Fox Sports plans to significantly increase its live coverage of the FIFA World Cup tournament as the 2026 edition of the world’s most-watched sport arrives next summer.
Fox has committed to showing all 104 games of the five-week tournament live on its Fox broadcast network and cable station FS1. All games will also be streamed live on the Fox One streaming platform and the Fox Sports app. The tournament will run from June 11th to July 19th and will be held in 16 host cities across the United States, Mexico, and Canada, including Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, and San Francisco.
“Fox Sports’ presentation of the 26th FIFA World Cup will be the largest production in our 32-year history, and we couldn’t be more excited to bring this once-in-a-lifetime event to life with more matches than ever before,” said Eric Shanks, CEO and Executive Producer of Fox Sports. “The biggest World Cup in history means this will be a TV event like no other, with more teams, superstars, storylines and moments that will captivate audiences around the world.”
Fox will provide a total of 340 hours of World Cup-related programming during the tournament, 100 more hours than it produced for the last World Cup in 2022. The 2026 round marks the sixth time that Fox Sports will be the exclusive English-language television rights provider for World Cup coverage in the U.S. NBCUniversal’s Telemundo holds the Spanish-language rights in the U.S.
Group stage games for the U.S. Men’s National Team will be held on June 12th (Los Angeles), Friday, June 19th (Seattle), and Thursday, June 25th (Los Angeles). The complete broadcast schedule will be announced after the 26th FIFA World Cup Final Draw and will be broadcast live on FOX from the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, on December 5th.
(Photo: Chelsea FC players celebrate during the FIFA Club World Cup final against Paris Saint-Germain at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on July 13)
