The 2026 World Cup is the largest broadcast event in the history of the sport — 104 matches, up from 64, played across 16 stadiums in the United States, Mexico, and Canada between June 11 and July 19. For the first time in a generation, most of the matches kick off in American prime viewing hours instead of at dawn. Here is how to watch all of it.
United States — English
FOX holds the English-language rights. Marquee matches — the opener, the USMNT group stage, the semifinals, and the final — air on the FOX broadcast network, with the full tournament spread across FOX and FS1. If you have an antenna, a cable package, or a live-TV streaming service that carries FOX (YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV, Fubo, DirecTV Stream), you have the tournament.
The headline for cord-cutters: Tubi, FOX's free streaming service, carries the tournament at no cost — no subscription, no login wall. A free, legal stream of a World Cup is genuinely new territory for American soccer broadcasting.
United States — Spanish
Telemundo holds the Spanish-language rights, with matches across Telemundo and Universo and streaming on Peacock. If the 2022 cycle is the guide, the Spanish-language broadcast is frequently the better watch regardless of which language you live in — the commentary carries the occasion.
Canada
Bell Media carries the tournament on TSN and CTV in English and RDS in French. Canada's group-stage matches — the first the country has hosted — anchor the schedule in Toronto and Vancouver.
Mexico
Televisa and TV Azteca split coverage on free-to-air television, as they have for every World Cup in living memory. The opener at the Estadio Azteca on June 11 — Mexico vs South Africa — will be the most-watched television event in the country's history if precedent holds.
When matches kick off
The group stage runs June 11–27 with up to four matches a day. Because every venue sits between the Eastern and Pacific time zones, the daily rhythm for US viewers is simple: early-afternoon, late-afternoon, and evening kickoffs ET, with almost nothing before noon. The knockout rounds — a new Round of 32 from June 28, the Round of 16 from July 4, quarterfinals July 9–11, semifinals July 14–15 in Dallas and Atlanta, and the final on July 19 at MetLife Stadium — settle into one-to-three matches a day.
Every match, kickoff time, and venue is in the full GoalPost schedule, and every match page carries our pre-match intelligence — win probabilities, verified claims, and predicted lineups — before kickoff.
Watching in person, or almost
If you are in a host city without a ticket, the official FIFA Fan Festivals run in all 16 host cities with big screens and free entry. And if you would rather watch with a crowd than a couch, our fan homes directory covers 95 supporter bars across 29 cities — including dedicated guides for the best World Cup bars in Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Monterrey.
GoalPost tracks every match of the 2026 World Cup live — scores, lineups, momentum, and the intelligence layer — at the World Cup hub.