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FIFA World Cup 2026: Fox Sports Sets Full TV Schedule With 40 Games In Primetime

U.S. President Donald Trump, Claudia Sheinbaum, President of Mexico, and Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, stand on stage with Gianni Infantino, President of FIFA, for the draw during the FIFA World Cup 2026 Official Draw at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on December 5, 2025 in Washington, DC.
The scene at the FIFA World Cup 2026 Official Draw in Washington, D.C. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

UPDATED with TV schedule: The U.S. will open the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Los Angeles against Paraguay, just one of the many storylines to come out of the tournament’s official draw revealed in December during a pomp-and-circumstance-filled ceremony at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

The tournament will officially kick off June 11 in Mexico City with Mexico playing South Africa in a Group A match. The U.S. opens June 12 against Paraguay in a Group D match at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium.

The final is July 19 at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.

The U.S., Canada and Mexico are co-hosts of the record 48-team tournament, which will see a total of 104 games across 16 host cities across the three countries across 39 days.

Broadcast plans

Fox and Telemundo hold U.S. TV rights, with Fox Sports planning 340 hours of first-run programming including a record 70-matches presented the Fox network television — more than double the matches from 2022. All games will air live across either Fox or FS1 (which has 34 games), including 40 in primetime, with every match streaming live and on-demand on Fox One and the Fox Sports App.

Beginning on the Fourth of July with the Round of 16, every match through the end of the tournament will air of Fox.

Fox’s FIFA World Cup Live daily pregame show will air between Fox and FS1 daily throughout the tournament, as will FIFA World Cup Today, featuring pre-and-post match insights and analysis.

In addition, Fox Corp sibling ad-supported streamer Tubi will simulcast live in 4K for free the World Cup’s opening ceremonies as well as two matches, Mexico-South Africa on June 11 and U.S.-Paraguay on June 12.

As for Spanish-language Telemundo, it will broadcast all 104 matches live, with 92 on Telemundo and 12 on Universo. Every match will stream live on Peacock and the Telemundo app.

Scroll down the full TV schedule and keep checking back as more details are added.

Groups set

The U.S. appeared to secure a good group in December; in addition to Paraguay, it will play Australia as well as the winner of a next March’s playoff that will determine the fourth team between Türkiye, Romania, Slovakia and Kosovo. The U.S.-Australia match will be June 19 in Seattle, and the final group game is June 25 back in L.A.

Other notable groups and matchups include first-round games pitting England and Croatia in Group L, France and Senegal in Group I, and defending champion Argentina opening against Algeria in Group J. Spain, the No. 1-ranked team in the FIFA standings, will open against Cape Verde, a tiny African archipelago making its first appearance int the world’s most popular sports tourney.

See the full group schedules and the dates for the knockout rounds below.

The draw event was chock-full of A-list performers fitting for its performing arts venue, with Kevin Hart and Heidi Klum serving as hosts, and musical numbers from Andrea Bocelli to Lauryn Hill, a duet from Robbie Williams and Nicole Scherzinger and “YMCA” from the Village People.

Of course, the site being D.C. politics also was a part of the proceedings, with Donald Trump on hand to receive the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize and join in the early part of the draw that saw the host countries get assigned their groups. Mexico president Claudia Sheinbaum and Canada PM Mark Carney also participated.

RELATED: Donald Trump, As Expected, Awarded New FIFA Peace Prize At World Cup Draw

As for the draw, below are the 12 groups, with Team 1 playing Team 2 and Team 3 playing Team 4 in their respective openers of the round-robin round. The top two teams in each group advance along with select third-place teams.

Below is the group and knockout schedules. Keep checking back as we update with more info.

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  • Anonymous

    Yeah nah its a hard pass. Who wants the US pretend its welcoming to foreign countries right now!? Come on..

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  • TK-421

    The whole ceremony was embarrassingly bad. It just went on and on and on. We don’t want to listen to a bunch of has-been artists. We want to see the World Cup draw.

    And let’s not even get started about the worst part of the ceremony. You know which one.

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