Next 12 months’s World Cup could have three mascots, a bald eagle Clutch within the U.S., a jaguar Zayu in Mexico and a moose Maple in Canada.
FIFA made its announcement on Thursday (September 25, 2025) in a information launch, lower than 9 months earlier than the June 11 opener of the event, the primary World Cup to be performed in three nations.
For the 1994 World Cup within the U.S., organizers revealed a canine named Striker because the mascot throughout a information convention in October 1992 at Hollywood’s Mann Chinese Theater. A reputation-the-mascot marketing campaign included greater than 25,000 entries.
Past World Cup mascots additionally included a lion Willie (England 1966), a boy Juanito (Mexico 1970), two boys Tip and Tap (West Germany 1974), a boy Gauchito (Argentina 1978), an orange Naranjito (Spain 1982), a jalapeño pepper Pique (Mexico 1986), a stick determine Ciao (Italy 1990), a cockerel Footix (France 1998), futuristic creatures Ato, Kaz and Nik (Japan and South Korea 2002), a lion Goleo VI and a soccer ball Pille (Germany 2006), a leopard Zakumi (South Africa 2010), an armadillo Fuleco (Brazil 2014), a wolf Zabivaka (Russia 2018) and a floating keffiyeh La’eeb (Qatar 2022).
