The report says one early breakout came from France, with a chant-led formula built around player roll calls and a beat designed to stick quickly. That template appears to have travelled fast.
That matters because fan music has never really needed subtlety. It needs to be sung in groups, clipped into videos and blasted out before kick-off. In that sense, AI may simply be giving supporters a faster tool for an old football habit.
The bigger argument is not whether these songs are catchy. It is who owns the ingredients. Guilherme Maia, speaking in the report, put it plainly: “In music, there are clear rules. You can't just copy someone else's work or use samples without permission, even if AI is involved.”
That is the pressure point. If AI tools are trained on protected material, then the football anthem becomes part of a much wider creative dispute over authorship, credit and payment. Football may be supplying the stage, but the legal fight is far bigger than a tournament soundtrack.
There are limits. The report suggests some tracks have sounded awkward, with accents or pronunciations that do not fit the team they are meant to represent. Palamara also argued that AI music can miss texture, arriving too neatly packaged.
Even so, supporters may not care. Ahead of next month’s World Cup, the real question is whether governing bodies and rights holders try to catch up - or whether the unofficial soundtrack keeps outrunning the official one.