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r/worldcup

FIFA World Cup. The internet's home for the FIFA World Cup, including match threads, news, discussion, and more! Founded 2009 · 1.2M members

1.2M members. The best post we have captured here reached 29.6K upvotes, which works out to 25 per 1,000 members.

25peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.2Mmembers
29.6Kbest post
18.9Kmost comments
102posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

40% 32% 17% 8%
Image 40% Video 32% Link 17% Text 8% Gallery 2% Question 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

📰News 21 💬Discussion 19 📺Watch 17 :Worldcup:World Cup 5 :Portugal: Portugal 3 :chat: 3 :Argentina: Argentina 3 :England: England 2 :USA: USA 2 :Japan: Japan 2

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

This guy bought 32 beers from the 32 countries participating in World Cup 2018. Every time a country is eliminated, he drinks its beer.

↑ 29.6K 💬 1.3K image 2018

Ecuador fans put an Ecuador shirt on the Rocky statue in Philly

↑ 28K 💬 1.4K image 2026

Egypt Team Manager Hossam Hassan After The Game: "We had a goal disallowed, a goal was ruled out and I completely don't know why it was disallowed! T…

↑ 26.8K 💬 5.8K video 2026

alcohol ban wasn't a bad decision after all, was it?

↑ 26.8K 💬 3.3K image 2022

Thank you Argentina and France For giving us the best final game in a long time.

↑ 25.1K 💬 2.2K text 2022

Croatia waiting for our silver boys. We are very very proud. ❤

↑ 24.9K 💬 359 image 2018

USA is the first team to be knocked out of the round of 16, losing 3-1 to the Netherlands.

↑ 21.5K 💬 4.6K image 2022

Thomas Tuchel on the World Cup 3rd place game against France: "None of our players and none of the French players want to play this match.

↑ 18.9K 💬 6.1K link 2026

Erling Haaland says he is impressed by USA hosting: “Everything with the World Cup so far has been amazing, from the games to stadiums to training gr…

↑ 17.4K 💬 4.8K link 2026

Mexico's first goal was not offside (Rules Explanation)

↑ 17.2K 💬 3.8K image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/worldcup, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/worldcup?
r/worldcup ("FIFA World Cup") describes itself this way: The internet's home for the FIFA World Cup, including match threads, news, discussion, and more. It was founded in 2009 and has 1.2M members.
How many members does r/worldcup have?
r/worldcup has about 1.2M members. ViralHunt has tracked 102 of its posts; the biggest reached 29.6K upvotes, which is 25 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/worldcup?
"This guy bought 32 beers from the 32 countries participating in World Cup 2018. Every time a country is eliminated, he drinks its beer." reached 29.6K upvotes and 1.3K comments in 2018, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/worldcup.
What subreddits are similar to r/worldcup?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/illinois, r/PastAndPresentPics, r/alberta.
What kind of posts do best on r/worldcup?
Of the posts we hold, 40% are image posts and 32% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/worldcup?
Across 102 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 21:00 UTC (13.3K avg upvotes), Monday at 14:00 UTC (6.9K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/worldcup?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/worldcup has 12.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 1 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/worldcup, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.