Every match moves the market. Be the one who saw it coming.

Cupital turns the 2026 World Cup into a live market. Every one of the 48 teams has its own price — and that price comes from one thing only: players buying and selling. No bookmaker, no algorithm deciding what a team is "worth". A team wins and fans pile in, the price climbs. They limp out of contention, it slides. Your job is simple: read the tournament better than the crowd, and trade on it.

Every team has an order book

A price doesn't come from nowhere — it comes from an order book. Picture two queues for each team:

• Buyers (bids) — highest price first. What people will pay.
• Sellers (asks) — lowest price first. What people will take.

The moment a buyer's price meets a seller's, they shake hands and a trade goes through. That price becomes the team's new live price, and every portfolio re-values on the spot. That's the whole engine: you and everyone else, meeting in the middle.

Buy now — or name your price

Tap a team, pick Buy or Sell, and choose how you want in:

• Market order — the default. Trade right now at the best price on the book. One tap and you're in — the simplest way to back a hunch the moment you have it. You see the estimated cost before you confirm, and a price band keeps any single trade from running away.
• Limit order — your price, your patience. Name the number and wait. Buy France at €40. Sell Brazil at €120. It rests in the queue and fills only at your price or better — never worse. For when you want control instead of speed.

No fees either way, and you can cancel a resting order any time. New to this? Start with market orders — they just work.

Floors and a ceiling keep it honest

One bad group game shouldn't wipe a team to zero — so every team has a price floor, its buyback value (the financial term is redemption value): what a share is guaranteed to be worth if the run ends right there. It rises the deeper the team goes:

Every figure here is play money — no real cash ever changes hands.

The winner's value, €400, is also the hard ceiling — no team trades above what a champion pays out, no matter how much hype piles in. Floors reward the run; the ceiling keeps it a game of skill, not a stampede.

Advance, and your value locks in

Advancing doesn't drop a bonus in your lap — it does something better: the team's buyback value rises, so your shares are guaranteed to be worth more, and the market almost always re-prices them higher on the spot. Back a dark horse early and every round it survives, your position is worth more. You bank it by selling into the rally — or hold and let it ride toward the €400 top.

That's the whole skill: the reward is in the price, not a handout. Read the run, ride it up, and get out before the crowd does.

Knocked out, paid at your level

If a team goes out, you're not left holding dust. Every share is bought back automatically at that team's buyback value — the floor of the round it reached (€25 out of the group, up to €300 for a beaten finalist). It's a fixed number set by how far the team got, not by the last panicky trade — so nobody can dump the price and dodge. Hold a champion all the way and you bank the top of the ladder: €400 a share. You can't trade a team once it's out, but you never lose your stake to dust.

What it comes down to

• Your edge is your read. Spot the underpriced contender, time the knockout run, sell before the bubble pops — that's the whole game.
• Nobody can buy an advantage. Everyone trades the same market with the same information — your read is the only edge there is.
• Nothing real is on the line. Every euro is play money. No deposit, no risk — so you can learn how a real market behaves without losing a cent.

It's the safest place there is to build genuine market instinct: order books, spreads, timing an exit — the same mechanics professionals use, wrapped in a tournament you already love.

Ready? Sign up — you'll start with €200,000 and 100 shares in every team.