Is Haiti eliminated from the World Cup? Yes. Haiti are out of the 2026 World Cup after losses against Scotland and Brazil, and their first World Cup since 1974 is over after only two rounds of group stage fixtures.
Five nations have already gone out after losing both opening matches, and Haiti are among them. The group stage will send home 16 nations in total, with all bottom-place finishers and the four third-placed teams with the worst records leaving the tournament.
Haiti and Group C
Haiti's exit was settled after back-to-back defeats in Group C. That ends a return to the tournament that had stretched back to 1974, with no route left to recover inside the group.
The format makes the damage from those first two games immediate. Head-to-head records now sit ahead of goal difference as the main tiebreaker for teams level on points, so early results carry more weight than a simple scoring margin would in a later round.
Other teams already out
Turkey were eliminated after successive defeats to Australia and Paraguay. Tunisia went down by four goals in losses to Sweden and Japan, while Panama were beaten 1-0 by Ghana and Croatia.
Jordan are already mathematically guaranteed not to advance past the group stage. That leaves the remaining matches to sort out the final eliminations, with 16 nations due to be out by the end of the group stage and only the worst third-placed records still vulnerable once the bottom teams are removed.
What remains in play
The headline for Haiti is simple: their campaign is finished, and the tournament moves on without them. For the other teams still in Group C and the rest of the field, the next results will decide who survives the first cut and who joins Haiti on the way out.
