Sport
FIFA Under-17 World Cup to kick off in Qatar despite US withdrawal
- Newsrooms
- 9
- Last 3 hours
- 1 report
- Momentum
- Steady
2 in the 3 before
Cooling
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 9 to 10 newsrooms by 8:04am AEDT. Calls like this were right 93% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 96% of the past week’s 4118 stories, and number 8 of 1060 in Sport.Related
(shares U-17 World and U.S Soccer)
1FIFA says its 'security assessments' for the 48-team tournament remain unchanged after US Soccer pulled out.
In Al Jazeera’s words.2
Background: FIFA U-17 World Cup
The FIFA U-17 World Cup, founded as the FIFA U-16 World Championship, later changed to U-17 in 1991 and to its current name in 2007, is the annual world championship of association football for male players with the age of up to 17 organized by Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). The reigning champions are Portugal, who won their first title at the 2025 tournament.3
The story so far
9 newsroomsCooling- Reports
- 9
- Newsrooms and sources
- 9
- Last 3 hours
- 1
Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (1 in the last three hours, 2 in the three before).
First with it: Africanews, 4 hr 15 min before anyone else.
Reported by 9 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
- Newsrooms
- 9
- Over
- 21.1 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 4.6 hr
Newsrooms on it each counted once
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Thu, 12 Nov, 2:52am AEDT | Africanews | 1 |
| Thu, 12 Nov, 7:07am AEDT | The Athletic | 2 |
| Thu, 12 Nov, 7:26am AEDT | Independent Journal Review | 3 |
| Thu, 12 Nov, 7:39am AEDT | Yahoo Sports | 4 |
| Thu, 12 Nov, 8:54am AEDT | The Guardian | 5 |
| Thu, 12 Nov, 1:07pm AEDT | Just the News | 6 |
| Thu, 12 Nov, 8:38pm AEDT | The Independent | 7 |
| Thu, 12 Nov, 10:00pm AEDT | ABC News | 8 |
| Thu, 12 Nov, 11:57pm AEDT | Al Jazeera | 9 |
The Guardian
Africanews
The Independent
ABC News
Just the News
Independent Journal Review
The Athletic
Yahoo Sports
Africanews
The Athletic
Independent Journal Review
Yahoo Sports
The Guardian
Just the News
The Independent
ABC News
Al Jazeera