When will the USA win the world cup?

Not for a good while yet as European and South American countries are very strong. We have the historical pedigree and the football culture, and I don’t mean that as a window dressing comment.  

Young lads are brought up with football and are brought up being inspired by it and wanting to become professionals.  We also have the ready-made infrastructure for them to move into when they do become professional. 

In the USA, there are NFL, baseball and basketball to compete with and one of these will always be the sport which young Americans are inspired by, rather than football.  These sports have the exposure to win young minds over, and the infrastructure for them to move into - much more than football does. 

2026 will be a good chance to win

When Argentina, Brazil, England, France will not be as strong as they are right now.

The USA wins a world cup when can have high-quality technical players at the world level.

When the USA will start caring about it...

The team is slowly improving. The current team are much better than the USA team before 1994 world cup. They need to establish themself to be among the elite team in football. Only time will decide when they can win the world cup.

They have a talent gap right now.  If the younger, mainly European based, players continue to develop and stay healthy and new talent emerges, then they have a chance to do well in 2026.  More likely we're talking 2030 as the best case though.

Of course, with the format changing we'll have to wait and see what that means.  Less chance for error and more chance for luck in the early rounds for sure.  

Start treating football/soccer with the same importance as basketball, track and field, NFL etc, only then they might have a chance.

The Women's team has won it, but I can't see the men's team winning it in the near future. Some countries that are far better than the USA such as Portugal, Holland or Belgium have never won it.

when they host in 2026