About

38-0 World Cupis a love letter to World Cup history, dressed up as a game. Spin a slot machine, get a random nation and a specific tournament they played in — Brazil 1970, Croatia 1998, anyone's 2026 squad — and draft one real player into your XI. Eleven spins, eleven picks, then a simulation tells you how far your team goes.

The 8-0-0

A team that wins the World Cup plays eight matches. Win all eight with no draws and no defeats and you've gone 8-0-0— a perfect, unbeaten tournament. Do that across history and you're the international answer to a 38-game unbeaten league season. That's the holy grail, and it's brutally hard.

The data

Behind the game sits every nation that qualified for the 2026 World Cup, across every tournament they've ever played in — thousands of real players, each with an era-accurate rating and a career-peak rating. The numbers are our own estimates, made with love and a lot of squad lists; they're built to be fun and fair, not official.

Who made it

Built by Angus Lampsas an independent project, launched for the 2026 World Cup. It's a fan tribute, not affiliated with FIFA or any official body. If it made you smile, or rage at the wheel for handing you Saudi Arabia 2018 again — that's the idea.

Say hello, report a dodgy rating, or talk sponsorship: angus@lamps.works.