2024 Kings World Cup

The 2024 Kings World Cup was the inaugural edition of the Kings World Cup, 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.

Background

On 7 November 2023, a new tournament was announced, tentatively named the Kings League World Cup. It was announced as featuring 20 teams from the Kings League, with 10 teams from Spain and 10 from the Americas, along with teams from other countries, totaling 32 teams. It was held in Mexico from 26 May to 8 June 2024.
Following the announcement, it was confirmed that former Sweden striker Zlatan Ibrahimović would preside over the competition.

Slot Allocation

;Direct entrants

Kings League Spain : 8 teams
Kings League Americas : 8 teams
Wildcards : 12 teams
Redemption Game winners : 4 teams

;Redemption Game entrants

Kings League Spain : 4 teams
Kings League Americas : 4 teams

Format

The Kings World Cup is being contested with some features of a Swiss-system tournament, and structured as follows:
;Redemption Game

In the Redemption round, the bottom 4 teams from Kings League Spain & Kings League Americas play against each other for the final 4 spots to the Kings World Cup

;First stage

In the first round, the 32 teams each play one match, with the pairings decided by an open 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.

;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.

Teams

Kings League

President: Gerard Piqué

Team

Chairperson

Qualified via

Américas Kings League

President: Miguel Layún

Team

Chairperson

Qualified via

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 Islands ninth and All-Stars series.
; 1K FC
Manager: Pol Coma
; Aniquiladores FC
Manager: Sergio Verdirame
; Club de Cuervos
Manager: Jacques Passy
; Deptostra FC
Manager: Rocky Peeters
; FIVE FC
Manager: Dean Saunders
; Foot2Rue
Manager: Saïd Dorbani
; Furia FC
Manager: Dudu Oliveira
; G3X FC
Manager: Víctor Taube
; Galácticos del Caribe
Manager: Lucas Ayala
; Jijantes FC
Manager: Pau Moral
; Kunisports
Manager: Martín Posse
; Limon FC
Manager: Burak Kaymak
; Los Aliens 1021
Manager: Efraín Velarde
; Los Troncos FC
Manager: Èric Bartra
; Medallo City
Manager: Jason Murray
; Muchachos FC
Manager: Ricardo La Volpe
; Murash FC
Manager: Tatsuro Inui
; Olimpo United
Manager: Alejandro Castro
; Peluche Caligari
Manager: Ángel Reyna
; Persas FC
Manager: Víctor Chaires
; PIO FC
Manager: Arnau Jariod
; Porcinos FC
Manager: Nacho Castro
; Raniza FC
Manager: Severo Meza
; Real Titán
Manager: Pol Font
; Saiyans FC
Manager: Daniel Romo
; Stallions
Manager: Luca Diddi
; SXB FC
Manager: Abdullah Al-Shehri
; UA Steel
Manager: Valeriy Fedorchuk
; Ultimate Móstoles
Manager: Álex Martínez
; West Santos FC
Manager: Gabriel España
; xBuyer Team
Manager: Víctor González
; Youniors FC
Manager:' Damir Agovic

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:

Country or region	Broadcaster	Matches shown
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan	Setanta Sports	All
Belgium and Portugal	DAZN	All
Brazil	Desimpedidos Camisa21	All
Catalonia	3Cat	All
France	M6+	All
Ghana and Nigeria	SportyTV	All
Hungary	RTL+	Round of 16 onwards
Israel	OneSport	All
Italy	Sportitalia	All
Mexico	Canal 6	All
Netherlands	RTL Nederland Videoland	All
Norway	VG	All
Philippines	TAP TV	All
Russia	OKKO	All
Sweden	Sportbladet	All
Turkey	Acun Medya Exxen	All
West and Central Africa	Moov TV	All

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 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

League

Team

Chairperson

Spain

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First Stage

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

Team

Qualified via