber and the brother of Tobi "TBJZL" Brown of the Sidemen, while Clare is an English semi-pro footballer who was on Love Island's ninth and All-Stars series.

Manager: 🇪🇸 Pol Coma
 * 🇪🇸 1K FC

Manager: 🇦🇷 Sergio Verdirame
 * 🇪🇸 Aniquiladores FC

Manager: 🇲🇽 Jacques Passy
 * 🇲🇽 Club de Cuervos

Manager: 🇧🇪 Rocky Peeters
 * 🇧🇪 Deptostra FC

Manager: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Dean Saunders
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 FIVE FC

Manager: 🇫🇷 Saïd Dorbani
 * 🇫🇷 Foot2Rue

Manager: 🇧🇷 Dudu Oliveira
 * 🇧🇷 Furia FC

Manager: 🇧🇷 Víctor Taube
 * 🇧🇷 G3X FC

Manager: 🇲🇽 Lucas Ayala
 * 🇩🇴 Galácticos del Caribe

Manager: 🇪🇸 Pau Moral
 * 🇪🇸 Jijantes FC

Manager: 🇦🇷 Martín Posse
 * 🇪🇸 Kunisports

Manager: 🇹🇷 Burak Kaymak
 * 🇹🇷 Limon FC

Manager: 🇲🇽 Efraín Velarde
 * 🇺🇸 Los Aliens 1021

Manager: 🇪🇸 Èric Bartra
 * 🇪🇸 Los Troncos FC

Manager: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jason Murray
 * 🇨🇴 Medallo City

Manager: 🇦🇷 Ricardo La Volpe
 * 🇦🇷 Muchachos FC

Manager: 🇯🇵 Tatsuro Inui
 * 🇯🇵 Murash FC

Manager: 🇲🇽 Alejandro Castro
 * 🇲🇽 Olimpo United

Manager: 🇲🇽 Ángel Reyna
 * 🇲🇽 Peluche Caligari

Manager: 🇲🇽 Víctor Chaires
 * 🇵🇪 Persas FC

Manager: 🇪🇸 Arnau Jariod
 * 🇪🇸 PIO FC

Manager: 🇪🇸 Nacho Castro
 * 🇪🇸 Porcinos FC

Manager: 🇲🇽 Severo Meza
 * Raniza FC

Manager: 🇪🇸 Pol Font
 * Real Titán

Manager: 🇪🇸 Daniel Romo
 * 🇪🇸 Saiyans FC

Manager: 🇮🇹 Luca Diddi
 * 🇮🇹 Stallions

Manager: Abdullah Al-Shehri
 * SXB FC

Manager: 🇺🇦 Valeriy Fedorchuk
 * 🇺🇦 UA Steel

Manager: 🇪🇸 Álex Martínez
 * 🇪🇸 Ultimate Móstoles

Manager: 🇲🇽 Gabriel España
 * 🇨🇴 West Santos FC

Manager: 🇪🇸 Víctor González
 * 🇪🇸 xBuyer Team

Manager: 🇲🇪 Damir Agovic
 * 🇩🇪 Youniors FC

Broadcasting rights
Aside from the usual livestreams on Twitch and YouTube, both from the official Kings League channels and the teams' chairpersons, the Kings World Cup will also be airing on the following channels and platforms:

Redemption Game
The Redemption Game was a play-in contested on 25 May, the day before the official start of the tournament, onsite in Mexico City. The four Kings League teams and the four Américas Kings League teams that did not qualify directly (9th through 12th place in both leagues' most recent splits) played each other for the last remaining four spots in the tournament, with a Spanish team facing an Américas Kings League team in each instance.


 * Teams in the Redemption Game


 * Matches

First round
The first round was contested from 26 to 28 May 2024.

Winners' Bracket
The Winners' Bracket teams who win their second-round match will advance to the knockout stage; the losing teams will go to the last-chance round.

Losers' Bracket
The Losers' Bracket teams who win their second-round match will go to the last-chance round; the losing teams will be eliminated from the World Cup.

Last-chance round
Winning teams advance to the knockout stage, losing teams are eliminated from the World Cup.

Knockout stage

 * Qualified teams


 * Bracket