Simple commands to help you follow the 2026 World Cup in a smarter way.

According to OpenAI, there have been 17 million ChatGPT questions related to the 2026 World Cup to date. Whether you're looking for answers about teams, players, qualifiers, match schedules, results, or records, artificial intelligence can be a helpful companion during the 2026 World Cup.

You can get suggestions from ChatGPT to make watching the World Cup more enjoyable ; here are some suggested commands.

Create a printable statistics table.

In football, there's no shortage of statistics, and when it comes to predicting the outcome of a match, having crucial information about each team's forwards can be incredibly helpful. To do that, try this suggestion:

Create a printable statistics table comparing the forwards of all teams based on xG and SOT.

ChatGPT created a clear, printable, one-page guide containing everything I needed to feel better informed before the match began.

Organize a party with friends to watch football.

Today is the match day, and watching football with friends is always fun. The BBQ is ready, but you just found out that one of them is vegetarian, and now you need some menu ideas. Try this:

Please create a vegetarian menu for a BBQ party while watching football with friends. Also, please let me know where I can buy the ingredients nearby.

For the crowd watching the World Cup final, the combination of vegetarian burgers, sausages, boiled corn, potato salad, and grilled pineapple suggested by ChatGPT will likely provide a fun evening where almost no one feels like they're eating 'vegetarian food' but rather delicious BBQ.

Plan your travel so you'll be home on time for the match to start.

Being stuck at the office while your favorite team is playing is frustrating, right? What you need is a planning tool that tells you exactly when to leave the office or anywhere else so you can get home on time.

Plan my travel so I'll be home in time for the start of a match featuring (team name).

You will receive a personalized schedule, including your departure time, estimated travel time, and exactly when you will arrive home before the match begins.

Watch the matches without losing sleep.

The World Cup is a globally captivating sporting event, meaning many fans will have to watch matches at rather inconvenient times. Artificial intelligence (AI) can help you plan your viewing of your favorite matches without completely disrupting your sleep schedule.

Try this command:

I've created a sleep schedule so I can watch late-night [team name] games, but still arrive at work feeling refreshed.

ChatGPT will offer specific suggestions on when to eat dinner, how to stop drinking caffeine, how to put down your phone before bed, and much more.

Stay calm when your favorite team takes a penalty shootout.

Penalty shootouts are almost unavoidable at some point in the World Cup, and if your team has to go to a penalty shootout, the tension can be high.

Try asking the AI ​​this:

1. Are there any tips to help me stay calm during injury time, extra time, and penalty shootouts?
2. ChatGPT can offer practical, even humorous, advice, for example:
3. When the electronic display shows +8, remember:
4. Nobody knows why it's +8.
5. The referee didn't know why it was +8.
6. FIFA doesn't know why it's +8.
7. The actual match will only last an additional 11 minutes.
8. Then, it prompts the user to sit down, take a sip of their drink, and repeat the mantra:
9. If team . scores, that's great. If they concede, there's nothing you can do.

Those are words worth remembering.