According to OpenAI, there have been 17 million ChatGPT prompts related to the World Cup 2026 so far. Whether you're looking for answers about teams, players, qualifications, match times, results or records, AI can be a surprisingly useful World Cup 2026 companion.
That got me thinking about some prompts you could use to make watching the World Cup even better, so here are my top five. You can use these with any AI chatbot, but I've used ChatGPT in my examples.
1. Create a printable fact sheet
There is no shortage of statistics in soccer, and when it comes to predicting the outcome of a match, having key information about each team's strikers close at hand can be incredibly useful. To make that happen, try this prompt:
"Create a printable factsheet comparing strikers across all teams based on xG and SOT."
In soccer, xG stands for Expected Goals, a statistical measure of the likelihood that a particular shot will result in a goal. SOT stands for Shots on Target, another key performance metric.
I put this prompt into ChatGPT and it produced a clean, printable one-page guide with everything I needed to feel better informed before kick-off.
2. Host a match-day BBQ
It's match day, and your friends are coming over. The BBQ is ready to go, but you've just discovered that one of them is bringing their vegan partner and now you need some menu ideas. Try this:
"Create a menu for a vegan BBQ footy party. Also, tell me where to buy the ingredients locally."
For a World Cup final crowd, the combination of vegan burgers, sausages, corn on the cob, potato salad and grilled pineapple that ChatGPT suggested would probably get me through the evening with almost nobody feeling like they're eating 'vegan food' rather than just good BBQ food.
3. Plan my travel so I'm home for every kick-off
Being stuck at work while your team is playing is never ideal. What you need is a planner that tells you exactly when to leave work — or wherever you happen to be — so you can get home in time.
Try this prompt:
"Plan my travel so I'm home for every kick-off of a [my team] game."
You'll get a personalized itinerary showing when you need to leave, your expected travel time, and exactly when you'll arrive home — before the match begins.
4. Watch the games without losing sleep
The World Cup is a global event, which means many fans will be watching matches at some pretty inconvenient hours. AI can help you work out how to catch the games you care about without completely wrecking your sleep schedule.
Try this:
"Make a sleep schedule so I can catch the late games for [team name], but still show up fresh for work."
ChatGPT suggested when I should eat dinner, stop drinking caffeine and put my phone down for the night. It even advised me to skip the post-match analysis, so I wouldn't end up staying awake for a lot longer than planned.
5. Stay calm during penalty shootouts
Penalty shootouts are almost inevitable at some stage of a World Cup, and if your team ends up in one, the stress levels can become unbearable.
Try asking AI this:
"Got any tips for keeping me calm during injury time, extra time and penalties?"
ChatGPT actually gave me some very British advice: keep calm and carry on. I particularly liked what it said about injury time:
"When the board goes up and it says +8, remember:
Nobody knows why it's +8.
The referee doesn't know why it's +8.
FIFA doesn't know why it's +8.
The game will actually last +11 anyway."
It then reminded me to sit down, take a sip of whatever I was drinking, and repeat the mantra:
"If my team scores, I'll be happy. If they concede, there's nothing I can do about it."
Those are words to live by.
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