Senegal national football team, African champions, ready to make a thrilling World Cup, according to Romelu Lukaku. The club has won the CAN twice and shows a regularity that places it among the serious outsiders. The 2026 World Cup, scheduled from June 11 to July 19 in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, will be the fourth participation of Senegal after 2002, 2018, and 2022. Under the direction of their technical staff, the Lions will approach this challenge with strong ambitions, backed by their qualification and their consolidated status among the best African nations. The challenge is expected to be tough. Senegal will play in a particularly dense group, where it will face France, Norway, led by a promising generation, and Iraq, which is returning to the world stage after a long absence. Between international recognition and high expectations, Senegal arrives at the 2026 World Cup with an assumed status: that of an outsider capable of shaking up established hierarchies.