Regarding the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar, Opta has made a lot of predictions about who could win the World Cup or who has the most chances of cracking it. Using the Artificial intelligence World Cup model, South American countries have emerged as the favourites as well as the nations with the most chances to win.
Brazil has been predicted to top the list of favourites and lift the World Cup trophy for the sixth time in football history. Brazil has already won five World Cup titles breaking the record of winning most titles.
Opta has predicted the chances of every major country participating in the Qatar World Cup winning. Though Brazil tops the list of favourites, France, Argentina and England have also quite good chances to win.
Well, Brazil and Argentina are at the top of the list, but how are England and Wales going to perform? To make it more clear, the Artificial intelligence Prediction model has estimated the probability of each country winning the 2022 World Cup using the previous stats, odds and team’s rankings in terms of performance.
These factors that the Prediction model considers are based on the historical and recent performances of the team. Then it considers the team’s strength, weakness and their way of tackling the situations, composition of the groups and seedings into the knockouts in order to estimate the probable chances of that team winning the World Cup 2022. 
Nations’ probability to win World Cup 2022
As I told you earlier, Opta has facilitated the chances of every major country winning the World Cup 2022. This is going to be the 22nd World Cup tournament in history since 1930 when it was introduced. The 2022 World Cup will see 32 teams contesting for the trophy.
The tournament will run for 28 days starting from November 20 and ending on December 18. A total of 64 matches will be played in eight different stadiums of Qatar out of which seven were recently built keeping the World Cup in mind as a major goal.
Opta has predicted the probability of each nation to reach Quarter-final, Semi final, Final and becoming the winner. Here is a list of nations with their chances to win the tournament.
| Country | Final (%) | Winner (%) |
| Brazil | 25.3 | 15.8 |
| Argentina | 21.1 | 12.6 |
| France | 21.9 | 12.2 |
| Spain | 17.4 | 9.1 |
| England | 17 | 8.7 |
| Germany | 15.4 | 7.8 |
| Netherlands | 14 | 7.2 |
| Portugal | 12.2 | 5.8 |
| Belgium | 11.3 | 5.4 |
| Denmark | 8.5 | 3.5 |
| Croatia | 4.6 | 1.8 |
| Uruguay | 4.5 | 1.6 |
| Switzerland | 3.1 | 1.1 |
| Senegal | 2.7 | 0.9 |
| Mexico | 2.8 | 0.9 |
| Serbia | 2.5 | 0.8 |
As you can see in the table, Brazil emerges with the most probability of winning the 2022 world cup. The five times winner is prepared to record its sixth victory two decades later. The South American nation has almost 16% more chances of winning the tournament this year than anyone. South American countries have made it to the list of favorites one after one. Messi’s home country Argentina also ranks second after Brazil with the app. 13% chances of receiving a championship. Argentina has the second most probability of lifting the trophy in the 2022 World Cup.
Can England win the World Cup 2022?
Now after taking the list into account, it is clear that England is one of the top favorites in the Qatar World Cup, ranking 5 after Brazil, Argentina, France (12%) and Spain (9%). England’s probability (9%) of winning the World Cup is almost equivalent to Spain’s.
Without taking so much time, let’s jump directly to England and Wales ‘ chances to lift the gold trophy. Do you know why we are talking about both England and Wales together? Because since 1998, it’s the first time the United Kingdom will be represented by two nation States – England and Wales. Both of these countries are drawn together in Group B.
According to the Opta Prediction model, England has 60% chances of topping the group of favorites ranking fifth in the list. And it has 9% chances of overall winning the tournament. While the country is expected to make it to the quarter finals with 56% chances – the third highest percentage chance of any country at the world cup.
Britain is the one who actually shaped modern football and yet, here it is. Though it introduced the game, its performance in the World Cups are always worth watching. Both the British teams are supposed to make it to the knockout stage. Wales has 17% chances of making it to the quarter finals while 0.6% chances of lifting the World Cup trophy.
England: Father of Football
The first Professional football league was founded in England in 1888. Football is the most popular and most watched sport on this planet. Since the introduction of ball games, football has been developing constantly. In the 20th century, several forms of football came to be introduced and gained a lot of popularity including American football.
The football you see today is Modern football with modernised rules and methods. Modern football was invented by British resident William Gilbert in England who instituted the first codified set of rules in 1867.
The football association was founded in 1863 which introduced the new codified set of rules of football. It also organised and controlled the international tournaments before the establishment of FIFA in 1904. The word association means a group of people with the same interest who work together to achieve their United goals. It can be in any field to manage things including sports, business, social campaigns, etc.
If we look back in the 1800s, football was not a popular sport of England while it was the one to invent Modern football. The early versions of the game were a lot different than the game you see today. These were more fierce, aggressive and dangerous. Also it was more like Rugby. All of these games were considered synonyms. In 1866, Sir Frederick Alymer, 2nd Baronet of, adopted these rules of British Rugby in the University of Cambridge. This event was then followed by the creation of a new differentiated sport called Rugby Football.
