World Cup 2026: What time can fans in Europe, Middle East and Africa watch?

Are you a shot instrumentality successful Europe, Africa oregon the Middle East? Scroll down to find retired World Cup timings successful your region.

With FIFA World Cup 2026 matches dispersed crossed the United States, Mexico and Canada, the kickoff timings volition alteration importantly during the June 11-July 19 tournament.

Held successful 16 venues successful 16 cities, matches volition beryllium played crossed 4 clip zones successful North America:

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• Eastern Time (GMT-4)
• Central Time (GMT-5)
• Mountain Time (GMT-6)
• Pacific Time (GMT-7)

As a result, the 2026 World Cup volition person 13 antithetic kickoff times. You tin usage the Al Jazeera Sport widget to find retired precisely erstwhile your squad is playing successful your section time.

What clip are World Cup matches successful Europe?

Fans successful Europe person to brace themselves for precocious nights oregon aboriginal mornings, astatine slightest for the opening 2 and a fractional weeks of the tournament.

World Cup matches footwear disconnected arsenic aboriginal arsenic midnight for fans successful the United Kingdom, oregon astatine 1am successful Germany, Spain, France, Switzerland and the Netherlands, among others.

There are besides matches that statesman astatine 3am BST/4am CEST, and 5am BST/6am CEST.

As galore arsenic 35 group-stage matches – astir fractional of the opening circular – footwear disconnected betwixt midnight and 5am successful the UK.

Some of the knockout-round matches are besides not astatine favourable timings, but European viewers volition beryllium relieved to cognize the semifinals and last are astatine 8pm BST/9pm CEST.

Sixteen European teams, including pre-tournament favourites Spain, France and England, volition play astatine the World Cup.

England are 1 of the pre-tournament favourites to assistance the World Cup, according to bookmakers [File: Andrew Boyers/Reuters]

What clip volition the World Cup beryllium successful the Middle East?

The bulk of the World Cup matches volition beryllium betwixt 10pm and 7am Qatar time, oregon 11pm and 8am United Arab Emirates time. Some matches commencement during the premier clip slot of 7-10pm successful the Middle East.

The semifinals and the last volition footwear disconnected astatine 10pm section successful Qatar oregon 11pm successful the UAE.

Four teams from the Middle East are playing astatine the World Cup: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Jordan.

Qatar, the back-to-back Asian champions, are playing astatine the World Cup connected merit for the archetypal clip [Ibraheem Al Omari/Reuters]

What clip are World Cup matches successful Africa?

For the archetypal time, a grounds 10 African teams volition beryllium astatine the World Cup.

Fans successful North Africa, including World Cup-bound Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, tin ticker astir of the World Cup matches betwixt 8pm and 5am. The semifinals and last are scheduled for an 8pm kickoff.

In South Africa, games are betwixt 9pm and 6am, portion viewers successful Senegal and Ghana tin drawback astir of the enactment betwixt 7pm and 4am.

Morocco made past astatine the 2022 World Cup by becoming the archetypal African federation to scope the semifinals [File: Paul Ellis/AFP]

The FIFA World Cup 2026 volition instrumentality spot crossed the United States, Canada and Mexico from June 11 to July 19, with 48 teams playing 104 matches successful the largest tourney successful history. Use the Al Jazeera Sport widget to find retired precisely erstwhile your squad is playing successful your section time.