Out · Round of 32South Africa at World Cup 2026
Knocked out at Round of 32 — how their tournament played out
Bawler's full forecast for South Africa at the 2026 FIFA World Cup — placed in Group A alongside Mexico, South Korea, and Czech Republic. Derived from 10,000 simulations of the entire tournament, updated each morning and cryptographically anchored to Bitcoin before kickoff.
Tournament path
South Africa's path to the trophy
Probability South Africa reaches each stage of the tournament, across 10,000 simulated tournaments.
Group A
Group A forecast
Top two from this group advance directly. The eight best third-placed teams across all 12 groups also progress to the Round of 32.
| Team | FIFA | Top 2 | R16 | QF | SF | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Mexico | #18 | 60.0% | 100.0% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
 Czech Republic | #33 | 55.2% | 61.9% | 43.8% | 24.7% | 3.67% |
 South Korea | #23 | 54.7% | 61.0% | 44.6% | 26.4% | 4.93% |
| South Africa | #58 | 30.2% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.00% |
Fixtures
South Africa's World Cup fixtures
4 matches — Bawler published a prediction for each.
Trust = math
Why this forecast is honest
Every morning at 07:30 UK we take a provisional snapshot of the day's predictions and publish a SHA-256 fingerprint of it to the Bitcoin blockchain via OpenTimestamps. Each prediction is then locked and anchored per fixture at lineup confirmation, around 75 minutes before kickoff. The proof lands publicly before the match kicks off, and anyone can independently verify, offline, that the numbers above weren't edited after results came in.
See /verify for the proof files, a 30-second verification walkthrough, and an explanation of why no prediction site that edits its history could fake this if they tried.