World Cup 2026: England and Scotland find out World Cup kick-off times
The match venues and kick-off times for the tournament were confirmed one day after the draw for the group stage took place in Washington DC on Friday.
The first 48-team World Cup will be held in Canada, Mexico and the United States between 11 June and 19 July 2026.
Mexico will take on South Africa at Mexico City’s historic Estadio Azteca in the opening match of the expanded tournament, during which 104 matches will be played in 39 days.
That game – a repeat of the first match at the 2010 World Cup – will kick off at 19:00 BST on Thursday, 11 June.
The World Cup final at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey will kick-off at 20:00 BST on 19 July.
The semi-finals, hosted in Dallas and Atlanta, will also begin at 20:00 BST.
The final match schedule will be confirmed in March, following the conclusion of the Fifa and Uefa play-off tournaments to decide the final six places.
The tournament will be hosted across 16 cities, spanning four time zones and three countries, at locations up to 2,800 miles apart.
Fifa president Gianni Infantino was joined by Brazil’s two-time World Cup winner Ronaldo, Italy’s 2006 winner Francesco Totti, Bulgaria’s World Cup 1994 Golden Boot winner Hristo Stoichkov and former United States centre-back Alexi Lalas to unveil the schedule on Saturday.
