Fox releases World Cup broadcast schedule, will set report for video games on community TV

Fox Sports will air a report 70 FIFA World Cup video games on community tv, together with each sport from the spherical of 16 by way of to the ultimate, a robust dedication for the 2026 event, which will probably be co-hosted by the U.S., Mexico and Canada.

The 70 video games to be aired on Fox doubles the 35 aired on community tv in the course of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Most notably, Fox will put extra knockout video games on community TV than it did in Qatar, when it aired six round-of-16 video games on its principal broadcast community. All however two knockout video games will air on community tv. (Two round-of-32 video games will air on FS1.)

All 104 video games of the biggest-ever World Cup — 48 groups will compete on this model, a rise from 32 in 2022 — will air on both Fox or FS1. All three U.S. males’s nationwide workforce group stage video games will air on Fox.

“FIFA is putting on the biggest World Cup in history, and Fox Sports is living up to that standard,” Fox CEO and Fox Sports government producer Eric Shanks stated. “Our broadcast schedule affirms Fox is truly going to be America’s home for the beautiful game over a span of 39 incredible days. We look forward to bringing the country together for its 250th birthday with all the world here for the greatest event on the planet.”

The summer season will probably be dominated by soccer, with video games spanning greater than a month.

Among the group stage highlights on Fox will probably be a tripleheader on June 16 that includes three of the competitors’s prime stars, with Kylian Mbappé and France taking up African Cup of Nations champion Senegal; adopted by Erling Haaland and Norway in opposition to the winner of a FIFA playoff; and concluding with Lionel Messi and defending World Cup champion Argentina taking up Algeria.

Erling Haaland’s Norway will probably be a part of a blockbuster schedule on June 16. (Marco Iacobucci / SOPA Images / LightRocket by way of Getty Images)

There is one notable group stage sport that can air on FS1: Brazil vs. Morocco on June 13.

With sport occasions set for a worldwide viewers, protection will sometimes start within the late morning or early afternoon Eastern Time and run by way of the evening. That consists of FIFA World Cup Live exhibits on Fox and World Cup Today on Fox and FS1.

The World Cup ultimate will air on Fox on Sunday, July 19 at 3 p.m. ET. Live protection will start at 12 p.m. ET with a three-hour version of FIFA World Cup Live adopted by a one-hour postgame present.

For the primary time ever, Fox can even air a simulcast on its streaming service, Tubi, for each the opening ceremonies and two matches: The event’s opening sport of Mexico in opposition to South Africa on June 11 and the U.S.’s opening sport in opposition to Paraguay on June 12.

The full broadcast schedule might be discovered here.