FIFA 2026 World Cup mascots exposed: 3 mascots consist of bald eagle Clutch, jaguar Zayu and moose Maple

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Next year’s World Cup will have 3 mascots, a bald eagle Clutch in the U.S., a jaguar Zayu in Mexico and a moose Maple in Canada.

FIFA made its statement on Thursday (September 25, 2025) in a press release, less than 9 months before the June 11 opener of the competition, the very first World Cup to be played in 3 countries.

For the 1994 World Cup in the U.S., organizers exposed a pet called Striker as the mascot throughout a press conference in October 1992 at Hollywood’s Mann Chinese Theater. A name-the-mascot project consisted of more than 25,000 entries.

Past World Cup mascots likewise consisted of a lion Willie (England 1966), a young boy Juanito (Mexico 1970), 2 kids Tip and Tap (West Germany 1974), a kid Gauchito (Argentina 1978), an orange Naranjito (Spain 1982), a jalapeño pepper Pique (Mexico 1986), a stick figure Ciao (Italy 1990), a cockerel Footix (France 1998), futuristic animals 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 drifting keffiyeh La’eeb (Qatar 2022).