2026 World Cup Watch

We are a group of scholars, activists, and critical journalists tracking the impacts of the World Cup and other mega events on cities across the world. Collectively, we have decades of experience researching and working with communities to understand and collaboratively document how mega events dispossess people of their homes, over-police whole communities, exacerbate climate change and environmental harm, gentrify neighbourhoods, and exploit workers.

World Cup Watch is an emergent collective of community-based academics, organizers, and community members critically interrogating the impacts of FIFA on host cities and building a virtual archive/platform for communities to share resources, document harms, and coordinate collective action.  If you, too, are concerned about FWC26-related harms in your community and share our commitments, we invite you to contribute to the communal platform through grounded insights, research, and organizing efforts across a range of formats, including short or long-form written pieces (blog posts, essays, reflections); interviews with organizers, workers, or community members; maps (GIS-based or otherwise) documenting spatial and infrastructural impacts; visual materials (photography, illustrations, data visualizations, artwork, memes); and/or audio or video projects. Check out our Call for Contributions and Collaborations here!